Bretton Woods News

In 1977 Jamaica entered into a borrowing relationship with the International Monetary Fund for the first time.

The high-level UN conference on the global economic and financial crisis on Friday formally called on the United Nations to increase its role with international financial institutions in international economy and sought a review of those organizations' mandates and accords.

Developing nations' hopes for forging a new, more just economic world order appear unlikely to be quickly realized as the United Nations' Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis draws to a close Friday.

Bretton Woods Adaptive will host GlideCycle inventor David Vidmar for experiential opportunities at Bretton Woods/Mount Washington Resort from June 25-28. GlideCycle's virtually zero-impact ride provides long range mobility to individuals with permanent disabilities or injuries by allowing them to run or walk pain free within such conditions as: ...

Small business owners in the Twin Mountain-Bretton Woods area who depend on attracting locals, visiting condo owners and weekenders as well as tourists passing through, have had to make some adjustments to survive the woes of a shrinking national economy.

Mount Washington Resort, located in Bretton Woods, NH is pleased to announce the hiring of David Ousterhout as the Resort's new Golf Course Superintendent.

Father's Day in New Hampshire offers train rides, art, adventure, theatre, sporting excursions, a trip to the stars and more Michelle White, 224-5566, mw@lkarno.com Jayme Simoes, 224-5566, js@lkarno.com June 5, 2009 Concord - This Father's Day treat Dad to all that New Hampshire has to offer.

A report to be published in a month's time lambasts national recovery plans for failing to achieve global coordination of innovation policies to combat the recession.

Another Grand Adventure is opening up in Coos County, now branded as the land of "Grand Hotels: Grand Adventures." Greg Westcott of Lancaster has purchased a classic reproduction of the 1934-style WACO YMF5 biplane, built in 1991 by the Weaver Aircraft Company.

This is a guest post by Pedro Prieto from Madrid, Spain. He is the head of ASPO-Spain and organized the ASPO 7 conference in Barcelona last year.

The College's Panhellenic Council voted Monday night on whether to invite Kappa Delta sorority or Delta Zeta sorority to join Dartmouth's Greek system.

This weekend, finance officials and development NGOs from around the world will meet in Washington to discuss the worlda s most pressing economic issues, such as the distribution of a trillion dollars in aid promised to the International Monetary Fund by the G-20 countries a London meeting a few weeks ago.

UNITED NATIONS, April 15 -- In about six weeks, the UN General Assembly will kick off a summit meeting, which the president of the 192-member body has called "the most important in the history of the United Nations." Perhaps that remains to be seen, but the summit, slated for June 1-3, is on perhaps the biggest single issue to grip the world in ...

Sixty African students studying at some of the world's most prestigious universities converged in New Hampshire this weekend for the Harambe Endeavor's second annual Bretton Woods symposium, which focused on facilitating innovation and collaboration to address the issues faced by nations in sub-Saharan Africa.

Basic facts about the International Monetary Fund _ The IMF was conceived at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference in New Hampshire, where representatives of 45 countries agreed on a framework for economic cooperation to avoid a repeat of the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Details of an eventful first day on the world stage for President Obama: a Undeterred by a cold, Obama held a whirlwind of talks with world leaders, including Chinese President Hu Jintao.

Desperate but divided on ways to lift their nations from economic misery, world leaders converged for an emergency summit Tuesday holding scant hopes of finding a magic-bullet solution for the crisis that brought them hurrying to London.

The Associated Press= Widely dismissed as a marginal player six months ago, the International Monetary Fund had become the world's economic firefighter with no blazes to put out.

Friday, April 03, 2009 President Obama gave a masterful performance at the G20 Summit.

The IMF, also known as the fund, was conceived at a U.N. conference in Bretton Woods, N.H., in July 1944.