<Tr> <Td> Special drawing rights standard </Td> <Td> SDR </Td> <Td> US, G - 20, IMF </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Gold standard </Td> <Td> Gold, dollar </Td> <Td> US </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Delhi Declaration </Td> <Td> Currency basket </Td> <Td> BRICS </Td> </Tr> <P> March 2009 saw Gordon Brown continuing to advocate for reform and the granting of extended powers to international financial institutions like the IMF at the April G20 summit in London, and was said to have president Obama's support . Also during March 2009, in a speech entitled Reform the International Monetary System, Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People's Bank of China came out in favour of Keynes's idea of a centrally managed global reserve currency . Dr Zhou argued that it was unfortunate that part of the reason for the Bretton Woods system breaking down was the failure to adopt Keynes's bancor . Dr Zhou said that national currencies were unsuitable for use as global reserve currencies as a result of the Triffin dilemma--the difficulty faced by reserve currency issuers in trying to simultaneously achieve their domestic monetary policy goals and meet other countries' demand for reserve currency . Dr Zhou proposed a gradual move towards increased use of IMF special drawing rights (SDRs) as a centrally managed global reserve currency His proposal attracted much international attention . In a November 2009 article published in Foreign Affairs magazine, economist C. Fred Bergsten argued that Dr Zhou's suggestion or a similar change to the international monetary system would be in the United States' best interests as well as the rest of the world's . </P>

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