The US Dollar as a Prerequisite for the Crisis Potential of the Global Monetary and Financial System

The crisis of the global monetary and financial system based on the US dollar has been the focus of attention of the international academic community for a long time. At the same time, modern research does not sufficiently present a comprehensive approach to studying the causes and consequences of the dysfunctionality of the current international monetary standard. The purpose of the paper is to systematize the cause-and-effect relationships of the crisis potential of the global monetary and financial system based on the US dollar as the key reserve currency. Methods of scientific abstraction, system analysis and logical generalization were used. Factors characterizing the crisis potential of the global monetary and financial system are identified: reproduction of global imbalances, chronic capital outflow from countries of the global periphery, growth of global debt and inflation, rupture of global chains and neoprotectionism, destabilization of markets for fuel, raw materials and food products. According to the author, the conservatism of the current international currency standard is due to the lack of real alternatives to the US dollar as international liquidity due to the US control of key institutions and mechanisms of the global financial market. The restrained attitude of the United States towards the need to introduce advanced digital technologies in the sphere of monetary circulation and reluctance to participate in the transformation of the global monetary and financial system reduces the chances of its qualitative reform. It is concluded that the main impulses for the de-dollarization of the global monetary and financial system should be the coordinated demands of the IMF member countries to restore the system of multilateral settlements using a wide range of national currencies; large-scale diversification of their investment portfolios by including emerging market assets; coordinated actions of the BRICS+ countries to create innovative mechanisms for international payments based on modern digital technologies.

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