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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 202221min
Paolo Mauro: Adding Ethics to Public Finance
Should the rich pay more taxes than the poor? Economists and public finance practitioners have traditionally focused on economic efficiency when answering questions like that, steering clear of any mo...
1 Mar 202222min
