As Franklin D. Roosevelt said at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, where the IMF and the World Bank were established, “Economic diseases are highly communicable. It follows, therefore, that the economic health of every country is a proper matter of concern to all its neighbors, near and distant.”
很容易误解IMF是干什么的。它的大部分努力是为了防止危机。富兰克林·罗斯福在IMF和世界银行宣布成立的1944年布雷顿森林会议上说，“经济病很容易传染。因此，每个国家的经济健康都应该得到其远近邻邦的恰当的关注。”