| Summary:
 
 This paper summarizes the initial lessons of the financial crisis along 
		three dimensions—regulation, macroeconomic policy, and the global 
		architecture for stability. The focus here is not on the near-term 
		resolution of the crisis or the long-term consequences (which must be 
		left to other papers), but rather on prevention, bearing in mind that 
		crises will inevitably recur. The underlying analysis is elaborated in 
		three related staff papers to be issued separately.
 Companion 
		Papers:
 Initial 
		Lessons of the Crisis for the Global Architecture and the IMF
 
 Lessons 
		of the Global Crisis for Macroeconomic Policy
 
 Lessons 
		of the Financial Crisis for Future Regulation of Financial Institutions 
		and Markets and for Liquidity Management
 
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