Kristalina Georgieva: Crisis Upon Crisis: How the World Can Respond
Just as many countries were beginning to feel the grip of the pandemic start to ease, another global calamity is threatening the recovery. In her customary curtain-raiser speech to the IMF-World Bank ...
14 Huhti 202221min
Ruchir Agarwal and Miles Kimball on Electronic Money and Inflation
Most people and virtually all businesses now use electronic money for their transactions, yet central banks are still dealing with what's known among economists as the paper currency problem, which li...
13 Huhti 202227min
Ruchir Agarwal and Miles Kimball on Negative Interest Rates and Inflation
Everyone feels the pinch when inflation is on the rise and so the pressure on central banks to manage inflation rates has grown exponentially in recent weeks. In this first podcast of a two-part serie...
8 Huhti 202221min
Yamini Aiyar on the Education Pandemic
The pandemic has sparked an enormous upheaval in education around the world. But in India and many other low-income countries where remote learning is often not an option, children's education has sim...
31 Maalis 202214min
Foreign Policy Live with Kristalina Georgieva and Gita Gopinath
The last two years have proven a test for the global financial system, and the nature of the crises is getting more complex by the day. In this podcast, Foreign Policy magazine's Ravi Agrawal asks the...
25 Maalis 202229min
Ian Ball on the Real Value of Hidden Assets
Governments with strong balance sheets are known to recover from shocks more quickly. Yet many of them don't have balance sheets, or even know what assets and liabilities they have. The IMF estimates ...
16 Maalis 202217min
Kristalina Georgieva: Women Are Powerful Agents of Change
As the world this week celebrates International Women's Day, hundreds of millions of women are living in conflict and fragility. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva joined a special United Nati...
10 Maalis 202211min
Women in Economics: Laura Carvalho on Popularizing Brazilian Economics
In this episode of Women in Economics, economist Laura Carvalho speaks with journalist Rhoda Metcalfe about how growing up in Brazil in the 90s during its currency swings and hyperinflation drove her ...
8 Maalis 202221min
