IMF's firepower insufficient to respond to major new crisis: BIS head - Reuters
PARIS (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund does not have sufficient lending capacity to respond if a major new emerging market crisis affecting several countries erupted, the head of the Bank for International Settlements said on Thursday.
BIS general manager Agustin Carstens, a former head of the Bank of Mexico, said that last reviews of IMF quotas, how much member countries pay in and the voting rights that go with that, had failed to ensure it had sufficient financial resources.
“This leaves us with the problem of having inadequate resources and having to improvise in times of crisis. The mission of the fund is there,” Carstens told a conference at the French central bank.
“If the Fund cannot do it others will have to do it otherwise the economic costs will be huge,” he added.
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BIS Başkanı: "Gelişmekte olan ülkelerde yeni bir kriz çıkarsa, IMF'nin yardım yapacak parası kalmadı. IMF yardım edemezse başkaları yardım etsin, yoksa dünya batar!"
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