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 dollar's strength is weakening the currencies of developing nations. It's worryin ... Show More
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US steps up to save the Argentine Peso
The US has purchased Argentine pesos, taking the next step in a controversial effort to calm a currency crisis hitting the South American country and its president, Trump ally Javier Milei. In the US though, it's a different story – farmers, especially soybean farmers, have lost ... Show More
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Aug 2022
Is the IMF Still Relevant?
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
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Mar 2024
LE SUPPLÉMENT DU DIMANCHE Ukraine, une économie en guerre ET Le Nigeria face à la crise économique
Ukraine, une économie en guerreL'Ukraine est entrée le 24 février dans sa troisième année de guerre. Un conflit au lourd bilan humain mais aussi économique : après l’effondrement des premiers mois, le pays a renoué avec la croissance en 2023, mais en 2024 le Produit intérieur bru ... Show More
48m 30s
Oct 2022
IMF: Global economic storm just beginning
Sam Fenwick is joined by Shuli Ren, a journalist with Bloomberg in Hong Kong and Mitchell Hartman, a Senior Reporter for US radio show, Marketplace in Portland, Oregon.
The International Monetary Fund has warned that, for many people, next year will feel like a recession. Daniel ... Show More
50m 47s
Feb 2023
Productivity has been on a decline, but we can fix it
Worker productivity has been on the downswing for the better part of the last decade and a half, a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute finds. The good news for the economy, according to McKinsey Director Olivia White, is that there are ways that trend can be reversed. W ... Show More
7m 28s
Jan 2023
Global economy risks a second recession
The global economy is "perilously close to falling into recession", according to the latest forecast from the World Bank, as the impacts of the Ukraine war and Covid pandemic continue to be felt across the world.
In fact, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are already struggling to keep thei ... Show More
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