This bought enough support for a truly headline-grabbing increase in IMF resources. The IMF would receive $250 billion in immediate new financing from members. There would be up to $500 billion in new Arrangements to Borrow, which provided the IMF with credits from member states on demand. And finally there would be an issue of $250 billion in SDRs to all the IMF members.46 This gave Brown the “plump, round headline figure of $1 trillion” that he so craved.
