<p>I agree with the members that have voted to close, but I felt obliged to point out an important confusion in the question. The OP writes</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><em>"A single currency with an enforcing entity controlling entity could use this power to help countries in the desperate need to grow,... By
  retrieving in the form of taxes a percentage of each nation's Gross
  Domestic Product... and then redistributing this to each country, we
  would be in fact spreading resources from wealthy parts of the world
  to the poorest in a fair way."</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>It appears therefore that the OP focuses on issues of global income/wealth inequality, and he thinks that, under a common currency, redistribution would be easier... </p>

<p>...The OP fails to see that, <em>in order to have a global currency</em>, it would take a "geopolitical will" from the parties involved, which, if it existed, the contribution of a common currency as a "redistribution facilitator" would be negligible.  </p>

<p>One important reason of why we do not have a global common currency, has to do with the fact that we do not feel that much "connected", truly "parts of a single whole". Hence, wealth redistribution to the extent imagined by the OP <em>is not something universally desired</em>. Because if such a sense of being part of a single whole was the dominant flavor of human existence, the desire to redistribute would flow rather naturally from it, and then it could actually happen whether we had a common currency or not.</p>

<p>Now I am voting to close also.</p>

CC BY-SA 3.0
2015-05-05T09:27:32.473Z
Yes, in fact that was the point, thanks for noticing that out. And you're also right, I haven't considered that actually a minority of the population is concerned about wealth redistribution, not only it may not be interesting to a few. Good pointing out that this desire would flow naturally otherwise. Still, many rules that we are obligated to follow, enforced by law or society (in the sense that it isn't illegal but we still must follow) are not interesting for everyone or even to no-one, but we still must follow them.
Bruno Finger
CC BY-SA 3.0
2015-05-05T00:59:08.997Z
2015-05-05T00:59:08.997Z
Alecos Papadopoulos
<p>While every country has it's own political ideals, enforcing laws and rules, in an ever more globalized world, I believe the idea of fragmented economy is limiting big growth opportunities while creating a lot of unnecessary problems and bureaucracy around the world. So would changing to a globalized currency model be a good idea?</p>

<h2>The model</h2>

<p>A single currency would require an entiity whose would control it and be responsible for it. While we could create a new one, we might as well just use an already existing entity to be responsible for it, like the United Nations. Picking the UN to regulate this currency world wide (or at least to the big list of <a href="http://www.un.org/en/members/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">State nations that are part of it</a>), would give us the opportunity to add an extra layer to the government layers on top of the Nation layer, similar to what the European Union does.</p>

<p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/g0VbY.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>

<p>This would allow the United Nations not only to suggest rules, like the <a href="http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Human Rights</a>, but to enforce them as law to its member states.</p>

<h2>The need</h2>

<p>As mentioned before, we are living in a world more globalized every day. Some people work to different countries other than the ones they live in through the internet. This creates a currency exchange problem, where he is removing currency power from the country he's working for and giving it to the country he lives in, effectivelly lowering the first's value and raising the second's value. A single currency could solve this problem and also getting out of the way the whole exchange problem from the middle, and in some cases, the international bank transfer bureaucracy.</p>

<p>A single currency with an enforing entity controling entity could use this power to help countries in the desperate need to grow, I'm thinking about places like Zimbabwe, Niger and Ethiopia. By retrieving in the form of taxes a percentage of each nation's Gross Domestic Product (let's say, 3%?), summing it all up, then averaging it by the number of member states, and then redistributing this to each country, we would be in fact spreading resources from wealthy parts of the world to the poorest in a fair way. Everyone contributes as they can so a few gets back. To avoid countries which could use this system to just sit back doing nothing, waiting for the money to come in, their governments are obligated to use this money to invest in the country's industries (or whatever are the country's activities which make money)</p>

<p>Of course, this is just a simple idea which I didn't develop, it can have much more potential and bring it's own problems, that's why I'm posting it here, so we can discuss about them. Also I'm sorry for my weird english and terms used, it's not my main language and I'm not an economics student, but I hope it's understandable.</p>

CC BY-SA 3.0
2015-05-04T12:38:15.223Z
No, take a quick look at : http://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0310/one-world-one-currency-could-it-work.aspx for some of the major points. Monetary policy is a big deal to loose for a country.
Thorst
CC BY-SA 3.0
2015-05-04T15:32:51.760Z
I've answered a very similar question already under http://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/4951/what-would-happen-if-the-world-switched-to-a-single-currency/4955#4955 , hence I vote to close.
FooBar
CC BY-SA 3.0
2015-05-05T09:21:51.603Z
@Soccerman thanks, that's a very good article, put me in perspective of things I haven't though about.
Bruno Finger
<currency><money>
Would a world-wide currency be a good idea?
Bruno Finger
# Would a world-wide currency be a good idea?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-05-04)

While every country has it's own political ideals, enforcing laws and rules, in an ever more globalized world, I believe the idea of fragmented economy is limiting big growth opportunities while creating a lot of unnecessary problems and bureaucracy around the world. So would changing to a globalized currency model be a good idea?

## The model

A single currency would require an entiity whose would control it and be responsible for it. While we could create a new one, we might as well just use an already existing entity to be responsible for it, like the United Nations. Picking the UN to regulate this currency world wide (or at least to the big list of [State nations that are part of it](http://www.un.org/en/members/)), would give us the opportunity to add an extra layer to the government layers on top of the Nation layer, similar to what the European Union does.

![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/g0VbY.png)

This would allow the United Nations not only to suggest rules, like the [Human Rights](http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml), but to enforce them as law to its member states.

## The need

As mentioned before, we are living in a world more globalized every day. Some people work to different countries other than the ones they live in through the internet. This creates a currency exchange problem, where he is removing currency power from the country he's working for and giving it to the country he lives in, effectivelly lowering the first's value and raising the second's value. A single currency could solve this problem and also getting out of the way the whole exchange problem from the middle, and in some cases, the international bank transfer bureaucracy.

A single currency with an enforing entity controling entity could use this power to help countries in the desperate need to grow, I'm thinking about places like Zimbabwe, Niger and Ethiopia. By retrieving in the form of taxes a percentage of each nation's Gross Domestic Product (let's say, 3%?), summing it all up, then averaging it by the number of member states, and then redistributing this to each country, we would be in fact spreading resources from wealthy parts of the world to the poorest in a fair way. Everyone contributes as they can so a few gets back. To avoid countries which could use this system to just sit back doing nothing, waiting for the money to come in, their governments are obligated to use this money to invest in the country's industries (or whatever are the country's activities which make money)

Of course, this is just a simple idea which I didn't develop, it can have much more potential and bring it's own problems, that's why I'm posting it here, so we can discuss about them. Also I'm sorry for my weird english and terms used, it's not my main language and I'm not an economics student, but I hope it's understandable.

**Tags:** currency, money
> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: No, take a quick look at : http://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0310/one-world-one-currency-could-it-work.aspx for some of the major points. Monetary policy is a big deal to loose for a country.  
> **username_2**: I've answered a very similar question already under http://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/4951/what-would-happen-if-the-world-switched-to-a-single-currency/4955#4955 , hence I vote to close.  
> **username_0**: @Soccerman thanks, that's a very good article, put me in perspective of things I haven't though about.  

---

## 1 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2015-05-05. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

I agree with the members that have voted to close, but I felt obliged to point out an important confusion in the question. The OP writes

> *"A single currency with an enforcing entity controlling entity could use this power to help countries in the desperate need to grow,... By
> retrieving in the form of taxes a percentage of each nation's Gross
> Domestic Product... and then redistributing this to each country, we
> would be in fact spreading resources from wealthy parts of the world
> to the poorest in a fair way."*

It appears therefore that the OP focuses on issues of global income/wealth inequality, and he thinks that, under a common currency, redistribution would be easier...

...The OP fails to see that, *in order to have a global currency*, it would take a "geopolitical will" from the parties involved, which, if it existed, the contribution of a common currency as a "redistribution facilitator" would be negligible.

One important reason of why we do not have a global common currency, has to do with the fact that we do not feel that much "connected", truly "parts of a single whole". Hence, wealth redistribution to the extent imagined by the OP *is not something universally desired*. Because if such a sense of being part of a single whole was the dominant flavor of human existence, the desire to redistribute would flow rather naturally from it, and then it could actually happen whether we had a common currency or not.

Now I am voting to close also.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Yes, in fact that was the point, thanks for noticing that out. And you're also right, I haven't considered that actually a minority of the population is concerned about wealth redistribution, not only it may not be interesting to a few. Good pointing out that this desire would flow naturally otherwise. Still, many rules that we are obligated to follow, enforced by law or society (in the sense that it isn't illegal but we still must follow) are not interesting for everyone or even to no-one, but we still must follow them.  

---

