Argentina provides a recent example of a currency board success

Indicate whether the statement is true or false


FALSE
Explanation: The Argentinean currency board experiment was a failure, as the country could not maintain the peg and the Argentinean peso devalued to less than a third of its value in late 2001, early 2002

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As it relates to the political process, the principal-agent problem results from the:

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