Many people have forgotten that the Fund was originally conceived as a cooperative – it bailed out England only a few decades ago, and almost had to bail out France. People forget these episodes because the Fund’s resources have not kept pace with the explosion of global capital markets so that today, the IMF lacks the capacity to bail out an Italy or a Japan (though the issue may well arise one day.)
许多人已经忘记IMF建立的初衷是一个合作组织—就在数十年以前，它还救英国于危难之中，并几乎要对法国实施救援。人们之所以会忘记这些事件，是因为IMF的资源没有与全球资本市场的爆炸性增长同步增加，所以时至今日，IMF已没有能力对意大利或日本这样的国家实施援助（虽然这样的情况可能会发生）。因此，如果要IMF恢复其建立之初的合作组织的性质，它就有必要转移工作重心。