Fiscal Policy Provides Lifelines to People, Economies
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds around the world, emergency government spending on things like health care and employment, as well as tax policy, are preserving lives and livelihoods. In this podcast...
14 Apr 202014min
Global Financial Stability Amid Covid-19 Pandemic
Early in the year, financial markets were buoyed by a widespread sense of optimism on the back of supportive monetary policies, reduced trade tensions, and tentative signs of stabilization in the glob...
14 Apr 202018min
Kristalina Georgieva: Confronting the Covid-19 Crisis
In this podcast, IMF Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva gives a preview of the World Economic Outlook to be released next week during the IMF's first-ever "virtual" Spring Meetings. In normal tim...
9 Apr 202013min
Abebe Aemro Selassie: What Covid-19 Means for sub-Saharan Africa
Countries in sub-Saharan Africa are taking sweeping measures to halt the advance of Covid-19, imposing limits on public gatherings and the like. But for the region's most vulnerable, social distancing...
27 Mar 202016min
Kristalina Georgieva on Human, Economic Costs of Covid-19
The coronavirus pandemic is having a profound impact on lives and economies around the world. In this podcast, we hear IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva's statement following her call with G2...
24 Mar 20207min
Martin Mühleisen: Mitigating Economic Fallout of Coronavirus
The coronavirus has wreaked havoc on just about every aspect of life around the world. The limited human contact required to contain the spread of the virus is hindering economic activity and in turn,...
20 Mar 202016min
David Bloom: Demography is Destiny–Really?
It took more than 50,000 years for the world population to reach 1 billion people, but since 1960, we have added successive billions every one to two decades. The United Nations projects there will be...
11 Mar 202020min
Giovanni Peri: Immigration Answer to Demographic Dilemma
While the immigration debate tends to focus on culture, identity and potential economic benefits, Giovanni Peri says demographics are the Achilles' heel of the global North. Peri is Director of the Gl...
2 Mar 202019min
