Jakkie Cilliers on Fragile States
IMF Podcasts, April 24, 2015
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- Published: April 24, 2015
In This Episode
- Date: April 24, 2015
- More Than 1 billion people live in countries affected by fragility.
- Fragile states are often confronted with political instability or conflict, inadequate public services, and lack of economic opportunities.
- Photo caption: Women rush into a feeding centre while soldiers try to contain the crowd in Badbaado, a camp established for internally displaced people in the country's capital Mogadishu (photo: Stuart Price/UN/Handout/Corbis)
Guests
- Jakkie Cilliers, Executive Director of the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, South Africa
- Claver Gatete, Minister of Finance of Rwanda
- Kaifala Marah, Minister of Finance and Economic Development in Sierra Leone
Behind the Mic
- Bruce Edwards — International Monetary Fund
- Bruce Edwards produces the IMF podcast program.
- He is 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.
- Rhoda Metcalfe — RHODA METCALFE is an independent journalist and audio producer.