The essential agreement was to establish a [[gold]] standard for the world's leading currencies. Each industrialized nation would adopt a monetary policy to maintain the exchange rate of its currency within a fixed value relative to [[gold]], plus or minus one percent. The role of the IMF was to handle temporary imbalances of payments between nations. | The essential agreement was to establish a [[gold]] standard for the world's leading currencies. Each industrialized nation would adopt a monetary policy to maintain the exchange rate of its currency within a fixed value relative to [[gold]], plus or minus one percent. The role of the IMF was to handle temporary imbalances of payments between nations. |