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现在如何改革IMF

Apr 15, 2015 Paulo Nogueira Batista , Hector R. Torres

华盛顿—国际货币基金组织（IMF）绝大部分成员国同意改革方案已经过去了四年。这套方案将让IMF的资源扩大一倍，并以有利于发展中国家的方式重新组织其治理结构。但事实改革需要IMF成员国的批准；而尽管美国也投票支持改革措施，但总统奥巴马一直无法确保国会通过。现在，应该考虑换别的办法推进改革了。

美国的迟迟不作为反映了IMF的一个巨大退步。它正在进行决策过程的重组，以更好地反映发展中国家日益增加的重要性和活力。此外，改革问题悬而未决迫使IMF基本只能依靠成员国贷款而非新措施所要求的永久性资源。这些贷款原本只是改革实施前的过渡手段，每六个月就必须重新确认一次。

我们认为，最好的前进方式是将改革需要美国国会批准的部分与其他部分脱钩。只有一个重要要素——将执委会（Executive Board）改革委完全选举制的决定——需要IMF修订其章程，因而也需要国会批准。

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Paulo Nogueira Batista

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Paulo Nogueira Batista, Jr. is Executive Director at the IMF.

Hector R. Torres

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Hector R. Torres, a senior fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation’s International Law Research Program, was previously Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund and a staff member at the World Trade Organization.

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Brian ( yang guang ) Lansdowne Jun 15, 2015

Stop the USA from malplating the currency's of this planet . They Own The IMF , 20 trillion in debt , but they still have the number one currency in this world .
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John Brian Shannon Apr 20, 2015

Hi Paulo and Hector,

IMF reform is important, and that can be said in the same sentence as... the IMF has done amazing work in this world.

Yet any organization can and must continue to improve. The very essence of evolution.

How to do that?

It seems that so far there has been little success in this regards and I think I know why the present process has resulted in exactly zero success.

Maybe the thing to try, rather than the omnibus approach involving so much change, would have been a series of amendments -- much as the U.S. constitution began as one document but "with allowance for amendments from time to time in pursuit of a more perfect union."

Had the IMF employed such a process, I've no doubt the level of resistance would have been microscopic at each juncture and much more would've been accomplished by now. Perhaps ALL of the present changes suggested, and more!

By simply sending one amendment per 24 month period to the stakeholders for approval -- instead of the massive omnibus approach that has been employed -- the IMF would've by now, met all of its objectives and with precious little fanfare.

Sometimes the incremental approach is the way to go, and sometimes the omnibus approach is the way to go. It makes me wonder.

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Todd Clay Apr 18, 2015

So you want to reform it but allow the US to still control it - that's not a reform that's an end run that every other country would see right through.
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Todd Clay Apr 18, 2015

But the US doesn't want to give up it's power over the IMF that's why it's not getting reformed.
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Frans Verhagen Apr 16, 2015

The longer the US Congress is obstinate, the stronger the voices become who want another system. Among them are China’s AIID and similar Brics institutions. In last instance, we do not need two parallel system but cooperative global institutions. A proposal for such institutions is presented in Verhagen 2012 “The Tierra Solution: Resolving the climate crisis through monetary transformation” and updated at www.timun.net.
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hari naidu Apr 15, 2015

The US Senate just yesterday imposed their condition on Iran - P5+1 NPT negotiations. POTUS is bound to follow it and, if things go bad, the deal can be stopped ( ie. Bibi's?AIPAC strategy).

IMF reform is NOT going to get a faithful hearing in the Senate either. GOP will hold it up until 2016, if not longer.
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