The document is one of the strongest endorsements yet for a leading role in the crisis for the Washington-based IMF, long known as the international lender of last resort.

此次签署的协议是确定国际货币基金组织（国际最后手段的贷款人）在经济危机中发挥主要作用的最主要协议之一。

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But he does not believe that policy is impotent and he strongly supports central bank lender of last resort operations, if possible at an international level.

但他的确相信，政策对此无能为力，并强烈支持央行作为最终贷款人的操作，如有可能，最好在国际层面上进行。

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But you fail to mention the most important one of all: that a central bank of any country which has only variable access to international capital markets may have a problem in acting as a lender of last resort to its banking system.

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The International Monetary Fund is supposed to be the world's lender of last resort, but disturbing questions were being raised Tuesday about whether it had all the money it needed to help the world's most troubled economies in the wake of the subprime crisis.

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