Ruchir Agarwal: Chimpanzee Politics and Climate Change
When it comes to cooperation, humans and chimpanzees still have much in common. Perhaps that's not surprising given humans share over 98 percent of our DNA with chimps. But in a recent article in Fina...
30 Aug 202116min
Divya Kirti on the Economics of Climate Change
As climate change looms ever larger, most economists agree that a carbon tax would go a long way toward reducing emissions. But carbon taxes and related policies often face deep political constraints,...
28 Aug 202120min
What $650bn in SDRs Means for the Global Recovery
Special Drawing Rights (SDR) are international reserve assets and used as the accounting unit for IMF transactions with its member countries. Earlier this month, in a historic multilateral response to...
23 Aug 202113min
Rohini Pande on Inclusion Economics
Inclusion doesn't just happen; it takes policies that intentionally serve the very specific purpose of ensuring inclusion. That is the focus of Rohini Pande's work these days as the Director of Yale's...
5 Aug 202116min
The Global Informal Workforce: Priorities for Inclusive Growth
60 percent of the working-age population worldwide operates in the informal sector. A new book titled The Global Informal Workforce, Priorities for Inclusive Growth uses IMF research to study the caus...
29 Jul 202116min
Oral Williams: How Technical Assistance Translates into Better Lives
Capacity development is one of the IMF's best-kept secrets. Strong institutions are key to a country's long-term development, and a third of the IMF's operating budget goes toward helping governments ...
15 Jul 202116min
Island States Paying Price for Climate Change
No country has been spared the effects of changing weather patterns but developing countries–and island states, in particular, are facing the brunt of climate change while not having contributed to it...
2 Jul 202113min
Luc Eyraud on Wooing Investors to Africa's Development
With public finances stretched to the limit and the pandemic making things worse by the day, new IMF research looks at innovative ways to get the private sector more involved in financing Africa's dev...
24 Jun 202118min
