The presumption was that the outcome of such a process almost surely would be a managing director from an emerging-market country. After all, the IMF’s main responsibility is to fight crises, most of which have been in developing countries – more than a hundred since the disastrous policies of financial deregulation and liberalization began some 30 years ago.
最终在对美国引发的大萧条的反思中，一个新秩序似乎正逐渐浮现，20国集团（G20）同意（或者设想）下一任IMF领导人将通过公开透明的方式选出。有人推测说这一程序将催生一位来自新兴市场国家的总裁。毕竟IMF的主要任务就是应对危机，而大部分危机都发生在发展中国家——自从在30多年前启动取消金融管制和经济自由化的乱政后已经有超过100个国家遇险，并因此涌现出许多风云人物。