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Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyNavigating industrial policy challenges and opportunities for emerging marketsIn the context of escalating geopolitical tensions, environmental challenges and rapid technological change, industrial policies – state-led strategic interventions designed to reshape an economy’s production structure – have made a comeback in both advanced economies and emerging markets. These policies seek to address global market failures such as climate change, foster economic growth, boost innovation and improve competitiveness. However, they have a mixed track record and pose complex challenges, which this panel will explore.
Tis discussion examined whether and how emerging markets can use industrial policy to drive sustainable economic growth, diversify economies and enhance competitiveness while navigating global geopolitical uncertainty and av...2025-05-221h 01
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyRegional Economic Forecasts 2025Listen back to the launch of the latest EBRD’s Regional Economic Prospects launched in May 2025 during the 34th EBRD Annual Meeting and Business Forum in London.The discussion covered the latest economic forecasts for the regions where the EBRD invests. The EBRD’s Chief Economist, Beata Javorcik, and leading regional experts discussed the challenges confronting policymakers amidst rising geo-political tensions and intensifying pressures on government finances.
Speakers:
Jonathan Charles, Strategy Advisor
Sergey Guriev, Dean, Professor of Economics, London Business School
Beata Javorcik, Chief Economist, EBRD
Lord Jim O'Neill of Gatley2025-05-2259 min
FinTech Focus TV – Powered by Harrington StarrEBRD’s Approach to FinTech Success | Alexandre Monnier, Principal Banker, Private Equity at EBRDHow is EBRD transforming FinTech across emerging markets? Recorded at FinTech Connect 2024 at the ExCeL Centre in London, this episode features an oberservation into the world of private equity and FinTech investments with Alexandre Monnier, Principal Banker, Private Equity at EBRD, hosted by Ian Bailey.Discover how the EBRD is driving innovation, inclusion, and sustainability across emerging markets, supporting FinTech startups with growth equity strategies, and championing digital transformation on a global scale.FinTech Focus TV is powered by Harrington Starr, global leaders in Financial Tech Recruitment. For more episodes or FinTech recruitment a...2025-01-2709 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyLaunch Of The EBRD Transition Report 2024 - 25 Navigating Industrial PolicyListen to the discussion on the industrial policy at the launch of the EBRD Transition Report, moderated by Richard Porter, EBRD Managing Director of Communications. It featured:
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate in economics and Professor at Columbia University
Rana Foroohar, global business columnist and associate editor at the Financial Times
Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Director of Bruegel, the European Union’s economic think tank
Beata Javorcik, EBRD Chief Economist
The Transition Report report takes an extensive look at industrial policies in the EBRD regions and beyond. Such policies, which are aimed at changing the sectoral composition of production in an economy, have seen...2024-11-271h 30
The SAF PodcastThe SAF Podcast: EBRD - The art of spreading risk in SAF projects In this episode of The SAF Podcast, we sit down with Roberto Gonzalez from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to explore the complexities of financing Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) projects. Roberto takes us through his personal journey from chemical engineering and oil refining to his pivotal role in the EBRD's energy transition team. We discuss EBRD's ambitious goals of achieving over 50% green investments and ensuring alignment with the Paris Agreement, while also exploring the unique challenges and opportunities in making SAF projects attractive to investors.Roberto offers unique insights into the bankability o...2024-09-0440 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyEBRD Transition Report 2023-24 live launchListen to the live launch of the EBRD Transition Report launch.
The global shift to net zero will require major structural changes in economies, as well as extensive change in daily lives. The scale of the transition is unprecedented: from the rush to source critical raw materials to the reconfiguration of global supply chains; from the rise of green skills in the workforce to the development of environmentally sustainable housing markets.
The EBRD Transition Report 2023-24: Transitions big and small, published today, offers revealing insights into the way macro-level trends leading to carbon neutrality impact the types of job sought...2023-11-221h 24
Democracy That Delivers376: Reconstructing Ukraine’s Economy: Insights from the EBRDWhat will it take to revitalize Ukraine’s economy amidst conflict? Dimitar Bogov, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Lead Economist for Eastern Europe and Caucasus discusses economic recovery strategies, investment climate reforms, and long-term growth prospects.2023-09-1429 min
The Creative AdventureE5: Alan Rousso: Former Head of Carnegie Moscow Centre, and Managing Director at EBRD, on seizing the opportunities that feel uncomfortableIn today's episode, we chat with Alan Rousso. Alan's early career took him from academia to Russia where he became the head of the prestigious Carnegie Moscow Centre. From there he moved to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (or EBRD) in the UK where over 20 years he made a significant contribution as a senior leader. He is now working as an executive coach where he combines an emotional intelligence from his own journey with his understanding of what it takes to develop individuals, learnt from three decades as a lea...2023-06-021h 38
ODI live events podcastMDB as catalysts for private sector mobilisation with EBRD President Odile Renaud-BassoMDB as catalysts for private sector mobilisation with EBRD President Odile Renaud-Basso by ODI Global2023-05-311h 27
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyWar And Post - War Economics Lessons For UkrainePolicymakers and investors need to be aware of the short and long-term challenges Ukraine faces during the war and those that the country will have to deal with in the post-war period.
This panel takes a broad look at the historical experience of war and peace and examines the impact that armed conflicts have had on economic performance and political, social and population trends, both during the wars and after they end.
This retrospective provides some indication of the sheer scale of the challenges that Ukraine has been subject to and will face during the reconstruction stage. On that basis...2023-05-261h 00
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyRegional Economic Prospects 2023The much-anticipated EBRD Regional Economic Prospects were back in the new panel discussion format for a special EBRD Annual Meeting 2023 edition. The interactive discussion covered the latest economic forecasts for the regions where the EBRD invests. EBRD Chief Economist Beata Javorcik discussed with outstanding regional experts the extraordinary challenges that policymakers are confronted with in the world of relentless inflationary pressures and repeated economic crises.
Keynote speaker
Beata Javorcik, Chief Economist, EBRD
Moderator
Jonathan Charles, Strategic Communications Consultant and Broadcaster
Speakers
Sergei Guriev, Professor of Economics, Institut d'Études Politiques
Heike Harmgart, Managing Director, Southern and Eastern Mediterranean, EBRD2023-05-2455 min
Trade Finance TalksFirst cross-border factoring facility between Armenia and Georgia supported by EBRDDuring the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD) 32nd Annual Meeting and Business Forum in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Trade Finance Global spoke with several industry leaders to learn more about the particulars of a first-of-its-kind transaction.
Access here:
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2023-05-1620 min
ATALKS - Where Sustainability Has a VoiceSustainability at the EBRD | Adonai Herrera Martinez | ATALK 01Adonai Herrera-Martínez, Director for Environment and Sustainability at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is the guest speaker in this episode of ATalk.
Adonai shares his insights on how finance is growing to include both biodiversity and nature, EBRD commitments on green energy/ projects & their policy of economic inclusion, the outward-looking nature of the EBRD and how the combination of environmental, societal and governance considerations are vital to achieve a green transition.2023-04-1449 min
Слушай,Истинный масштаб компании | TEDx, USAID, EBRD | Жанна ПрашкевичС вами подкаст "Слушай" в котором мы обсуждаем бизнес и маркетинг, это 17-ый выпуск со специалистом в построении бизнес процессов, сервиса, фасилитатор, спикер TEDx, USAID, EBRD, а так же автор книг - Жанна Прашкевич.
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2023-02-231h 15
CultureCalls: Dialing into the FutureCultureCalls 17 | ft Nadia Petkova - Director, Regional Network, SME F&D at EBRDWonderful to speak about employee well-being with Nadia Petkova, Director of SME Finance & Development at the EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development). Listen to the full audio interview for her inspiring tales about building well-being across their diverse network, how they rapidly stepped up to help small businesses in response to the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, and how these challenges have actually engendered a deeper sense of community in the team.
#podcast #culture #CultureDueDiligence #KnowYourCCQ #CultureCalls2023-01-3123 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyUkraine Event Special: Investment in the real economy and the role of the EBRDNearly nine months after the Russian invasion, the war has seriously affected Ukraine’s economy, which is facing daunting tasks.
These tasks require collective efforts and coordination among the country’s policymakers, businesses and international community, including the EBRD. The main objective of this discussion is to bring together representatives of key stakeholders to discuss optimal policies and necessary investments to help the process of Ukraine’s stabilisation and rebuilding.2022-12-1256 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyUkraine Event Special: Sustainable macroeconomic policies for the war and beyondNearly nine months after the Russian invasion, the war has seriously affected Ukraine’s economy, which is facing daunting tasks. Macroeconomic and financial sector stability are essential for the continued functioning of the economy and maintaining the war effort. Supporting and stimulating the real economy are the key elements of its economic sustainability.
Participants:
Odile Renaud-Basso, President, EBRD
Tymofiy Mylovanov, President, Kyiv School of Economics
Torbjörn Becker, Professor of economics, Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics – SITE and CEPR
Beata Javorcik, Chief Economist, EBRD (moderator)2022-12-0755 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyLaunch Of the EBRD Transition Report 2022 - 23 Business UnusualLaunch Of the EBRD Transition Report 2022 - 23 Business Unusual by EBRD2022-11-241h 19
Fearonomics2022-23 EBRD Transition Report launch Business UnusualListen to the live launch of the Transition Report 2022-23: Business Unusual.\
A global pandemic, lockdowns, supply-chain disruption, war in Europe, rocketing gas prices, forced mass migration, high inflation, growing debt burdens, reshoring, friendshoring … This non-exhaustive – yet quite exhausting – list would be enough of a challenge for governments and businesses to manage over a decade or more. And yet, all of this has happened over the past three years, with the prospect of more turbulence to come.
It is clear that there is no going back to the pre-pandemic “business as usual”. Our approach to work has bee...2022-11-241h 19
Ja, PreduzetnikJa, Preduzetnik Specijal - Razvoj poslovanja uz Evropsku banku za obnovu i razvoj (EBRD)Snimak sa konferencije Ja, Preduzetnik, održane 02-04.11.2022., na kome Aleksandra Miladinović, menadžerka EBRD savetodavnog tima u Srbiji i regionalni koordinator za Zapadni Balkan pojašnjava na koji način možete iskoristiti sve ono što EBRD nudi kako biste uspešno razvili svoje poslovanje.2022-11-2135 min
Magyar Közgazdasági TársaságV4+Románia Befektetői Szeminárium - Sergei Guriev (EBRD) előadásaA V4-es országok és Románia pénzügyi államtitkárainak és jegybanki alelnökeinek részvételével V4+Románia Befektetői Szemináriumot szervezett a Magyar Közgazdasági Társaság 2019. március 28-án, csütörtökön Budapesten, az Akadémián.
Jelentős problémát okozhat az egész kelet-közép-európai térségnek az Egyesült Államok és Kína közötti kereskedelmi feszültség eszkalálódása, amely az egyik legnagyobb világgazdasági kockázatot jelenti ma az Európai Újjáépítési és Fejlesztési Bank (EBRD) fők...2022-10-1348 min
FearonomicsA Cold Winter Ahead? Latest economic forecasts from the EBRDThis special episode in Fearonomics series looks at the economic risks of recent geopolitical turmoil.
Ths live event, where the EBRD launched their economic forecasts, analysed the impact of recent turbulence on the economic outlook, including fallout from Russia’s war on Ukraine, the energy crisis and rising inflation.
Participants:
Beata Javorcik - Chief Economist, EBRD
Sergei Guriev – Professor, Sciences Po Provost
Heike Harmgart – EBRD Managing Director, SEMED
Jonathan Charles (Moderator) - former EBRD Managing Director, Communications
2022-09-2856 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyA Cold Winter Ahead? Latest economic forecasts from the EBRDThis special episode in Fearonomics series looks at the economic risks of recent geopolitical turmoil.
Ths live event, where the EBRD launched their economic forecasts, analysed the impact of recent turbulence on the economic outlook, including fallout from Russia’s war on Ukraine, the energy crisis and rising inflation.
Participants:
Beata Javorcik - Chief Economist, EBRD
Sergei Guriev – Professor, Sciences Po Provost
Heike Harmgart – EBRD Managing Director, SEMED
Jonathan Charles (Moderator) - former EBRD Managing Director, Communications2022-09-2856 min
BNR Perestrojkast | BNR#137: Caspar Veldkamp (bestuurslid EBRD)Zes gesprekken over de (on)overbrugbare kloof tussen oost en west. Met zes nationale én internationale gasten. Over de verhoudingen in Europa, die door de Russische oorlog in Oekraïne op z'n kop gezet. Met als tweede Perestroj-gast: Caspar Veldkamp, Nederlandse bewindvoerder bij de Europese Bank voor Wederopbouw en Ontwikkeling (EBRD). "Op 14 november hoorde ik al dat Rusland een oorlog zou starten." Floris en Geert Jan praten met Veldkamp over de wederopbouw van Oekraïne. Dat klinkt gek, maar daar wordt al aan gewerkt. De EBRD, ook wel bekend als de 'Oost-Europa-bank', is daar één van de voort...2022-07-2748 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyFearonomics: the cost of discriminationRate, review and subscribe to our podcast
At a time when we’re living through the highest inflation in decades, a cost of living crisis and dramatically falling rates of growth, the new Fearonomics episode looks at the cost of discrimination to the global economy.
Despite the recent advancement in the equality of rights and inclusion, 45 per cent of American workers have experienced discrimination in the past year, according to Gallup.
The World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law 2022 report states that around 2.4 billion women of working age lack equal economic opportunities and 178 countries maintain legal barriers that prevent thei...2022-06-2144 minFearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyFearonomics: why we fear migrationRate, review and subscribe to our podcast
The new episode of the EBRD’s Fearonomics podcast looks at the most common fears around migration.
The rate of growth of displaced people in the world is alarming. A 100 million is the latest UNHCR estimate -which equals to 1 per cent of the global population.
This stark anti-record reflects the precarious state of the world we are in.
The War on Ukraine, other conflicts, human rights violations, persecutions and violence are behind the unprecedented movement of people.
At the same, as the Covid-19 restrictions are being lifted across the world, the economic migration is...2022-06-1345 min
The Banker PodcastThe Banker at EBRD AM 2022: What concerns you most in this turbulent world?The beginning of 2022 has been among the most turbulent in recent memory. Since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, millions of people have fled the country. Alongside billions of dollars worth of damage in Ukraine, the war has caused global prices for everything from fuel to food to soar. Multilateral institutions have subsequently downgraded their economic forecasts for many countries around the world.In this joint podcast from fDi Intelligence and the Banker, co-hosts Alex Irwin-Hunt and Burhan Khadbai discuss what is concerning policymakers, bankers and investors most during this period of uncertainty. Based...2022-05-2629 min
fDi PodcastfDi at EBRD AM 2022: What concerns you most in this turbulent world?The beginning of 2022 has been among the most turbulent in recent memory. Since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, millions of people have fled the country. Alongside billions of dollars worth of damage in Ukraine, the war has caused global prices for everything from fuel to food to soar. Multilateral institutions have subsequently downgraded their economic forecasts for many countries around the world.In this joint podcast from fDi Intelligence and the Banker, co-hosts Alex Irwin-Hunt and Burhan Khadbai discuss what is concerning policymakers, bankers and investors most during this period of uncertainty. Based on...2022-05-2529 minFearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyFearonomics: the future of pandemicsRate, review and subscribe to our podcast
The new episode of the EBRD’s Fearonomics podcast explores the risks of future pandemics.
With new cases of monkeypox globally detected, the looming risks of growing anti-microbial resistance and the impact of climate crisis, is the next pandemic just around the corner?
The IMF has recently forecasted the global cost of the Covid-19 pandemic will rise beyond $12,5 trillion through 2024, fuelled by vast gaps in vaccination rates, widening divergence between rich and poor and disproportionate gender impacts.
But we have yet to suffer many of the hidden costs of the pandemic.
Such as th...2022-05-2040 minFearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyFearonomics: why should we fear inflationRate, review, download our podcast
In the new episode of the EBRD’s Fearonomics podcast Jonathan Charles, the EBRD’s Managing Director of Communications, Sergei Guriev, former EBRD Chief Economist and now Professor of Economics at Science Po, and Beata Javorcik, the EBRD’s current Chief Economist, examine the threat to our economies from inflation and whether we risk an era of stagflation.
Policymakers had to step up support for businesses and the population at large when Covid-19 was at its worse. The strain on public budgets was palpable – even before Russia’s war on Ukraine.
The latest IMF forecast sees “war...2022-05-0540 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyFearonomics: death of globalisation?Rate, review and subscribe to our podcast
The new episode of the EBRD’s Fearonomics podcast explores the risks of rolling back globalisation.
Globalisation connected the world’s economies as never before. Cross-border trade in goods and services became a routine.
The financial crisis of 15 years ago highlighted how fast contagion can spread around the globe.
The Covid pandemic exposed how fragile supply chains can be. And now Russia’s war on Ukraine suggests that economic links can be a source of weakness, not strength.
Listen to Jonathan Charles, the EBRD’s Managing Director of Communications, in discussion with Sergei Guriev...2022-04-2034 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyFearonomics: will the global energy crisis end the shift to green?Fearonomics: will global energy crisis end the shift to green?
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In its second episode the EBRD’s new Fearonomics podcast is exploring what are the risks and solutions to the global energy crisis.
Listen to Jonathan Charles, EBRD’s Managing Director, Communications, Sergei Guriev, EBRD former Chief Economist and professor of economics at Science Po and Beata Javorcik, EBRD’s Chief Economist (current) and also professor of Economics at Oxford University discussing
As Europe scrambles to find alternatives to Russian gas, some countries face the prospect of rationing and even fuel poverty.
Energy security, w...2022-04-0738 min
Business Game ChangersWhistleblower Blows Lid off Money Laundering, Stolen Treasuries, EBRD Coverups Paid by YOU (2of2)John Christmas, courageous bank whistleblower, exposes a big part of the worldwide corruption scheme. He explains how the banking system in Latvia, protected by the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (CBRD) and other institutions, laundered money for the KGB mafia and facilitated the swindle of the entire Ukraine treasury which was stolen in 2014. The KGB mafia and other criminal clients were known for the worst crimes perpetrated by humanity including trafficking, drugs and state looting. We discuss the protection the EBRD doles out to criminal banking systems and how the EBRD is paid by YOU; the U.S. tax...2022-04-0735 minBusiness Game ChangersWhistleblower Blows Lid off Money Laundering, Stolen Treasuries, EBRD Coverups Paid by YOU (1of2)John Christmas, courageous bank whistleblower, exposes a big part of the worldwide corruption scheme. He explains how the banking system in Latvia, protected by the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (CBRD) and other institutions, laundered money for the KGB mafia and facilitated the swindle of the entire Ukraine treasury which was stolen in 2014. The KGB mafia and other criminal clients were known for the worst crimes perpetrated by humanity including trafficking, drugs and state looting. We discuss the protection the EBRD doles out to criminal banking systems and how the EBRD is paid by YOU; the U.S. tax...2022-04-0644 minFearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyFearonomics: can we fix the looming food crisis?In its first episode Fearonomics: can we fix the looming food crisis? Jonathan Charles, EBRD’s Managing Director, Communications, will be discussing the most pressing issues with Sergei Guriev, EBRD former Chief Economist and professor of economics at Science Po and Beata Javorcik, EBRD’s Chief Economist (current) and also professor of Economics at Oxford University.
They will explore a wide range of economic fears from global famine to energy security and the death of globalisation.
In its first episode Fearonomics will be exploring whether the looming food crises is avoidable.
Even before the war on Ukraine and the pandemic acco...2022-04-0134 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyTransition Report 2021-22 launchSystem upgrade: Delivering the digital dividend
Our report explores how advanced digitalisation has affected the economies where we invest.
The digitalisation process is destined to continue and will remain one of the key forces shaping developments around the world – including in the EBRD regions. It is therefore quite fitting that this year’s Transition Report is devoted to that subject. It explores the size of the digital divides in EBRD countries, the digital infrastructure and its link to firm performance, teleworking, artificial intelligence and the labour force as well as fintech and banks in transition. The report also introduces a fina...2021-11-171h 30
FearonomicsCOP26: what’s at stake for the EBRD regionsListen, download and rate our podcast
COP26, or the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, will bring international stakeholders together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It takes place next month in Glasgow.
The stake are very high, as the climate emergency, highlighted in the IPCC report from earlier this year, requires urgent and decisive action from the world’s governments.
The climate emergency cannot remain an abstract notion but must become a strong driver of macroeconomic policy if we a...2021-10-081h 26
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyCOP26: what’s at stake for the EBRD regionsListen, download and rate our podcast
COP26, or the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, will bring international stakeholders together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It takes place next month in Glasgow.
The stake are very high, as the climate emergency, highlighted in the IPCC report from earlier this year, requires urgent and decisive action from the world’s governments.
The climate emergency cannot remain an abstract notion but must become a strong driver of macroeconomic policy if we are to avoid the “hell of earth,” the report conclu...2021-10-081h 26
cc: PodcastEBRD VC: Growth Equity for Technology Companies From Central Europe to Central Asiacc: growth journeys from emerging ecosystems to global markets.
Zaya is a Principal at the EBRD Venture Capital, a €200M fund focused on companies from 38 countries across EMEA. She has lead investments into a number of great companies like Plum, Pollfish and Picsart.
What’s in this episode?
1) Background of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
2) Reasons for setting up a VC fund for direct investments
3) Comparing different regions from talent and opportunity perspectives
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Yout...2021-09-2026 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyRobots v Covid-19: the future of work?Robots v Covid-19: the future of work?
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“Telecommuting”, “quaranteams”, “doomscrolling”, “upperwear” and curating one’s Zoom background have all become a part of our new remote working reality. If we were unnerved by the way digital technology was transforming our world before the pandemic, Covid-19 has only made the speed of change even faster,
It is estimated that in the next five years close to 85 million jobs may be displaced by algorithms, artificial intelligence and robotics.
According to the World Economic Forum Jobs Report 2020, “automation, in tandem with the COVID-19 recession, is creating a ‘double-disruption’ sce...2021-05-2538 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyCan finance reduce pollution during the Covid-19 crisis?Rate, review and download our podcast
With the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP 26) scheduled for November, governments are under growing pressure to meet their national commitments to decarbonise.
Green transition at scale will require a lot of collaboration and, in a global economy still in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic, finance will have a key role to play in ‘building back better’ and ‘building back greener’.
For instance, one proposal as to how to fund a green recovery from Covid-19 is through carbon taxation. It can change the status quo by encouraging investments in innovation and clim...2021-05-1745 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyThe EBRD at 30: what’s next?Rate, review and download our podcast
On the 15 April 1991, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development opened its doors for business for the first time.
It was conceived by its founders as ‘a new and unique structure of co‑operation’ for a continent still recovering from the shock of the collapse of communism.
Its mission then, as now, was to further progress towards market-oriented economies and promote private and entrepreneurial initiative.
So, at the age of 30, how is the EBRD doing? What are the challenges for its future? What has the EBRD taught some of its former staff?
This special discus...2021-04-161h 25
FearonomicsThe EBRD at 30: what’s next?Rate, review and download our podcast
On the 15April 1991, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development opened its doors for business for the first time.
It was conceived by its founders as ‘a new and unique structure of co‑operation’ for a continent still recovering from the shock of the collapse of communism.
Its mission then, as now, was to further progress towards market-oriented economies and promote private and entrepreneurial initiative.
So, at the age of 30, how is the EBRD doing? What are the challenges for its future? What has the EBRD t...2021-04-161h 25
Energy Unplugged by AuroraEP.39 Harry Boyd-Carpenter, Director, Head of Energy EMEA EBRDIn this episode, our CEO John Feddersen speaks with Harry Boyd-Carpenter – Director, Head of Energy EMEA at EBRD; and Peter Baum – Project Leader in our Berlin office.
Harry leads the landing and investment team at EBRD where he focuses on deploying capital investments in regions where investment is more challenging (including eastern Europe and northern Africa). Peter focuses on our activities in eastern and south-eastern Europe, and he has previously been an Analyst for Energy Efficiency and Climate Change at EBRD.
Main topics include:
•EBRD’s role in driving the energy transition
•Politics and...2021-03-1154 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyHow to measure impact of multilateral lendingRate, review and download our podcast
The Multilateral development banks were set up after the Second World War to be the original impact investors, fighting poverty, inequality or more currently climate change.
“To demonstrate our impact is crucial at a time where multilateralism is often challenged, when there is a tendency to think that, we are more effective when we work at a country level than at the global level. And I think that the ability to show that and acting in this mutual framework is helpful to deliver some impacts on values because we are building on a very go...2021-03-051h 25
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyCombatting inequality during and after Covid-19Rate, review and download our podcast
Inequality is emerging as the “biggest policy challenge” during and after the Covid-19 pandemic, with the World Bank estimating that extreme global poverty is to rise for the first time in over 20 years.
“The coronavirus pandemic is possibly the first so-called ‘global event’”, said Professor Branko Milanovic in the latest EBRD Economics Talk.
Sir Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize laureate, also took part in the discussion on the nature of inequality and how it will be aggravated by the pandemic.
EBRD Chief Economist Beata Javorcik sounded the alarm about coronavirus’s impact on emerging markets across the EBR...2021-01-221h 28
Pokretači Podcast#97 Dejan Tonić iz EBRD o izazovima i šansama za pokretačeZa kraj 2020e, Dejan Tonić, saradnik i specijalista za projekte u okviru programa vezanih za mala preduzeća Evropske banke za obnovu i razvoj (EBRD). Pričali smo o tome šta je naučio iz rada sa regionalnim pokretačima, sa kojim se izazovima susreću ali i koje prilike mogu da iskoriste.
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Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyThe State Strikes Back: what is the role of the state post Covid-19?In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the key role of the state amidst managing public health and economic disaster. However, if the role of state is growing, is it actually a good thing? These are just a few of the questions discussed in this special live launch of 2020-21 Transition Report: The State Strike Back.
EBRD's Anthony Williams was join by a great line up of guests:
Mariana Mazzucato is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL) where she is Founding Director of the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP).
Dani Rodrik is...2020-11-111h 34
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyThe growing mountain of debt: how Covid-19 is creating a big pile of debt and what to do with itRate, review and download our podcast
It’s been almost a year since reports of a new strain of coronavirus first emerged. Even back then the IMF was sounding the alarm about the high and rising levels of debt in developing economies.
Today, after lockdowns and severe economic contractions, debt is growing almost as fast as the coronavirus pandemic is spreading.
“It’s not the moment to be timid on debt crisis resolution,’ says the World Bank’s Chief Economist, Carmen Reinhart.
“Proposals need to be bold in terms of delivering debt reduction for the debtors. Because, if not, … risks of the lost de...2020-10-291h 26
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyTrade finance during the coronavirus pandemicRate, review and download our podcast
The coronavirus pandemic has broken supply chains, closed off borders and disrupted international trade routes.
Trade, which in recent years accounted for 54% to 60% of global economic activity, is now set to have a drop in global trade flows by 13% to 32%, according to the World Trade Organisation.
Trade is essential for saving lives and livelihoods in times of crisis, as seen with shortages of personal protective equipment, medical supplies and food... This crisis has exposed how vulnerable these connections really are.
What lessons have we learned and how can we reenergise world trade in order...2020-09-181h 21
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyFiscal policy and the post Covid-19 social contractRate, review and download our podcast
The full cost of the coronavirus pandemic is still unknown. But state spending has skyrocketed as governments try to protect whole sectors and industries which were put into induced comas this spring.
How will we pay our debts incurred during this crisis? What will be the price of recovery?
In this coronavirus special, EBRD Managing Director of Communications, Jonathan Charles and EBRD Chief Economist Beata Javorcik were joined by:
Willem H. Buiter, the former Citibank Chief Economist and Member of the Monetary Policy committee of the Bank of England (and former EBRD Chief Economist...2020-07-101h 25
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyIs technology in the era of Covid-19 a threat to democracy?The coronavirus pandemic has locked populations inside their houses and put millions under the spotlight of a new state-controlled panopticon, watching us and our movements in the name of public safety.
Our Pocket Dilemma podcast presenters, Jonathan Charles and Kerrie Law, were joined on Zoom by:
Peter Pomerantsev- Senior Fellow, LSE. Author: This is Not Propaganda, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible
Samuel Woolley- Professor, University of Texas at Austin, Founding Director, Digital Intelligence Lab and the author of “The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth”
They discussed the ethical aspects of technology, incl...2020-06-1544 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyWill capitalism survive the coronavirus pandemic?Rate and review our Coronavirus and Capitalism special podcast episode
Joseph Stiglitz, Economist and Professor, Columbia University, Beata Javorcik, EBRD Chief Economist, and Roger Cohen, the Athens Democracy Forum Host and Advisory Board member and New York Times Op-Ed columnist, discussed how and whether capitalism will survive the coronavirus pandemic.
In only a few months, the coronavirus pandemic has seriously shifted the balance of power between the state and the private sector. How is this impacting our politics and economies?
This Pocket Dilemmas podcast special on capitalism in the post-Covid-19 era was organised by the EBRD and the Athens Democracy...2020-06-081h 11Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyThe future of capitalism post-coronavirusRate, review and download our podcast
Will the coronavirus pandemic change capitalism forever? Could such changes lead to economies and societies which are more cohesive, inclusive and fairer than those of the recent past?
In this coronavirus special, EBRD Managing Director of Communications, Jonathan Charles and EBRD Chief Economist Beata Javorcik were joined by:
Sir Paul Collier, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and a Professorial Fellow of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. His latest book is “The Future of Capitalism: Facing The New Anxieties” (2018).
Colin Mayer CBE, Peter Moores Professor of Manage...2020-05-191h 23Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyCoronavirus and the future of trust and populismThe recent 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer revealed a dramatic turnaround in levels of popular trust in governments, from their lowest to highest ever recorded levels. Indeed, government is now the institution most people trust, for the first time in the survey’s 20-year history.
How brittle is this new found faith in those who govern us? Will it outlive the peak of the
global coronavirus pandemic or will it decline as our societies return to relative normality? Could populism and distrust of ‘elites’ return with a vengeance later on?
Our Pocket Dilemma presenters, Jonathan Charles and Kerrie Law, were joined on Zoom b...2020-05-1449 minFearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyThe Coronavirus pandemic and the future: a conversation with Ivan KrastevRate and review our Coronavirus special podcast episode
The coronavirus pandemic has already turned global politics and economics upside down. Are there lessons to be learnt from previous crises? What will happen to the nation state and how will Covid-19 impact the European project? What happens when millions of people are forced to stay at home and have time to imagine a world run differently than in the past?
In this Coronavirus special live event join us for a preview of Ivan Krastev’s new book on the coronavirus pandemic and its implications for Europe. He was also joined by EB...2020-05-061h 12Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyWhat does the coronavirus pandemic mean for gender inequality?Rate, review and subscribe to our podcast Pocket Dilemmas
The coronavirus pandemic is changing our attitude to far more than just public health. The ways we work, socialise and travel may not be the same again for some time.
But does the impact of Covid-19 affect men and women differently? Coronavirus seems to have a higher fatality rate in men. At the same time, women may suffer more from the economic fallout from the crisis, be vulnerable to domestic abuse and often have to provide the increased amount of childcare which comes with lockdowns.
Our presenters Jonathan Charles and Kerrie...2020-05-0450 minFearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyWhat does the coronavirus pandemic mean for impact investing?Rate, review and subscribe to our podcast Pocket Dilemmas
For all the loss of human life and damage to the economy inflicted by the coronavirus pandemic, could the disease herald opportunities as well as threats? Could now be the time for socially responsible and impact investing to transform the global economy for the post-Covid-19 era?
Our presenters, Jonathan Charles and Kerrie Law, were joined on Zoom by the EBRD’s Alexia Latortue and Stuart Trow to discuss whether we can make investing for good the new norm.
Like what you hear? Review our podcast on iTunes, email us at dilemmas@eb...2020-04-2745 minFearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyHow will the coronavirus pandemic affect the global economy?Rate and review EBRD/ LSE IGA joint podcast
The economic and political impact of the coronavirus pandemic is growing more dramatic by the day. Millions of businesses and the jobs they support are under threat. Civil liberties in many countries are being drastically curtailed as governments fight to control the spread of Covid-19.
How will all this change the world economy and what does it mean for globalisation as we know it?
In this Coronavirus special live event, jointly produced with the Institute for Global Affairs at the LSE, our Pocket Dilemmas host, Jonathan Charles is joined by EBRD Chief...2020-04-171h 21Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyCan open borders survive the coronavirus pandemic?Rate, review and subscribe to our podcast Pocket Dilemmas
More and more countries have responded to the coronavirus pandemic by closing themselves off from the rest of the world and shutting their borders, either partially or altogether. Even the European Union’s Schengen zone has reintroduced border checks.
Our presenters, Jonathan Charles and Kerrie Law, were joined on Zoom by our Principal Economist, Cevat Aksoy Giray, and the Associate Director of the Centre for Global Development, Helen Dempster, to discuss the future of open borders and freedom of movement across them. What happens when the pandemic dies down and, eventually, co...2020-04-1539 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyTo reform or not to reform: the populism dilemmaRate, review and subscribe to our podcast Pocket Dilemmas
We say goodbye to our former Chief Economist Sergei Guriev and look back at his 3 years at the EBRD.
This special episode, recorded in August, focuses on the main themes of his time with us: reforms, democracy and economic growth.
Join Jonathan Charles and Kerrie Law in conversation with Sergei Guriev, now a Professor of Economics at Sciences Po in Paris, to find out what it’s really like to be the Chief Economist of a major multilateral development bank.2019-12-1146 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyWhat happened to the hopes and dreams of 1989?Rate, review and subscribe to our podcast Pocket Dilemmas
Join Jonathan Charles and Kerry Law on a journey to the region which breached the Berlin Wall and tore down the Iron Curtain in 1989.
Where are the peoples of Germany, Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union three decades on? We ask in this very special episode of our Pocket Dilemmas podcast.
How far have their dreams of freedoms and prosperity been realised?
And what is the future for market economics, democracy and political pluralism in these EBRD regions?
Our special guests, BBC Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg, author of...2019-11-0745 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyHow to make Chernobyl safe for the futureRate, review and subscribe to our podcast, Pocket Dilemmas
What are the lessons to be learnt from Chernobyl? How does one decommission a power plant which has been the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident and manage its legacy?
The EBRD has been working on making the Chernobyl nuclear power plant safe for over 25 years, as explained in the latest episode of the Pocket Dilemmas podcast. Taking part are:
• Simon Evans of the EBRD’s Nuclear Safety team
• Irina Velichko, a lead engineer at the site who joins us live from the site
As usual, the hosts of the Pock...2019-06-1936 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyWhat is the future of poverty?Rate, review and subscribe to our podcast Pocket Dilemmas
Earlier this year Bill Gates tweeted an infographic showing ‘how much life has improved over the last two centuries,’ particularly as measured by an apparent decline in extreme poverty. The graph provoked fierce debate amongst economists across the globe.
In this episode of Pocket Dilemmas our presenters, Jonathan Charles and Kerrie Law, were joined by our Chief Economist, Sergei Guriev and the Chief Economist of the UK Department for International Development, Rachel Glennerster to discuss the past, present and future of poverty.
Like what you hear? Review our podcast on iTunes, emai...2019-05-2929 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyMind the LGBTQI pay gap!Rate, review and subscribe to our podcast, Pocket Dilemmas
How does sexual orientation affect the pay gap? While we often hear of the gender pay gap, we set about exploring how sexual preferences impact salaries and rights in the workplace and elsewhere
On this week’s episode of Pocket Dilemmas we speak to Kitt Carpenter Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University, and Cevat Aksoy, one of our economists, on the LGBTQI pay gap and were surprised by some of the findings from the research.
For example, on average gay men in the United States earn 11 per cent less than heterosexual me...2019-05-2134 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyMegatrends: Is the future already here?Rate, review and subscribe to our podcast Pocket Dilemmas
We recorded the most recent episode of Pocket Dilemmas in front of a live audience in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital Sarajevo, host of last week’s 2019 Annual Meeting and Business Forum.
Our presenters, Jonathan Charles and Kerrie Law, led a discussion of the most pressing challenges of our time - climate change, technology, urbanisation, resource scarcity and global power shifts- inside the country’s Parliament Building. There was also a Q&A session with the audience.
The line up of guest for this episode included:
• Alexia Latortue, EBRD Managing Director, Corporat...2019-05-1451 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyTaking the cryptic out of cryptocurrenciesRate, review and subscribe to our podcast, Pocket Dilemmas
What is the future of money? Are cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin a modern-day miracle or a mirage? We invited our very own Stuart Trow and Zeynep Gurguc from Imperial College London to help us resolve this week’s dilemma on our podcast Pocket Dilemmas.
We also talked to Jelena Madir, Chief Counsel and our main blockchain expert, and Urmas Peiker, the founder of Funderbeam, the world's first primary and secondary marketplace for earlystage investments, secured by the blockchain.
As usual, the hosts of the Pocket Dilemmas podcast are Jonathan Charles and Ke...2019-04-3029 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyAge against the machine and the future of workRate, review and subscribe to our podcast Pocket Dilemmas
What is the future of work? How will technology, automation and AI change our jobs and will we and our children actually have jobs the way we do now? Will, in fact, the future be a battle between us and the machines?
This week we have Jason Furman from Harvard Kennedy School and our Chief Economist Sergei Guriev as our guests to help us resolve this dilemma on our podcast Pocket Dilemmas.
As usual, the hosts of the Pocket Dilemmas podcast are Jonathan Charles and Kerrie Law.
Like what you hear...2019-04-2330 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyShould algorithms rule the world?Rate, review and subscribe to our podcast Pocket Dilemmas
Should algorithms rule the world? Maybe they do so already and we just never noticed. Will they in fact do a better job than mere humans? What are the ethical implications of the algorithm use for the policy makers?
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We invited Jonnie Penn, Google Technology Policy fellow, and Dawn Duhaney, Partnerships Manager at UK Wellcome Trust to be our guests and help us resolve this dilemma on our podcast Pocket Dilemmas.
As usual, the hosts of the Pocket Dilemmas podcast are Jonathan Charles and Kerrie Law
Like what you hear...2019-04-1528 min
FearonomicsThe Brexit dilemma and its impact on the EBRD regionsEpisode One, dedicated to the origins of Brexit and its impact on the EBRD regions ( over 30 economies inside and outside the EU), was recorded in front of a live audience at our headquarters at the heart of the City of London on 3rd April and you can now listen to it here.
Are there winners and losers? What do people outside the EU think about Brexit? We have all the answers here.
The Pocket Dilemma hosts, Jonathan Charles and Kerrie Law, welcomed a great line up of guests, including:
Sergei Guriev, EBRD Chief Economist
Elina...2019-04-0451 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyThe Brexit dilemma and its impact on the EBRD regionsEpisode One, dedicated to the origins of Brexit and its impact on the EBRD regions ( over 30 economies inside and outside the EU), was recorded in front of a live audience at our headquarters at the heart of the City of London on 3rd April and you can now listen to it here.
Are there winners and losers? What do people outside the EU think about Brexit? We have all the answers here.
The Pocket Dilemma hosts, Jonathan Charles and Kerrie Law, welcomed a great line up of guests, including:
Sergei Guriev, EBRD Chief Economist
Elina Ribakova, Deputy Chief Economist, IIF...2019-04-0451 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyPocket Dilemmas: big answers to big questionsWe're launching our new podcast, Pocket Dilemmas, dedicated to uncovering answers to the biggest questions of our time.
We begin new season with a very special live event on Why Brexit and its impact on EBRD countries, recorded on 3 April in the Auditorium.
Here is a little taster of what’s coming up in the series from the power of algorithms to the the future of work.2019-04-0201 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyPrivatisation and state capitalismPrivatisation and state capitalism by EBRD2018-06-2816 min
FSRWorld Forum on Energy Regulation 2018 | Aida Sitdikova (EBRD)In the framework of the 7th World Forum on Energy Regulation (WFER), ICER Women in Energy and FSR teamed up to ‘give a voice’ to women professionals actively contributing to the event.
Aida Sitdikova is EBRD Director for Energy and Natural Resources for Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia. In this podcast, Aida explains the ‘energy transition’ in the Eurasian and Caucasus context. EBRD is committed to supporting a regional shift towards affordable, secure, reliable and sustainable energy despite the specific geopolitical context and constraints. However, fossil fuels are still largely used, have a strong political impact and represent large employment sectors...2018-06-0212 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyThinking about the world in 2018In this special ‘live’ edition of our podcast Pocket Economics, the EBRD’s Jonathan Charles discusses the challenges our world is currently facing with the FT’s Neil Buckley and, also from the EBRD, Sergei Guriev, Alexia Latortue and Tarek Osman.2018-05-1728 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyThe future of development finance- part 2In the second part of our review of the future of development finance Owen Barder, Vice President at the Center for Global Development, discusses its current goals and challenges with Jonathan Charles. What needs to be done and what can the EBRD and other Multilateral Development Banks do better? Can we deliver the Sustainable Development Goals by their 2030 deadline?2018-04-2517 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyThe future of development financeWhat is the future of development finance? How important is the private sector to our efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals? In this edition of our ‘Pocket Economics’ podcast, Jonathan Charles discusses these and other topics with a very special guest, Sir Suma Chakrabarti, the EBRD President.2018-03-2024 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyYouth and gender inclusionOn our new ‘Pocket Economics’ podcast: Youth and Gender Inclusion, we discuss equal opportunities in an unequal, increasingly changing world.
Listen to our EBRD’s lead inclusion economist, Barbara Rambousek in conversation with Jonathan Charles.2018-01-3115 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyPrivate equity in emerging marketsHow can equity help companies? Listen to Çağatay Bircan, Principal Economist at the EBRD, on impact investing, the recent trends in private equity and whether equity has grown in emerging markets.2017-12-2113 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyThe Great Soviet ExperimentWhat lessons can be drawn from the 1917 Russian Revolution and the seven decades of Soviet rule that followed it? Listen to a very special episode of Pocket Economics with the EBRD’s very own Sergei Guriev.2017-11-091h 05
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyInnovation in firms, a recipe for growthHow do we define and measure innovation in firms? Why are companies afraid of innovating? What holds them back and how can we boost creativity, the driving force behind innovation? Listen to the latest episode of Pocket Economics with the EBRD’s Director of Research, Ralph de Haas.2017-09-2515 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyPocket Economics: Why transition mattersDescription: How should countries make the transition to market economies? How should they respond to the challenges of globalisation? Listen to the latest episode of Pocket Economics with the EBRD’s Chief Economist Sergei Guriev.2017-07-2016 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyPocket Economics: A new social contract for the Middle East and North AfricaHow has the idea of a social contract been interpreted in the MENA region? Did the uprisings in the Arab world in 2010-11 come as a surprise to economists? Listen to the latest episode of Pocket Economics with the EBRD’s Chief Economist Sergei Guriev and the World Bank’s Chief Economist Shanta Devarajan.2017-06-2613 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyPocket Economics: Economic inclusion or equal opportunities for allWhy is economic inclusion one of the defining challenges of our time across the EBRD regions and beyond? What is the EBRD doing to close the inclusion gap? How does it affect the democratic process and institutions? Listen to the latest episode of Pocket Economics with the EBRD’s Lead economist focusing on Inclusion Barbara Rambousek.2017-05-2212 min_EBRDAM17_HEADSHOT.jpeg)
bne IntelliNewsWoE: Wither the ruble and Russia's reforms? Sergey Guriev, EBRD chief economistWhere is the ruble headed this year? The outlook is particularly unclear as both oil prices and the Kremlin’s economic strategy remain volatile. At the same time Russia is about to adopted a long-term economic reform strategy, but there is a big debate within the Kremlin on which direction is best for the country. The choice boils down to prudence or crony capitalism, argues Sergey Guriev, the EBRD’s chief economist and one time political exile from Russia. Ben Aris, editor-in-chief, bne IntelliNews Sergey Guriev, chief economists at the EBRD2017-05-1900 min
bne IntelliNewsWoE: The development of capital markets in CEE remains a mixed bag - Andre Kuusvek, local currency and capital markets development at EBRDThe development of capital markets in emerging Europe remains a mixed bag and is incomplete across the board. However, a lot of progress has been made and these markets will play a crucial role in spurring the development of countries in the region. bne IntelliNews editor-in-chief Ben Aris sat down with Andre Kuusvek, the EBRD’s director of local currency and capital markets development, on the sidelines of the development bank’s annual meeting in Nicosia to discuss the issue. Ben Aris, editor-in-chief, bne IntelliNews Andre Kuusvek, local currency and capital markets development at EBRD2017-05-1500 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyPocket Economics: Why ‘secular stagnation’ mattersWhat does secular stagnation mean for a market economy? What causes it and how could countries overcome it? Listen to the latest episode of Pocket Economics with the EBRD’s Sergei Guriev.2017-04-1016 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyPocket Economics: How to make economies more resilientWhat does resilience mean for a market economy? How can it become truly resilient to shocks and global challenges? Listen to the latest episode of Pocket Economics with the EBRD’s Mattia Romani and Bojan Markovic.2017-03-2018 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyPocket Economics: Helping Women in BusinessWhat challenges do women entrepreneurs face? What does it take to succeed as a woman in business? Listen to the latest episode of Pocket Economics with the EBRD’s Charlotte Ruhe.2017-03-1016 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyThe cost of the gay pay gapThe latest episode of the Pocket Economics podcast looks at what it means to be gay or lesbian in the modern workplace, asking how sexuality affects salary levels. Cevat Giray Aksoy, Principal Economist at the EBRD, Researcher at the London School of Economics and an expert on inequalities in the labour market helps us shed light on this issue.2017-02-2111 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyLife satisfaction and the pursuit of happinessWhat makes us happy and how should we measure life satisfaction?
EBRD Chief Economist Sergei Guriev explains the findings of our Life in Transition Survey, the largest of its kind ever carried out in the EBRD regions.2017-01-1015 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyPocket Economics: Gender EqualityWhat is gender equality and why does it matter?
The EBRD’s Chief Counsellor for Social Issues and the Director of its Gender team, Michaela Bergman, discusses the importance of gender equality in encouraging economic growth.2016-12-0612 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyPocket Economics: Inequality and how to fight itHow does inequality affect economic growth, the fate of reforms and people’s happiness?
EBRD Chief Economist Sergei Guriev discusses inequality and globalisation. Inequality is the central theme of the EBRD’s Transition Report 2016-17.2016-11-1612 min
bne IntelliNewsWoE Russia reforms with Sergei Guriev chief economist EBRDRussia's economy is flat on its back, but is expected to return to growth in 2017, albeit anaemic. bne IntelliNews editor-in-chief Ben Aris discusses the outlook for the recently launched reform programme with the EBRD's new chief economist Sergei Guriev, as well as the prospects for the rest of the region, including Ukraine. Ben Aris, editor-in-chief, bne IntelliNews Sergei Guriev, chief economist, EBRD2016-11-1000 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyPocket Economics: Climate finance: picking up the tab for climate changeHow much will it cost to combat climate change? And who should pay the bill? Who should contribute more: developed or developing countries?
Climate change is fast, expensive and the scale of the challenge is enormous.
Mattia Romani, EBRD Managing Director for Economics, Policy and Governance, former Chief Economist of the Global Green Growth Institute explains how we can finance the battle against climate change.2016-10-2415 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyPocket Economics: Political Economy and Reforms: the popularity paradoxDo reformers have to be popular to be successful? It’s a conundrum thinkers have agonised over for centuries. Our guest, the EBRD’s Chief Economist, Sergei Guriev, looks at how the concept of political economy has evolved and discusses the dynamic between rulers, ruled and reforms. He also analyses the importance of leaders’ popularity in both democratic and authoritarian regimes and previews our next Transition Report, which focuses on inequality.2016-10-0416 min
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyPocket Economics: MicrofinanceMicrocredit used to be regarded as a tool that, by funding the creation and expansion of microenterprises, could help lift households out of poverty. However, in recent years, the notion that microfinance is a “miracle cure” has been subject to intense debate. Ralph De Haas, EBRD’s Head of Research, author of numerous publications on microcredit including ‘Microcredit: neither miracle nor mirage’ helps us shed light on this complex issue.2016-09-2117 min