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  "title": "IMF iLab: New Space for Innovation",
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  "summary": "But technology also offers the potential for finding solutions to some of the challenges facing the global economy.",
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      "content": "- The technological revolution has far reaching implications and is rapidly changing the way the world does business.\n- Technology offers the potential for finding solutions to some of the challenges facing the global economy.\n- To encourage creative thinking among its economists, the IMF recently opened an innovation lab.\n- Tristan Walker, first iLab Chief, says innovation will help make the institution more agile."
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      "content": "- BEHIND THE MIC: Bruce Edwards, International Monetary Fund.\n  - Bruce Edwards produces the IMF podcast program.\n  - He is an award-winning audio producer and journalist who has covered armed conflicts, social unrest, and natural disasters from all corners of the world.\n  - He believes economists have an important role in solving the world's problems and aspires to showcase their research in every IMF podcast.\n- RHODA METCALFE: RHODA METCALFE is an independent journalist and audio producer."
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