World Bank/IMF Meetings Special: 25 Percent o...

Adam Tooze, Columbia University Professor and Author, "Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World Economy", discusses the Covid crisis and the stalled recovery amid the virus’s resurgence. Megan Greene, Harvard Kennedy School Senior Fellow, says she is not worried about runaway inflatio ...  Show more

Marty Walsh, U.S. Labor Secretary, discusses the disappointing U.S. jobs report. Priya Misra, TD Securities Global Head of Rates Strategy, says the U.S. Economic recovery will continue to come in fits and starts. Jeff Rosenberg, BlackRock Senior Portfolio Manager of Systematic Mu ...  Show more

The International Monetary Fund has warned that "the worst is yet to come" and next year may feel like a recession. It blames the war in Ukraine and rising prices worldwide. The BBC’s Business Correspondent Michelle Fleury joins us from the IMF in Washington DC. Meanwhile, the do ...  Show more

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde says the central bank's data-dependency forces it to act meeting by meeting. She spoke with host Tom Keene on the sidelines of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s annual economic policy symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.See ...  Show more

The 2023 World Bank Group-IMF Spring Meetings took place from April 10-16, amidst a backdrop of challenges: from stress in the banking sector, persistent inflation, rising debt, climate change and of course Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Addressing this instability, and lo ...  Show more

As countries grappled with the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic in recent years, many turned to global financial agencies for support, including the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. But in some cases, at least, the agencies’ playbook of reforms and auste ...  Show more