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Official Discussant, Mr Graham Bird: The principal purpose of this brief paper is to consider the question of whether the developing countries would have been better off had the Keynes Plan been adopted at Bretton Woods rather than the less ambitious White Plan.
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Thirlwall, A.P. (1987). Discussion. In: Thirlwall, A.P. (eds) Keynes and Economic Development. Keynes Seminars. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08029-8_8
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