Spain pledges 4 b euros for IMF

Spain on Monday pledged to lend more than four billion euros (5.8
billion dollars) to the International Monetary Fund to help global
recovery efforts as part of a European Union agreement, the IMF said.
The IMF said in a statement released in the run-up to annual meetings
of the IMF and World Bank in Istanbul that the money would help
"provide timely and effective balance of payments assistance to its
members in the current crisis."