雅典—IMF终于承认它严重低估了紧缩给欧盟增长率带来的伤害，这表明纠正2008—2009年金融危机后发生的债务危机的根源的“正统”药方起到了弄巧成拙的效果。
ATHENS – The International Monetary Fund’s belated admission that it significantly underestimated the damage that austerity would do to European Union growth rates highlights the self-defeating character of “orthodox” recipes to address the causes of the debt crisis that followed the financial crash of 2008-2009.