Fragility

Fragility / Poverty

Building Resilience in Uncertain Times: Per Jacobsson Lecture

LESETJA KGANYAGO, Masood Ahmed, Guillermo Ortiz October 24, 2023

With the years of access to cheap money behind them and the effects of climate change and geopolitical tensions only getting worse, what does resilience look like for emerging market economies? This year’s Per Jacobbson lecture brings together three influential thinkers to discuss how countries can work towards economic resilience in an era of greater uncertainty.

Fragility / Migration

UN Refugee Chief Filippo Grandi on Where Economics Fits In

Filippo Grandi April 6, 2023

Financial stability is not only about managing inflation, employment rates and spending, it’s about understanding how those factors affect people in different places and in all kinds of circumstances.

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.

Fragility / Commodities

Maximo Torero Cullen on the Looming Food Crisis

Maximo Torero Cullen July 28, 2022

Inflation has pushed up prices for almost everything, but rising food prices could mean life or death for people in countries already struggling with conflict, economic downturns, and the effects of climate change.

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.

Fragility / Migration

Giovanni Peri on the Economic Impact of Ukrainian Migration

Giovanni Peri April 22, 2022

The war in Ukraine has sparked one of the biggest refugee crises of modern times. So, can Europe afford to accommodate the millions of people coming across its borders?

Fragility / Labor

The Puzzling Labor Market

Carlo Pizzinelli February 3, 2022

When the pandemic hit two years ago, millions of people quickly found themselves unable to work because of the nature of their jobs or because of the recession that ensued.

Fragility / Poverty

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.

Fragility / Health

Kristalina Georgieva: Resilience in a New Shock-Prone World

KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA February 19, 2021

The pandemic has proven in no uncertain terms that people and institutions need to adapt to change.

Fragility / Migrant labor

Ralph Chami: Umbilical Cord of Remittances Under Threat

RALPH CHAMI May 29, 2020

The pandemic is crippling economies across the globe but for many countries, the economic shock will be magnified by the loss of remittances—money sent home by migrant and guest workers employed in foreign countries.

Fragility / Poverty

Difficulties Present Opportunities for the African Entrepreneur

August 10, 2018

Fragility / Migration

Refugee Crisis Taking Toll on Jordan, Imad Fakhoury

IMAD FAKHOURY May 20, 2016

Of the 5 million people fleeing civil war in Syria, more than a million have ended up in Jordan.