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ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

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Outlooks / Political economy

Gillian Tett on Anthropology for the Modern Economist

GILLIAN TETT April 21, 2023

Author and Financial Times journalist, Gillian Tett says anthropology offers insights into public policy challenges and helps economists better understand socioeconomic problems.

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Outlooks / Economic growth

Abebe Aemro Selassie and Ken Opalo on Making Reforms Stick in Africa

Abe Selassie March 30, 2023

As global economic uncertainty surges, Sub-Saharan Africa faces a host of challenges that will require effective policy responses if it is to regain the ground it lost during the pandemic.

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Outlooks / Economic growth

China: Reopening, Rebound, and Challenges

Sonali Jain-Chandra February 3, 2023

China’s severe covid lockdowns since the start of the pandemic undoubtedly contributed to an economic downturn last year not seen in decades.

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Outlooks / Economic growth

Wenjie Chen on the Latest Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa

WENJIE CHEN November 3, 2022

Economic outlooks don’t come easy in the current environment but the latest Regional Economic Outlook for sub-Saharan Africa proved to be particularly challenging.

FINANCIAL MARKETS

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Financial Stability / Financial markets

Global Financial Stability Tested by Higher Inflation and Interest Rates

FABIO NATALUCCI April 11, 2023

Financial stability never comes easy, but the past few months have been especially challenging with persistently high inflation and two bank failures in the United States that exposed vulnerabilities lurking beneath the surface.

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Financial Stability / Prices

Laura Valderrama: European Housing Markets at a Turning Point

Laura Valderrama March 24, 2023

The last few months have witnessed tensions in Europe's housing markets as the cost-of-living crisis has eroded real incomes and the surge in interest rates has made borrowers more vulnerable to financial distress.

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Financial Stability / Monetary policy

Johannes Wiegand on Bimetallism and Monetary Stability

Johannes Wiegand March 1, 2023

While the currency values of today’s economic powerhouses help maintain global financial stability, the currency systems in the 19th century were tied to precious metals and France played the stabilizing role.

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Financial Stability / Monetary policy

Alan S. Blinder on Monetary and Fiscal Policy: Rowing with Both Oars

Alan Blinder February 17, 2023

The conflicts and collaborations in fiscal and monetary policy that have shaped the United States economy.

DEVELOPMENT 

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Fragility / Poverty

Resilience and Sustainability Trust: New Tool for a Changing World

January 26, 2023

The IMF’s Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST) helps low-income and vulnerable middle-income countries build resilience to external shocks and ensure sustainable growth, contributing to their longer-term balance of payments stability.

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Fragility / Poverty

ICRC's Peter Maurer on the Scourge of Fragility and Partnerships to Fight it

Peter Maurer May 12, 2022

Economic development is critical for the ICRC to fulfill its mandate of stabilizing societies through humanitarian work.

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Women In Economics / Poverty

Minouche Shafik and Kristalina Georgieva on a New Social Contract

KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA, MINOUCHE SHAFIK February 17, 2022

Minouche Shafik and Kristalina Georgieva discuss how current economic trends are straining social safety nets and fueling disaffection among people across the globe.

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Fragility / Poverty

Franck Bousquet: Supporting Fragile and Conflict-Affected States

Franck Bousquet January 31, 2022

Fragile and conflict-affected states are home to nearly 1 billion people and confront some of the greatest challenges among the world’s economies.

F&D Magazine

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F&D Magazine / Trade policy

Michele Ruta on Discriminatory Regionalism

MICHELE RUTA June 1, 2023

As rising geopolitical tensions chip away at globalization, will a more fragmented world mean stronger regional pacts? Economist Michele Ruta says the trend toward strengthening ties with friends and loosening them with non-friends is making regional trade less about integration and more about discrimination.

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F&D Magazine

Ruchir Agarwal on Industrial Policy

RUCHIR AGARWAL May 22, 2023

Industrial policy refers to a set of policies that governments use to bolster national industries or companies deemed strategically important for economic competitiveness, social outcomes, or national security. In this podcast, Agarwal says while the practice of choosing national champions fell out of favor in the 1980s, rising geopolitical tensions of late have sparked a renewed interest in industrial policy, which is often a guise for protectionism.  

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F&D Magazine / Globalization

Harold James: In Defense of Globalization

HAROLD JAMES February 23, 2023

The longtime critics of globalization are having another moment, claiming supply chain shortages, high inflation, and increasing migration are products of an overly globalized world.

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F&D Magazine / Education

Eric Hanushek on the Basic Skills Gap

Eric A. Hanushek August 17, 2022

The skill differences account for three-quarters of cross-country variations in long-term growth.

Women in Economics

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Women In Economics / Labor

Women in Economics: Betsey Stevenson on Work-Life Balance

Betsey Stevenson January 5, 2023

We often think about the economy as being driven by how productive we are on the job, but the pandemic made it clear that our personal lives and our work lives are in fact deeply linked.

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Women In Economics / Development

Women in Economics: Seema Jayachandran: Change Attitudes Change Lives

Seema Jayachandran November 25, 2022

Economic progress improves lives, but it can also clash with some of the bigger development problems we face, like gender equality and the environment.

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Women In Economics / Gender

A Sustainable Future: Ratna Sahay on Mainstreaming Gender

RATNA SAHAY, Jason Mitchell September 29, 2022

How can multilateral institutions like the IMF help close the gender gap?

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Women In Economics / Gender

Women in Economics: Sabina Alkire: Tackling Poverty Beyond the Idea of Material Wealth

Sabina Alkire August 16, 2022

We hear from an economist who believes there is more to poverty reduction than just money.

BEHIND THE MIC

Bruce Edwards

International Monetary Fund

Bruce Edwards produces the IMF podcast program. He's an award-winning audio producer and journalist who's covered armed conflicts, social unrest, and natural disasters from all corners of the world. He believes economists have an important role in solving the world's problems and aspires to showcase their research in every IMF podcast.

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