Title: The countries that don't have a currency of their own — Quartz
Headings: Here are all the countries that don’t have a currency of their own
Here are all the countries that don’t have a currency of their own
Countries that only use a foreign currency
Euro: Andorra, Kosovo, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino, Vatican City.
Countries in a currency union
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Content: The US dollar is the most widely used currency in the world, with many countries employing it as an accepted alternative to their own currency. But some have simply adopted the currency as their own, notes and all, in what is known as “dollarization.” They don’t have control over the currency—only the Federal Reserve in Washington sets monetary policy. Both Ecuador and El Salvador adopted the US dollar in 2000, following the creation of free-trade blocs like NAFTA and the EU and the debut of the euro, making even the notion of a “ single currency for the hemisphere more plausible and attractive .” Reuters
Ecuadoreans were in a rush to trade sucres for dollars when dollarization was announced. “For Ecuador, adopting the dollar was a way of imposing strict fiscal discipline, in effect by turning monetary policy over to the United States Federal Reserve Board,” the New York Times reported in 2001. Defenders of dollarization in El Salvador have said it helped to prevent economic crises and attacks from speculators that have befallen countries like Mexico and Argentina—though the cost of converting from the colon to the dollar resulted in prices being round up by fractions of a dollar, creating rising costs for the poorest Salvadorans. And is the Federal Reserve going to think about El Salvador when it slashes interest rates to near zero in the aftermath of an economic crisis and starts printing money? As we saw in 2008 and beyond: Not really, no.