The International Monetary Fund said Wednesday it hopes to raise its lending capacity by 500 billion dollars, as it works to combat the debt crisis in the eurozone, according to dpa. "Based on staff's estimate of global potential financing needs of about 1 trillion dollars in the coming years, the Fund would aim to raise up to 500 billion dollars in additional lending resources," an IMF spokesman said in Washington. The fund is examining means to raise the additional money and would not provide further details before it completed consultations with its member countries. The IMF currently has 385 billion dollars in lending capacity.
