IMF Podcasts

South Africa can celebrate significant progress in its first 20 years of democracy, but faces the challenge of reviving a weak economy. Addressing structural constraints such as electricity shortages ...

11 Dec 20148min

Despite his reputation as the father of greedy capitalism, Adam Smith did a great deal of thinking about the human condition and how to be a better, more generous person. One economist believes that S...

8 Dec 20148min

Economic ideas can be a hard pill to swallow for non-academics, and yet virtually everyone can benefit from understanding them. Economist Russ Roberts discusses how he uses stories, rap music and the ...

26 Nov 20148min

Data has gained prominence as a vital building block for making sound policy. IMF Director of Statistics, Louis Marc Ducharme talks about how the IMF is helping make data more widely available to poli...

19 Nov 20146min

When the richest 85 people hold the combined wealth of 3.5 Billion poor people, economist Jose Antonio Ocampo explains that Income inequality can shift from a human rights issue to a marker of potenti...

10 Nov 20148min

Labor market flexibility is considered by many to be essential to an efficient market economy. But a top-level official of the ILO says there's been an excessive focus on worker flexibility. Off the...

6 Nov 20146min

As Uganda's economy continues to grow, so does the need for more efficient ways of managing large development projects. The country's finance minister says the objectives of each program must be clear...

29 Okt 20146min

Private investment is down in India, partly due to the lack of coal and electricity. India's new chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian says removing those bottlenecks is key to increasing growth.

23 Okt 20145min