The IMF’s crisis-prevention efforts begin with its country surveillance, as provided for by Article IV of its Articles of Agreement. The problem with these exercises is that they are regularly relegated to the “duly noted” bin: governments receive them, file them away, and go back to doing what they were doing before.
IMF的危机预防机制，第一个环节是国情监测，其依据是IMF协定第四条款。在实践中却存在一个问题，条约中的要求往往被贴上“充分注意”的标签束之高阁：各国政府接受归接受，传达归传达，回头还是依然故我。