Mthuli Ncube: Building Blocks for Africa's Growth
While Africa's workforce expands, the lack of modern and efficient infrastructure is inhibiting economic growth. The prospect of building power plants and transportation networks is daunting for many ...
17 Aug 201713min
Growing Pains: Malawi's Struggle with Hunger, Climate Change
Extreme weather has hit Malawi's economy hard over the last two years. Severe flooding followed by a drought—the worst in its history—caused widespread crop failure and placed 6.7 million people at ri...
3 Aug 201742min
Eswar Prasad on the Curious Rise of the Renminbi
As China's economy catches up in size with that of the United States, some predict the renminbi will soon challenge the dollar's dominance in international finance. But in this podcast, Cornell Univer...
21 Jul 201716min
Uganda: Rising Debt and the Promise of Oil
Drought, regional conflict, and slow credit growth are taking their toll on Uganda's economy. While per-capita growth has hovered around 5 percent for the last 20 years, the IMFs latest economic asses...
13 Jul 20179min
Growth in the Shadows: Sub-Saharan Africa's Informal Economy
By 2035 sub-Saharan Africa will have more working-age people than the rest of the world's regions combined. This growing workforce bulge will have to be met with jobs, but the region remains one of th...
28 Jun 201714min
Tayo Oviosu: Technology Draws More Nigerians Into Banking Fold
More than two billion people worldwide are without bank accounts, and only one in three adults in sub-Saharan Africa have access to any type of financial services. But Tayo Oviosu, Founder of Nigeria'...
16 Jun 201712min
Ian Goldin: Disruptive Changes That Will Transform the World
While science and technology propel us into the future at what some would describe as breakneck speed, Oxford University's Ian Goldin says we should draw from the past because we've been here before. ...
6 Jun 201712min
Christine Lagarde: Millennials and the Future of Work
While millions of young people enter the labor market every year, the chance of landing a traditional full-time job with benefits are getting slim. Global youth unemployment is on the rise and many yo...
31 Mai 201715min
