The International Monetary Fund is seeking commitments to boost its lending resources from $750bn to $1,000bn, to build safety nets that could prevent future financial crises.
Instead of responding solely to crises with conditional loan packages, the IMF wants financing agreed in advance and specially tailored to individual countries. The aim would be to cool market nervousness over any nation facing an imminent liquidity crunch.
“Even when not in a time of crisis, a big fund, likely to intervene massively, is something that can help prevent crises,” Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF managing director told the Financial Times.
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