IMF Podcasts

As part of the IMF Exchange speaker series, London School of Economics Director, Minouche Shafik and IMF Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva discuss how current economic trends are straining socia...

17 Feb 202232min

When was the last time you used cash? In his latest book, Eswar Prasad looks at a world, not that far off, where using cash will no longer be an option. Prasad is a professor of economics at Cornell U...

15 Feb 202223min

When the pandemic hit two years ago, millions of people quickly found themselves unable to work because of the nature of their jobs or because of the recession that ensued. But now, as economies are p...

3 Feb 202215min

Fragile and conflict-affected states are home to nearly 1 billion people and confront some of the greatest challenges among the world's economies. 220 million people live within 40 miles from a major ...

31 Jan 202220min

Spending public funds efficiently and effectively is a challenge for governments around the world, but weak public finance management systems are holding back growth and development in Africa. Ken Opa...

11 Jan 202218min

Much has been said and written about the dangers of government borrowing. In their new book, In Defense of Public Debt, economic historian Barry Eichengreen and his co-authors trace the evolution of s...

21 Dec 202126min

While the world has been focused on the pandemic for the past two years, the rapid rise of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias pose another threat to global public health. Nathaniel Counts is Se...

16 Dec 202115min

Despite all the money and health infrastructure available to them, some of the world's richest countries have suffered higher death rates from COVID-19 than many developing countries. Jay Patel is a r...

9 Dec 202117min