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From Reserve Currencies to Reserves of Critical Goods: Designing a New BRICS International Currency

https://doi.org/10.21684/2412-2343-2020-7-4-67-84

Abstract

Currently, there is a need for reform of global monetary circulation and credit, which in a sense has stalled. The key is to restore the connection between monetary circulation and real production. In the first part of this study, I provide a brief analysis of the catastrophic consequences that the current design of reserve currencies has led to for the world economy. At the same time, the transition from the dollar to other reserve currencies operating on the same principles, the ethos of which is now being actively promoted in the West, will not improve the situation. In the second part, I demonstrate the efforts being made to de-dollarize settlements by both the BRICS, the EU, and the EAEU countries. The third part shows the successful historical experience of the transferable ruble as an international currency that functioned in 1960-1980 on non-discriminatory principles within the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA). In the fourth part, the international currencies already functioning in the world are described, as well as some existing proposals for the introduction of new international currencies. I argue that reliable physical access to reserves in basic food and medicines in controlled warehouses is becoming a matter of great importance. The transition is necessary from the ideology of reserve currencies to the ideology of reserves of critical goods. Such an incentive of a new BRICS currency on the demand side will be food and healthcare security. On the supply side, for all states that have established a currency, there should be a clear vision of how they can develop their exports using this currency. In order to secure currency, such goods must be pledged to international BRICS warehouses that correspond to the main export directions of the project countries and/or are critical for their import. These are basic foods such as grains, then medicines, fuel and energy resources, and metals.

About the Author

K. Molodyko
National Research University Higher School of Economics
Russian Federation

Kirill Molodyko - Associate Professor, HSE-Skolkovo Institute for Law and Development, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
11 Pokrovskiy Blvd., Moscow, 109028.



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Molodyko K. From Reserve Currencies to Reserves of Critical Goods: Designing a New BRICS International Currency. BRICS Law Journal. 2020;7(4):67-84. https://doi.org/10.21684/2412-2343-2020-7-4-67-84

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