The IMF’s ability to give powerful advice to the most important countries, such as the UK, was enhanced by these countries’ dependence on IMF resources. It was the IMF’s financial power that gave it its bite, and that power was enhanced by Fund borrowing, at first from the G-10, which established the General Arrangements to Borrow.
IMF向如英国等最重要的国家提出强有力的建议的能力由于这些国家对其资源的依赖性而进一步增强。IMF的影响力来自其金融实力，而这种实力的增强得益于其借款能力。起初是向设立了《借款总安排》的十国集团借款。