IMF Podcasts

In Japan, deaths outnumber births by 1,000 people per day on average. The population in some regions is now smaller than what it was in the 1950's. The combination of its rapidly declining labor force...

27 Sep 201813min

Jamaica's economic reform plan launched back in 2013, has shown promise. Employment is at historic highs and external borrowing costs are lower than they've ever been. But economic growth is still slo...

13 Sep 201814min

It's been ten years since Lehman Brothers—one of the largest firms on Wall street, was wiped out and closed its doors. Only two weeks before it filed for bankruptcy it held more than 600 billion dolla...

31 Aug 201810min

Few would argue that workers' remittances—the money migrants send to family in their home country—improve the lives of millions of people. Remittances amounted to over $400 billion last year. That's s...

30 Aug 201815min

Chaque pays en Afrique subsaharienne a son propre ensemble de défis et de possibilités, La communauté internationale a beaucoup investi ces dernières années à savoir comment augmenter la croissance éc...

17 Aug 201813min

Each country in sub-Saharan Africa has its own set of challenges and opportunities. And while the international community puts a lot of resources toward trying to figure out how best to keep the regio...

10 Aug 201815min

It's been almost 25 years since the end of apartheid, the system of institutionalized racial segregation that left most South Africans with limited access to basic services. The post-apartheid years s...

31 Jul 201813min

Illicit financial flows have been under the spotlight recently. Both the Panama and subsequent Paradise papers exposed large amounts of money held in tax havens—some under questionable circumstances, ...

24 Jul 201811min