Brettonomics with Nancy Jacklin

In the third part of this episode, Nancy Jacklin and Joaquim Levy explore the World Bank’s role as a knowledge bank and the importance of that role in economic development. They also examine the World Bank’s relations with its sister institution, the IMF, and the bank’s increasing role in helping its members deal with the economic development challenges and opportunities pertaining to climate change.

Episode 3 continues the exploration of the other institutions of the World Bank Group: the International Development Association, the International Finance Corporation, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Authority, and the International Center for the Resolution of Investment Disputes. Nancy Jacklin and Joaquim Levy also take a look at the use of specialized trust funds administered by the World Bank.

Nancy Jacklin delves into the evolution of economic development theories and the shifting political and economic priorities influencing development financing. She is joined by Masood Ahmed, President of the Center for Global Development, who brings over 35 years of policy expertise from senior roles at the IMF, the World Bank, and the UK Department for International Development.

In this episode, Nancy Jacklin sits down with Agustín Carstens, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements, to discuss the BIS and its role in the overall financial system. 

In this episode, Nancy Jacklin sits down with Siddharth Tiwari, former Executive Secretary of the G20 Eminent Persons Group and Head of Operations in the African Department for the IMF. They discuss the IMF's evolving relationship to low income countries and what the IMF is doing in terms of capacity-building and policy support for LICs.

In this episode, Nancy Jacklin sits down with Stefan Ingves, former head of the Central Bank of Sweden and Chairman of the Basel Committee, to talk about the framework for regulation and oversight of global financial markets and the financial institutions that participate in them.

In this episode, Nancy Jacklin sits down with John Lipsky, Vice-Chair of the Bretton Woods Committee and the First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF from 2006-2011. They discuss how the adverse effects of the 2008 financial crisis were tackled with international cooperation and what reforms were made to the institutional framework for the global financial system.

In this episode, Nancy Jacklin sits down with Caroline Atkinson, a former senior official at both the US Treasury Department and the IMF, to discuss the financial crises of the 1990's and how they caused a shift in IMF focus to predict future vulnerabilities and avoid further crises.

In this episode, Nancy Jacklin sits down with Charles Dallara, former US Executive Director of the IMF and Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury, to discuss the IMF's role on financing with particular attention to the IMF's role in sovereign debt crisis resolution.

In this episode, Nancy Jacklin sits down with Ted Truman, former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury for International Affairs and Director of International Finance at the Federal Reserve, to discuss the core objectives of the IMF and how it was designed in order to achieve those objectives.

In the first episode of the Brettonomics podcast, Nancy Jacklin interviews Liaquat Ahamed, author of Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, to discuss the historical context that led to the creation of the Bretton Woods Institutions.

Check out the trailer for the new BWC Podcast, Brettonomics with Nancy Jacklin.