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After the revaluation of the Zimbabwean dollar on 1 August 2006, [46] the dong became the least valued currency unit for months. Around 21 March 2007, the revalued Zimbabwean dollar regained least valued currency status (in terms of black market exchange rate), and on 7 September 2007 in terms of official exchange rate.
In monetary economics, redenomination is the process of changing the face value of banknotes and coins in circulation.It may be done because inflation has made the currency unit so small that only large denominations of the currency are in circulation.
In 1953, 10, 20 and 50 su coins were introduced. In 1960, 1 đồng were added, followed by 10 đồng in 1964, 5 đồng in 1966 and 20 đồng in 1968. 50 đồng were minted dated 1975 but they were never shipped to Vietnam due to the fall of the South Vietnamese government.
Revaluation is a change in a price of a good or product, or especially of a currency, in which case it is specifically an official rise of the value of the currency in relation to a foreign currency in a fixed exchange rate system. In contrast, a devaluation is an official reduction in the value of the currency.
On 29 January 2009, the Zimbabwean government legalised the use of foreign currencies, such as the United States dollar and the South African rand.In response, Zimbabweans quickly abandoned the old Zimbabwean dollar, which was collapsing from what was at the time the second-highest ever rate of hyperinflation in the world (after the Hungarian pengő in 1946).
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Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega, who made headlines when he raised the alarm about a currency war in September 2010. Currency war, also known as competitive devaluations, is a condition in international affairs where countries seek to gain a trade advantage over other countries by causing the exchange rate of their currency to fall in relation to other currencies.
An undervalued currency causes serious problems and raises international criticism. Prominent economists including World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy, [13] U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, [14] Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman, [15] Director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics Fred Bergsten, [16] and Cornell University Professor Eswar Prasad [17 ...