它行动快速地为那些采取“合情”政策的国家建立了迅捷支付的信贷急救最高限额；它热切地支持以世界国民生产总值2%来进行全球范围内的财政刺激 — — 考虑到该组织以往在所有财政问题上的保守态度，这种姿态是有些非同寻常的。
It moved quickly to establish a fast-disbursing emergency line of credit for countries with “reasonable” policies. It ardently championed global fiscal stimulus on the order of 2% of world GNP – a position that is all the more remarkable in view of its traditional conservatism on all fiscal matters.