CGD Podcast: What We’re Watching at the IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings

As policymakers head to Bangkok for the IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings, they're grappling with a lot: rising fuel and food prices, increased borrowing costs, shrinking budgets, geopolitical tensions, conflict, and other crises. Many low- and middle-income countries are looking to international financial institutions for support. What should be on the agenda next week?

This episode of the CGD Podcast presents highlights from our recent event on this topic, cohosted with Devex. I was joined at the event by my CGD colleagues Rachel Glennerster, Markus Goldstein, and Mikaela Gavas, as well as Devex senior reporter Adva Saldinger.

Together we examine how the World Bank and the IMF can best support the poorest countries at a time of repeated crises. We also discuss shifting donor priorities, the role of private capital, artificial intelligence, climate, debt, and more.