IMF Podcasts

Aging populations in many advanced and emerging market economies mean shrinking workforces, weighing on growth. However, the opposite is true in low-income countries where populations are growing, and...

11 Heinä 202416min

Nigeria's new administration has set out on an ambitious reform path to stabilize its currency, regain market confidence, and tame inflation. In this podcast, Governor Olayemi Cardoso and IMF Africa D...

28 Kesä 202420min

Economic growth is often seen as the core ingredient to social development, but it's a relatively new idea. So what did pre-growth society look like and how much growth can modern society sustain? In ...

11 Kesä 202430min

Central banks worldwide share common practices in how they operate, but the UK's central bank is unique in how it makes its rate decisions. Catherine Mann is a Professor of the Practice at Brandeis Un...

6 Kesä 202421min

It's no mystery where the IMF was born but its origin story might surprise you. While the spotlight was on the charismatic British economist John Maynard Keynes during the 1944 Bretton Woods Conferenc...

3 Kesä 202423min

While African countries have little to do with what's causing the climate crisis, they are feeling the brunt of the extreme weather patterns and left footing a climate-mitigation bill they can't affor...

27 Touko 202419min

When disaster strikes, the knee-jerk reaction is to seek public funds for support, but private donors have the agility that governments often don't. And while capital flows to Africa slowed to a trick...

21 Touko 202419min

Conflict disrupts lives and economies everywhere, but recent IMF analytical work suggests the economic impact of conflict in the Middle East and Central Asia has proven larger and more persistent than...

14 Touko 202441min