F&D Magazine / Technology
Daniel Susskind November 30, 2023
There’s no question that Artificial Intelligence will increase productivity- but at what cost? What happens when systems out-perform not only factory workers but society’s most esteemed professions? Daniel Susskind is a research professor at King's College London and a senior research associate at the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University. In this podcast, he speaks with journalist Rhoda Metcalfe about how encouraging technologies that complement rather than substitute human work would place fewer livelihoods at risk.
F&D Magazine / Migrant labor
Dilip Ratha October 19, 2023
Millions of families around the world- even some countries, rely on workers living abroad to keep their economies afloat. In fact, global remittances reached a record $647 billion in 2022—three times that of official development assistance. Dilip Ratha is lead economist for migration and remittances at the World Bank. In this podcast, Ratha says remittances are timely, large, stable, and best of all, they are countercyclical.
F&D Magazine / Trade policy
NOAH KAUFMAN June 15, 2023
The passage of the Inflation Reduction Act in the United States unleashed its largest investment in climate and energy ever. But it also left many countries questioning some of its protectionist provisions, accusing the US of bending, if not breaking international trade rules under the WTO. So how do we move forward on climate without going backward on trade?
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.
F&D Magazine
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.
F&D Magazine / 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.
F&D Magazine / Education
Eric A. Hanushek August 17, 2022
The skill differences account for three-quarters of cross-country variations in long-term growth.
F&D Magazine / International organization
Patricia Clavin July 6, 2022
Patricia Clavin is Professor of Modern History at Oxford University. In this podcast, journalist Rhoda Metcalfe asks Clavin what the geopolitical fallout from the war might mean for globalization.
F&D Magazine / Inflation
YAN CARRIèRE-SWALLOW May 26, 2022
IMF Podcast on shipping costs and inflation with Yan Carrière-Swallow
MILES KIMBALL April 13, 2022
Most people and virtually all businesses now use electronic money for their transactions, yet central banks are still dealing with....
MILES KIMBALL, RUCHIR AGARWAL April 8, 2022
Everyone feels the pinch when inflation is on the rise and so the pressure on central banks to manage inflation rates has grown exponentially in recent weeks.
Yamini Aiyar March 31, 2022
The pandemic has sparked an enormous upheaval in education around the world. But in India and many other low-income countries where remote learning is often not an option, children's education's have simply fallen off the rails.
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