U .S . balance-of-payments deficits and accompanying breakdown of the Bretton Woods exchange-rate arrangements in the early 1970s and the second , accompanying the huge increases in oil prices in 1973 and 1974 with the resulting enormous balance-of-payments surpluses for Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC ) and the corresponding deficits for most oil-importing countries . Over the 1970-1972 period , international reserves created by the official intervention of surplus countries grew by roughly as much as they had in the whole preceding part of...











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