For example, over the past seven years, the share of the euro in the stock of international debt  1  If we include the countries of the CFA Franc Zone in Western Africa, this number rises to 40 countries which the IMF classifies as having exchange rate regimes that either use the euro as sole reference currency or as part of a currency basket.
Sarah Bloom Raskin: Monetary policy and job creation Speech by Ms Sarah Bloom Raskin, Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the University of Maryland Smith School of Business Distinguished Speaker Series, Washington DC, 26 September 2011.