Paying For the New Development Agenda
IMF board of Directors approved a package of proposals to help developing countries finance the new Sustainable Development Goals. IMF's Sean Nolan says the package will enhance the financial safety ...
8 Jul 201510min
Global Trade Starts At Home
Increasing trade can spur growth says Mari Pangestu of Jakarta's center for Strategic and International Studies. In this podcast Pangestu talks about how efficient, open and fair regional trade agreem...
3 Jul 20157min
Keeping the Glass Full in Burkina Faso
The IMF recently published a study on the world's water resource management challenges. Co-author Laure Redifer says Burkina Faso is an example of how efficient water resource management can improve a...
25 Jun 201511min
Inequality's Toll on Growth
Study by IMF Staff suggests raising income levels of the poor and middle boosts overall economic growth. Co-authors Kalpana Kochhar and Era Dabla-Norris say the wealth of the rich is not trickling dow...
18 Jun 201513min
Financing the New Development Goals
As the United Nations prepares to adopt its 17 new Sustainable Development goals in September, Florencio Abad talks about how the Philippines and other countries might find the resources required to h...
11 Jun 20155min
Solvency or Bust?
Public debt is a normal part of a government's finances, but too much debt can have serious consequences for a country. During a seminar at the IMF-World Bank Meetings, one former head of state, who ...
4 Jun 20156min
Rwanda: Building from the Ashes
Two decades on from the genocide in which hundreds of thousands were slaughtered, the tiny east African state of Rwanda has been seeking a path to development and reconciliation. By Claver Gatete, Mi...
1 Jun 20159min
Infrastructure Investment: The Case of the U.K.
Over the next decade and a half , the United Kingdom will pour hundreds of billions of dollars into transport, and other infrastructure projects. One of the country's top experts in the field says go...
14 Mai 20157min
