Refugee Crisis Taking Toll on Jordan, Imad Fakhoury
Of the 5 million people fleeing civil war in Syria, more than a million have ended up in Jordan. The refugee crisis has hit host countries like Jordan hard. Imad Fakhoury, Jordan's minister of plannin...
20 Touko 201610min
Kemi Adeosun, on Nigeria's Dwindling Oil Revenues
As Nigeria's Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun is charged with navigating Africa's largest oil producer through the biggest oil price slump in decades. In this podcast, Adeosun talks about the need to di...
13 Touko 20167min
L'affaiblissement de la croissance en Afrique nécessite un changement de cap
La dernière édition des Perspectives économiques régionales,prévoit que l'Afrique subsaharienne va connaître une deuxième annéedifficile à cause des multiples chocs qui frappent la région. Dansce podc...
28 Huhti 201612min
Weakening Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa Calls for Policy Reset
The IMF's latest regional economic outlook for Sub-SaharanAfrica predicts a second difficult year as the region is hit bymultiple shocks. In this podcast, co-author Céline Allard, says thesteep declin...
28 Huhti 201611min
Raghuram Rajan, on the Global Financial Safety Net
In this Podcast, we speak with Raghu Rajan, India's central bank governor about the Global Financial Safety Net. Rajan is charged with securing monetary stability in one of the world's largest Emergin...
27 Huhti 201611min
Too Slow Too Long; New IMF Global Growth Forecast
The new World Economic Outlook anticipates a slight acceleration in growth this year, from 3.1 to 3.2 percent, followed by 3.5 percent growth in 2017. But IMF Chief Economist Maurice Obstfeld says pro...
12 Huhti 20165min
Public Investment Payoff Not Necessarily About Efficiency
While many economists would argue public investment projects in highly efficient countries have a greater impact on growth, recent research by some IMF economists shows that’s not necessarily the case...
1 Huhti 201613min
Le Gabon Touché par le Repli des Cours du Pétrole
Dans son dernier bilan, le FMI signale que l’économie gabonaise a été durement touchée par la chute des cours du pétrole. Dans ce podcast, nous nous entretenons avec Montfort Mlachila, chef de mission...
16 Maalis 20168min
