作为一个二战后成立的组织，世界货币基金组织最初的作用是在一个固定汇率系统中资助各成员国之间的暂时不平衡，而自从1971年美元固定汇率系统终止之后，该组织也一直在找寻自身存在的意义。
Created after WWII to finance temporary imbalances of the members of a fixed-exchange rate system, the IMF has been in search of a cause since the demise of the dollar exchange-rate system in 1971.