摘要
Providing a financial lifeline to a string of crisis-hit countries such as Iceland and Ukraine,the International Monetary Fund(IMF) has played a positive role in cushioning the growth-retarding shock emanating from the United States. Moreover,the finance ministers of the G20 countries recently agreed to increase their funding for and push for the restructuring of the organization at their meeting in Horsham in Britain on March 14. YiXianrong,a researcher at the Institute of Finance and Banking under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,discussed this topic in an article published in the Oriental Morning Post Edited excerpts follow:
