Commission on Growth and Development has several working papers which could serve as a basis for a paper. You may choose to focus on
- Exchange Rate Economics by John Williamson.
- The Real Exchange Rate and Economic Growth by Barry Eichengreen.
- Normalizing Industrial Policy by Dani Rodrik.
- Growth Strategies and Dynamics by Mohamed El-Erian and Michael Spence.
- Finance, Financial Sector Policies and Long-Run Growth by Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine
- International Finance and Growth in Developing Countries by Maurice Obstfeld
- Macroeconomic Policy: Does it Matter for Growth? by Antonio Fatas and Ivan Mihov
- A New Bretton Woods? by Raghuram Rajan.
- Eight Reasons We Are Given Not to Worry About the U.S. Deficits by Jeffrey Frankel.
- Growth After the Crisis by Dani Rodrik
An alternative (or complement) is to do a detailed country study: Go to the working papers page of the Commission on Growth and Development for many good introductions, but you should also use some of the Country Reports of the International Monetary Fund
Yet a third possibility (again, which may be combined with one of the other choices), is to base or complement your work with a detailed review of one of the books below:
- Barry Eichengreen, Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar
- Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System
- Barry Eichengreen, Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods
- Barry Eichengreen, Golden Fetters
- Paul Blustein, The Chastening (IMF and the Asian Crisis of 1997-8)
- Paul Blustein, And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out) (Argentina)
- Michael Mussa, Argentina and the Fund
- Joseph Stiglitz, The Stiglitz Report: Reforming the International Monetary and Financial Systems
- Destler,I.M. Dollar Politics
- Wolf, Martin Fixing Global Finance
- Corden, Max Too Sensational: On the Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes