Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economy

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11.22.2023
EBRD Transition Report 2023-24 live launch
Listen 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...
05.26.2023
War And Post - War Economics Lessons For Ukraine
Policymakers 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...
05.24.2023
Regional Economic Prospects 2023
The 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...
12.12.2022
Ukraine Event Special: Investment in the real economy and the role of the EBRD
Nearly 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...
12.07.2022
Ukraine Event Special: Sustainable macroeconomic policies for the war and beyond
Nearly 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...
11.24.2022
Launch Of the EBRD Transition Report 2022 - 23 Business Unusual
Launch Of the EBRD Transition Report 2022 - 23 Business Unusual by EBRD
09.28.2022
A Cold Winter Ahead? Latest economic forecasts from the EBRD
This 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...
06.21.2022
Fearonomics: the cost of discrimination
Rate, 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...
06.13.2022
Fearonomics: why we fear migration
Rate, 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...
05.20.2022
Fearonomics: the future of pandemics
Rate, 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...
05.05.2022
Fearonomics: why should we fear inflation
Rate, 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,...
04.20.2022
Fearonomics: 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...
04.07.2022
Fearonomics: will the global energy crisis end the shift to green?
Fearonomics: will global energy crisis end the shift to green? Rate, review and subscribe to our podcast 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...
04.01.2022
Fearonomics: 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...
11.17.2021
Transition Report 2021-22 launch
System 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...
10.08.2021
COP26: what’s at stake for the EBRD regions
Listen, 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...
05.25.2021
Robots v Covid-19: the future of work?
Robots v Covid-19: the future of work? Rate, review and download our podcast “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...
05.17.2021
Can 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...
04.16.2021
The 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...
03.05.2021
How to measure impact of multilateral lending
Rate, 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...
01.22.2021
Combatting inequality during and after Covid-19
Rate, 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...
11.11.2020
The 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...
10.29.2020
The growing mountain of debt: how Covid-19 is creating a big pile of debt and what to do with it
Rate, 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....
09.18.2020
Trade finance during the coronavirus pandemic
Rate, 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...
07.10.2020
Fiscal policy and the post Covid-19 social contract
Rate, 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...
06.15.2020
Is 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,...
06.08.2020
Will 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...
05.19.2020
The future of capitalism post-coronavirus
Rate, 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...
05.14.2020
Coronavirus and the future of trust and populism
The 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...
05.06.2020
The Coronavirus pandemic and the future: a conversation with Ivan Krastev
Rate 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...
05.04.2020
What 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...
04.27.2020
What 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...
04.17.2020
How 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...
04.15.2020
Can 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...
12.11.2019
To reform or not to reform: the populism dilemma
Rate, 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...
12.03.2019
What is the future for our cities?
Rate, review and subscribe to our podcast Pocket Dilemmas Does the uncontrolled growth of large cities endanger smart and sustainable living? From adaptive traffic lights to wooden skyscrapers, what is the future for our cities? Will they look more like an...
11.07.2019
What 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...
06.19.2019
How to make Chernobyl safe for the future
Rate, 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?...
05.29.2019
What 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...
05.21.2019
Mind 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...
05.14.2019
Megatrends: 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...
04.30.2019
Taking the cryptic out of cryptocurrencies
Rate, 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...
04.23.2019
Age against the machine and the future of work
Rate, 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...
04.15.2019
Should 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...
04.04.2019
The Brexit dilemma and its impact on the EBRD regions
Episode 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...
04.02.2019
Pocket Dilemmas: big answers to big questions
We'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...
06.28.2018
Privatisation and state capitalism
Privatisation and state capitalism by EBRD
06.07.2018
Refugees and their hosts
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.
05.17.2018
Thinking about the world in 2018
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.
04.25.2018
The future of development finance- part 2
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...

What's Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economy about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economy episodes:

EBRD Transition Report 2023-24 live launch

War And Post - War Economics Lessons For Ukraine

Regional Economic Prospects 2023

Ukraine Event Special: Investment in the real economy and the role of the EBRD

Ukraine Event Special: Sustainable macroeconomic policies for the war and beyond

Launch Of the EBRD Transition Report 2022 - 23 Business Unusual

A Cold Winter Ahead? Latest economic forecasts from the EBRD

Fearonomics: the cost of discrimination

Fearonomics: why we fear migration

Fearonomics: the future of pandemics

Fearonomics: why should we fear inflation

Fearonomics: death of globalisation?

Fearonomics: will the global energy crisis end the shift to green?

Fearonomics: can we fix the looming food crisis?

Transition Report 2021-22 launch

COP26: what’s at stake for the EBRD regions

Robots v Covid-19: the future of work?

Can finance reduce pollution during the Covid-19 crisis?

The EBRD at 30: what’s next?

How to measure impact of multilateral lending

Combatting inequality during and after Covid-19

The State Strikes Back: what is the role of the state post Covid-19?

The growing mountain of debt: how Covid-19 is creating a big pile of debt and what to do with it

Trade finance during the coronavirus pandemic

Fiscal policy and the post Covid-19 social contract

Is technology in the era of Covid-19 a threat to democracy?

Will capitalism survive the coronavirus pandemic?

The future of capitalism post-coronavirus

Coronavirus and the future of trust and populism

The Coronavirus pandemic and the future: a conversation with Ivan Krastev

What does the coronavirus pandemic mean for gender inequality?

What does the coronavirus pandemic mean for impact investing?

How will the coronavirus pandemic affect the global economy?

Can open borders survive the coronavirus pandemic?

To reform or not to reform: the populism dilemma

What is the future for our cities?

What happened to the hopes and dreams of 1989?

How to make Chernobyl safe for the future

What is the future of poverty?

Mind the LGBTQI pay gap!

Megatrends: Is the future already here?

Taking the cryptic out of cryptocurrencies

Age against the machine and the future of work

Should algorithms rule the world?

The Brexit dilemma and its impact on the EBRD regions

Pocket Dilemmas: big answers to big questions

Privatisation and state capitalism

Refugees and their hosts

Thinking about the world in 2018

The future of development finance- part 2