SDRs [ˏesˏdi:'ɑ:z]
[复] n.特别提款权(国际货币基金组织的成员国政府之间用于结算国际收支的一种新的国际清偿手段储备)
- The Finance Ministry said Japan's reserves of gold, convertible foreign currencies and special drawing rights (SDRs) grew $3.44 billion in December to $81.48 billion.
- He also favoured increased access to the systemic transformation facility, a loan facility designed for former communist countries. On SDRs, two options were being discussed.
- The current price level is slightly over 1,430 SDRs.
- New SDRs would not be inflationary in today's economic environment, he says. Unfortunately, a general SDR increase would benefit wealthy industrialised countries more than the disadvantaged.
- SDRs are distributed in proportion to a country's contribution to the fund.
- Ministers had agreed an increase in the 1980s when inflation was higher. The share of SDRs in total world reserves had fallen from about 5 per cent in the early 1980s to below 2 per cent.
- SDRs were initially issued to all IMF members in 1970 according to the size of their holdings in the Fund.
- But the index has declined 8% in U.S. dollars and 4.6% in SDRs since January.
- But just as the future course of global inflation will not be altered by a phased Dollars 23bn increase in SDRs, nor will such an injection alter the fact that net saving rates in Europe and elsewhere are currently too low.