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Within the emerging markets, there has been a gradual realization, particularly as barriers to trade and capital have come down, that fixed or pegged exchange rate regimes may no longer be appropriate in an economic world dominated by high capital mobility. Furthermore, there has been an equal realization that exchange rate pegs of one type [...]

The discipline of floating exchange rates is quite different to that of a pegged exchange rate system. No longer is the exchange rate itself the anchor of monetary credibility. Instead, the conventional wisdom has moved towards inflation targeting through interest rate policy as the anchor of monetary credibility. As a result, the emphasis has shifted [...]