NEW YORK – For those of us who have long claimed that the world’s international financial architecture needed deep reform, the call for a “Bretton Woods II” is welcome. Of course, similar calls were made after the Asian and Russian crises of 1997-1998, but were not taken seriously by the rich industrial countries.
纽约－对我们当中长期以来声称国际金融体系需要进行深刻改革的人来说，布雷顿森林体系II的倡议是很受欢迎的。当然，在1997年到1998年的亚洲和俄罗斯危机以后，有人提出了类似的倡议，但是这些倡议都没有得到富裕工业国家的认真对待。当前，这些富裕的工业国家处在金融风暴的中心地带，或许它们现在会对这个倡议认真起来。