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IMF放弃反对资本管制立场

The International Monetary Fund has cemented a substantial ideological shift by accepting the use of direct controls to calm volatile cross-border capital flows, as employed by emerging market countries in recent years.

国际货币基金组织(IMF)接受了以直接管制来平复动荡不定的跨境资本流动的做法，此举标志着该组织在政策思想上发生重大转变。近些年来，新兴市场国家即施行了此类直接管制。

Although the fund continued to warn that such controls should be “targeted, transparent, and generally temporary, the policy, announced in a staff paper released yesterday, is a sharp change from the fund’s enthusiasm for liberalising capital accounts during the 1990s.

虽然IMF仍警告称，此类管制应当“有针对性、透明、并且一般来说是暂时性的，但昨日发布的一份IMF工作人员研究报告中表述的这一政策思想，相对于该组织在上世纪90年代积极倡导放开资本账户的做法已有了显著转变。

Economies including Brazil – which has fiercely criticised super-loose US monetary policy for fuelling speculative inflows to its asset markets – Thailand and South Korea have experimented with taxes, regulations and other restrictions on capital. The Brazilian representative at the IMF said the fund was still too cautious and regarded capital controls as a last resort rather than a standard part of the policy tool kit.