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On 1 January 1981 some changes were made in the procedures for valuing special drawing rights and for calculating the interest payable on them. This article describes these changes and some other recent developments, including the wider use of special drawing rights in official transactions and as a numeraire for private sector borrowing and lending.
Special drawing rights further developments