day - to lubricate trade without at the same time infusing instability by channelling the capital t speculative short-term investments. Second, the need for policies that will direct capital flows to long-term productive investments is underscored. This would require the restructuring of fragile domestic financial systems so that they ensure that prudential
supervision and corporate governance will avoid the pitfalls of investing in unviable projects. Third, macroeconomic restructuring to improve the absorptive capacity of long-term foreign investment needs to be addressed. Fourth, in view of the lack of financial, technical and legal expertise in developing Asia, these countries should harness the expertise of
the IMF to carry out the complex sequential financial reforms required to revitalise their fragile financial systems. These reforms in developing Asia will contribute to the establishment of a more robust global financial architecture. The new financial architecture will also require a reformed IMF that will engagein more effective use of its policy instruments of surveillance and conditionality. First, the IMF should be required to monitor information and engage in surveillance that will issue timely warnings to countries that are lunging towards a crisis. Second, the IMF should use its conditionality provisions in giving out loans to ensure more effective implementation of the reform of fragile financial systems and the restructuring of the economies, thereby ensuring that foreign borrowings pass the test of prudential supervision and can be absorbed effectively by the recipient economy implementing these reforms. Third, the IMF should play a more effective role in regulating capital flows either through proper advocacy 20 or through the amendment of Article 6 of the Charter, giving the IMF a jurisdictional role credibly regulating capital flows.21 In a world of capital hypermobility a global financial
architecture in which the IMF plays a more active role in crisis monitoring and capital flow regulation, the sudden eruption of the Asian type of crisis can be averted.