Dollarizing...

Grant Lee grantlee at iinet.net.au
Mon Feb 18 18:11:19 PST 2002


|| The only other country that I can think of which uses another country's

|| currency as its official currency is Kirabati, which relies on the

|| Australian dollar. Does anyone know of other cases in the

|| post-WWII era?


> Sure, Kosovo. It's switching from the Mark to the Euro now.

Quite a few of the Pacific Islands use the USD, AUD or NZD. Check out the notes at the bottom of http://www.1728.com/Currency.htm for a comprehensive list. Note that some of these are still colonies/territories and the list is obviously pre-Euro.



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