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F&D Magazine / Development

Elizabeth Johnson on Fixing São Paulo’s Housing Deficit

ELIZABETH JOHNSON December 19, 2024

As urbanization continues to grow worldwide, affordable housing is a rare commodity in many cities. São Paulo­, South America’s biggest city, has gained over 2 million new residents in the past decade alone. Elizabeth Johnson heads Brazil research at TS Lombard and says the city is now looking to its largely abandoned downtown core to address its housing woes.

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F&D Magazine / Housing

Deniz Igan on The Housing Affordability Crunch

DENIZ IGAN December 12, 2024

While housing markets play a significant role in economies, new research shows houses across 40 countries are less affordable than at any time since the 2008 financial crisis. In this podcast, IMF economist Deniz Igan says the pandemic triggered an unusual sequence of events that housing markets around the world are still struggling to correct. 

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F&D Magazine / Productivity

Nicholas Bloom on why Remote Work is Good for Growth

NICHOLAS BLOOM September 3, 2024

Working from home was not an option for most people before March 11, 2020, when work and home life suddenly collided. Stanford University's Nicholas Bloom was studying the potential impact of remote work long before the pandemic launched it into the mainstream and now has data to suggest businesses should stick to the hybrid working model.

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F&D Magazine

Raghuram Rajan on Blazing a New Path to India’s Development

RAGHURAM RAJAN, KRISHNA SRINIVASAN August 15, 2024

For many emerging market economies, moving from an export-oriented strategy with labor-intensive manufacturing to a more sophisticated production process was key to their development. But the world is quickly changing, and former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan says India need not follow that same path. In this podcast, IMF Asia and Pacific Department Head Krishna Srinivasan and Rajan discuss how India might leverage its growing workforce and pivot from “brawn to brain”.

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F&D Magazine / Debt

Mark Aguiar: When Sovereign Debt Breaks its Promise

MARK AGUIAR August 8, 2024

For decades, governments have been tapping into global sovereign debt markets to smooth ups and downs in revenue with the hope that it would help spur investment. But what happens when government borrowing fails to deliver? Mark Aguiar is the Director of the International Economics Section at Princeton University, and his research suggests that sovereign borrowing to stabilize the economy may have the opposite effect.

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F&D Magazine / Inclusive growth

Daniel Susskind on Growth: A History and a Reckoning

DANIEL SUSSKIND June 11, 2024

Economic growth is often seen as the core ingredient to social development, but it’s a relatively new idea. So what did pre-growth society look like and how much growth can modern society sustain? In this podcast, Daniel Susskind argues that economic policy should consider the costs of growth more carefully and realign the drivers to better fit with the challenges of our time. 

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F&D Magazine / International organization

James Boughton on The Messy Legacy of Harry Dexter White

James Boughton June 3, 2024

It’s no mystery where the IMF was born but its origin story might surprise you. While the spotlight was on John Maynard Keynes during the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, a little-known American economist was working in the shadows. IMF historian James Boughton speaks with Rhoda Metcalfe about how Harry White made history without making a splash.

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F&D Magazine / Climate change

Thinking Globally to Pay Africa’s Climate Bill

MICHAEL OLABISI May 27, 2024

While African countries have little to do with what’s causing the climate crisis, they are feeling the brunt of the extreme weather patterns and left footing a climate-mitigation bill they can’t afford. In this podcast, Michigan State University's Michael Olabisi says it’s high time advanced economies start treating climate change as the global challenge that it is.

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Jeffry Frieden: How Politics and Economics Interact

JEFFRY FRIEDEN April 11, 2024

Even optimal economic policies create winners and losers, and that’s where politics steps in. Trade liberalization is an example of a policy that can make a country better off as a whole, but what happens to workers who lose out to cheaper goods? Jeffry Frieden says while politics is often messy, it’s how society puts a value on things economists can’t measure.

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F&D Magazine

Suresh Naidu: Why Labor Market Model Falls Short

SURESH NAIDU April 5, 2024

For decades, the standard labor market model has been ruled by supply and demand, but a younger generation of labor economists is questioning that approach. Suresh Naidu is a Professor of Economics and International Public Affairs at Columbia University. In this podcast, Naidu and journalist Rhoda Metcalfe discuss why today’s labor market model sometimes fails to reflect the real world.

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F&D Magazine / General macroeconomic programming, analysis and forecasting

Ulrike Malmendier on Behavioral Economics

ULRIKE MALMENDIER March 19, 2024

Economists build models based on basic assumptions of human behavior. But people are complicated, right? Ulrike Malmendier is a behavioral economist whose innovative research has shown that experiential learning rewires the brain to make decisions based on past experiences. Malmendier and Journalist Rhoda Metcalfe discuss how behavioral economics is helping to build better economic models.

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F&D Magazine / Technology

AI that Shares the Wealth: Stephanie Bell

Stephanie Bell January 4, 2024

Only a small number of companies in an even smaller number of countries hold the keys to AI’s development. So what happens when a narrow swath of humanity makes choices that will impact everyone else? Stephanie Bell is a Senior Research Scientist at the Partnership for AI. In this podcast, Bell says guidelines are needed to ensure AI’s development trajectory serves humanity.

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