Fragility
Spring Meetings seminar May 14, 2024
In this podcast, Ghassan Salamé (SciencesPo Paris), Mark Malloch-Brown (Open Society Foundations), and Rola Dashti (UNESCWA) discuss how the recent scourge of conflict and instability requires innovative thinking. The panel was held during the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings and moderated by CNN International’s Julia Chatterley.
Fragility / Poverty
Martin Kalisa March 7, 2024
Countless resources and billions of dollars have been directed at poverty alleviation over the decades and yet almost 10 percent of the world’s population is still struggling to survive. Why do so many anti-poverty efforts fall short? Martin Kalisa is the Deputy Director of ATD Fourth World, an anti-poverty organization that builds research teams that include poor people to better understand their needs.
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
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.
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 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.
Peter Maurer May 12, 2022
Economic development is critical for the ICRC to fulfill its mandate of stabilizing societies through humanitarian work.
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
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.
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 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 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.
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