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Patterns and Stories PodcastShanta Devarajan on the Sri-Lankan CrisisWelcome to another episode of Patterns and Stories. Joining us today is Shanta Devarajan, Professor of the Practice of International Development at Georgetown University. Prior to that, he was Senior Director for Development Economics and a former Acting Chief Economist of the World Bank Group.We are your hosts, Luca Dellanna and Ismail Manik.The AI-generated transcript was lightly edited for grammar and fluency.Highlights* “One distinction between the Sri Lankan crisis and all the others that I have worked on […] is that the Sri Lankan crisis was an enti...
2025-06-0742 min
Business DailySri Lanka's debt crisisWhy is Sri Lanka facing its biggest economic crisis for decades? It's left the population enduring months of power cuts, while essentials are in short supply.
How has the country's debt spiralled out of control and what will a debt default mean for ordinary people?
We hear from protestors on the street who are demanding a change of government, and how an IT entrepreneur is grappling with power cuts. Plus, Shanta Devarajan, a former chief economist at the World Bank who will be negotiating with the International Monetary Fund on behalf of Sri Lanka, tells us what the talks...
2022-04-1317 min
F-World: The Fragility Podcast#3 - Shanta Devarajan: Can Knowledge, Data, and Trust Help Break the Fragility Trap?Dr. Shanta Devarajan is a professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he teaches development economics. Previously, Shanta worked for nearly three decades at the World Bank, where he was the Senior Director for Development Economics (DEC) and served as acting Chief Economist. This episode starts with Shanta’s account of his early work on indicators to measure state fragility at the World Bank, and how his understanding of fragility has evolved over time. We then explore how country rankings are linked to aid allocations, and why venture capital is a better model to help...
2021-10-291h 15
The FuturistWorld Bank Chief Economist Wolfgang Fengler In Conversation With Ian KhanWorld Bank Chief Economist in Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation, Wolfgang Fengler, joined Ian Khan on the Ian Khan show. Discussing the current state of the world and the future. Wolfgang Fengler is the World Bank’s Lead Economist in Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation. A native German, Wolfgang has been a staff member of the World Bank for more than 18 years, during which he lived in four continents: First in North America working at the World Bank’s headquarters in Washington DC, then in Asia as a Senior Economist in the Indonesia office, followed by Africa, where he served as the World Bank...
2021-06-1425 min
AfronomicsTen Years of Africa’s ProgressTen years ago, the world was fighting its way out of a global financial crisis, but prospects were strong for Sub-Saharan Africa to quickly recover. The World Bank started publishing Africa’s Pulse at that time, as a vehicle to help us track these trends and put the economic and development outlook squarely on the agenda for our discussions with African leaders and our partners.Over the last decade, we have been riding the wave of the “Africa Rising” narrative through the economic ups and downs in the region, including a regional crisis that stopped progress in its tr...
2020-02-0636 min
IFPRI PodcastIFPRI SPECIAL EVENT: 2018 Global Food Policy Report - 3-20-2018 - SDevarajanPanelist: Shanta Devarajan, Acting Chief Economist and Senior Director for Development Economics (DEC), World Bank Group
Antiglobalism was on the rise in 2017. What will that mean for food security and nutrition? IFPRI’s 2018 Global Food Policy Report examines the impacts of global integration—including the movement of goods, investment, people, and knowledge—and the threat of current antiglobalization pressures.
This seventh annual report also provides perspective on the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2017 and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2018.
2018-03-2309 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
Economic Rockstar046: Shanta Devarajan on The World Bank, Quiet Corruption, Government Failure and Comparative AdvantageShanta Devarajan is the Chief Economist of the World Bank’s Middle East and North Africa Region. Since joining the World Bank in 1991, he has been a Principal Economist and Research Manager for Public Economics in the Development Research Group, and the Chief Economist of the Human Development Network, South Asia, and Africa Region.
Shanta was the director of the World Development Report 2004, ‘Making Services Work for Poor People’. Before 1991, he was on the faculty of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Shanta is the author and co-author of over 100 publications, with his research cov...
2015-08-2000 min
IFPRI PodcastsIFPRI Policy Seminar - Jun 14, 2012 - Shanta DevarajanPresentation by Shanta Devarajan, Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank, at the IFPRI Policy Seminar, "Transformation of Economies in Africa" held June 14, 2012 in Washington, DC.
2012-06-1518 min
IFPRI PodcastsIFPRI Policy Seminar - Jun 14, 2012 - Shanta DevarajanPresentation by Shanta Devarajan, Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank, at the IFPRI Policy Seminar, "Transformation of Economies in Africa" held June 14, 2012 in Washington, DC.
2012-06-1518 min
Fifty-Fifty (Français)Fiftyfiftyfr072011Dans ce numéro de Fifty-fifty du 20 juillet 2011 nous parlons de l’autonomie financière des femmes dans le cadre de la lutte contre la pauvreté. Des femmes qui ont bénéficié du financement des institutions de microfinance arrivent à se prendre en charge et participer ainsi à l’éducation de leurs enfants. Il ya aussi des tristes déclarations de femmes entrepreneurs sur les obstacles qu’elles rencontrent.
Les intervenants sont Marie Laetitia Kayisiré Chargée de l’Autonomisation économique des femmes au Bureau régional de ONUFEMMES pour l’Afrique de l’Ouest, Antoinette Ouedrago, Présidente du Conseil d’administration de l’ONG f...
2011-07-2029 min