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In the new episode of our ‘Pocket Economics’ podcast, we discuss the challenges faced by refugees and the communities that host them. How can the private sector and international organisations help? Listen to Daphne Jayasinghe in conversation with Vanora Bennett.

In 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.

In 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?

Is environmental protection compatible with continued global economic growth? Are economies put on a path to green growth? And which countries are leading the green race?

Listen to Sam Fankhauser, Professor at the LSE and Co-Director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment in conversation with Vanora Bennett.

What 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.

A new episode of the ‘Pocket Economics’ podcast examines whether women are discriminated against when applying for loans.

Do banks treat women and men differently? Listen to Ralph de Haas in conversation with Jonathan Charles.

Special edition of the Pocket Economics podcast! Serbia’s Prime Minister, Ana Brnabic, shares with Jonathan Charles her thoughts on regional integration and the Western Balkans.

In the new episode of our 'Pocket Economics' podcast we discuss 'populism', one of the defining political terms of our 21st century.

Is populism a threat, something we should be afraid of? Or a corrective for democracy when it stops working as it should? Listen to Sergei Guriev in conversation with Jonathan Charles.

On 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.