“…Combined with the call for a price rise to compensate for past depreciation, there have sometimes been proposals for indexing the price of oil to the rate of inflation of the reserve currencythe US dollar; to a 'basket' of currencies; to Special Drawing Rights (SDRs); or to the index of imported price inflation on commodities for OPEC. Askari and Salehizadeh conclude that the most advantageous method seems to be an index based on the weighted dollar export prices of OPEC's major trading partners (Askari and Salehizadeh,9). Amuzegar does not come to any clear conclusion but accepts that some new basis is necessary, with a greater stability than the present system (Amuzegar,8).…”