摘要：With its prestige seriously affected after its role in Asia and Argentina, discredited as a result of the persistent global instability and with diminishing financial resources as a result of the decision of various countries to pay their debts before they were due, the International Monetary Fund is facing a severe crisis. As a solution, there are those who suggest new cosmetics, while others simply recommend its abolition. This article resumes these two arguments before presenting, in greater detail, two other proposals: one that suggests that its basic function of coordinating policies should be regionalized, and remain in the hands of regional agencies; the other stresses the need for a profound reform, in order to make it more democratic, more transparent and more responsive to the needs of the less-developed countries.
