IMF Podcasts

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 Juli 20157min

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 Juni 201511min

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 Juni 201513min

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 Juni 20155min

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 Juni 20156min

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 Juni 20159min

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 Maj 20157min

Mauricio Villafuerte , Chef de mission pour le Tchad dit que le pays a mener à bien de remarquables réformes économiques, ce qui lui a permis d'avoir accès à un allègement de la dette dans le cadre de...

8 Maj 201510min