IMF Podcasts
Hosted by Rhoda Metcalfe · IMF Podcasts
4.5from 86 ratings
- 701
- Episodes
- 14
- Transcribed
- 86
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2013
- First episode
- 60K
- YouTube views
About IMF Podcasts
Listen to the World's top economists discuss their research and deconstruct global economic trends.
- Publisher
- IMF Podcasts
- Category
- business · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 8 Jan 2013
- Latest episode
- 16 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
14 of 701 episodes have a transcript.
16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Mehran Gul on the Innovation Blindspot
10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Dani Rodrik on Rethinking Development
1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ha-Joon Chang on Infant Industry Protection
Inside a recent episode
Mehran Gul on the Innovation Blindspot
Published 16 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So, for instance, Europe has all the Nobel laureates. It has all the research institutions. It has all the old companies. So, you know, all the pre-existing capital. And yet you're not seeing competitive foundation models, electric vehicles, Solar panels come from European countries, you're seeing them come from China. And I think China has really inverted the model that you saw in places like the US. In the US, if you look at a place like the Valley, the conventional story sort of goes, first you had the university, Stanford, then you had the defense funding, then you had venture capital, then you had these large companies, and then you had the breakthrough technologies. […]
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- Mehran Gul
- Dani Rodrik
- Ha-Joon Chang
- Krishna Srinivasan
- Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 60,450
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 56 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 30 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 94 / 100
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- Quality
- 97
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 85
- Engagement
- 95
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Rhoda Metcalfe host the show. Published by IMF Podcasts.
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