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122Dollarization: Is It Worth It? — ▪ 2002 Introduction by Guillermo A. Calvo By mid 2001 a number of Latin American countries had officially adopted the U.S. dollar as their currency. Ecuador replaced its sucre with the dollar in September 2000. On Jan. 1, 2001, El Salvador… …
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126United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
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