The first element of reform should be to give a greater role to the only true international money that the world now has: the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights, created in 1969 as the result of another dollar crisis. The establishment of SDRs was accompanied by a commitment, included in the IMF Articles of Agreement, to “making the special drawing right the principal reserve asset in the international monetary system” (Article VIII, Section 7 and Article XXII).
改革的第一要素应该是给予当今世界唯一真正的国际货币——始创于1969年美元危机后的IMF特别提款权（SDR）——更大的角色。SDR的创立伴随着一项承诺，并写入了IMF协定章程中：“让特别提款权成为国际货币体系的主要储备资产”（第八条第7款和第二十二条）。但这一承诺至今形同虚设，SDR只是在危机爆发时发放过几次，包括2009年所发放的相当于2500亿美元的SDR。