IMF總裁建議新全球貨幣：歐元區另一災難？

國際貨幣基金會總裁建議新的全球貨幣：歐元區另一災難在形成？
IMF head proposes new global currency: another eurozone disaster in the making?
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國際貨幣基金會總裁建議新的儲備貨幣
Head of IMF Proposes New Reserve Currency

國際貨幣基金組會的斯特勞斯卡恩提議，國際貨幣基金會可能有一天提供全球儲備資產
IMF's Strauss-Kahn suggests IMF may one day provide global reserve asset

By HARRY DUNPHY Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON February 26, 2010 (AP)

The Associated Press

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund, suggested Friday the organization might one day be called on to provide countries with a global reserve currency that would serve as an alternative to the U.S. dollar.
國際貨幣基金會總裁多米尼克斯特勞斯卡恩週五建議，組織可能有一天會被要求，向各國提供一種全球性儲備貨幣，將作為美的副選。
"That day has not yet come, but I think it is intellectually healthy to explore these kinds of ideas now," he said in a speech on the future mandate of the 186-nation Washington-based lending organization.
“這一天尚未到來，但我想現在這是智力上地健康的來探討這些種類的想法，”他在一篇關於以華盛頓作基地的186個國家的貸款組織的將來任務的講話中說。
Strauss-Kahn said such an asset could be similar to but distinctly different from the IMF's special drawing rights, or SDRs, the accounting unit that countries use to hold funds within the IMF. It is based on a basket of major currencies.
斯特勞斯卡恩說，這樣的一件資產可能是相似，但明顯與國際貨幣基金組織的特別提款權(SDRs)是不同的，它是各國使用來在IMF內持有基金的會計單位，它是建基於一籃子主要貨幣。
He said having other alternatives to the dollar "would limit the extent to which the international monetary system as a whole depends on the policies and conditions of a single, albeit dominant, country."
他說美元外有其它的選擇，“將限制那程度國際貨幣體系作為一個整體，要倚賴政策和條件來自單一的國家，雖然主導。”
Strauss-Kahn, a former finance minister of France, said that during the recent global financial crisis, the dollar "played its role as a safe haven" asset, and the current international monetary system demonstrated resilience.

"The challenge ahead is to find ways to limit the tension arising from the high demand for precautionary reserves on the one hand and the narrow supply of reserves on the other," he said.

Several countries, including China and Russia, have called for an alternative to the dollar as a reserve currency and have suggested using the IMF's internal accounting unit.
幾個國家包括中國和俄羅斯，已呼龥一個選擇替代美元作為儲備貨幣，並已提議使用IMF的內部核算單位。
Strauss-Kahn said the IMF also needs to do a better job of tracing how risk percolates through the global economy.

"Here it will be essential to improve our ability to monitor several dozen large complex financial institutions that make up the `plumbing' through which global capital flows," he said, while leaving national regulators the job of monitoring the solvency of individual institutions.

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