IMF Video: Caucasus and Central Asia Economic Outlook: Resilience, Risks, and Policy Priorities – April 2025

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Jihad Azour, IMF’s Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department, shares three key messages from the latest economic outlook for the Caucasus and Central Asia. Learn how the region exceeded expectations in 2024 and is expected to moderate in 2025, what’s ahead, and why building economic resilience is more important than ever. Read the full report: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/REO/MECA/Issues/2025/04/24/regional-economic-outlook-middle-east-central-asia-april-2025?cid=sm-com-ig-SM2025-REOMCDEA2025001

Published: 5th May 2025 11:49:45   By: IMF

IMF Video: The IMF’s Middle East and North Africa Regional Economic Outlook: Charting a Path through the Haze

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The Middle East and North Africa face growing uncertainty amid shifting global geopolitics, trade tensions, and weakening international cooperation. These global developments, combined with regional challenges such as conflicts and political instability, pose significant risks to economic stability. How can policymakers manage immediate threats while strengthening resilience against future shocks? Join us for an engaging discussion with a distinguished panel of experts as we explore these critical issues, highlighted in the IMF’s forthcoming Regional Economic Outlook: Middle East and Central Asia. This event is held in partnership with the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). Event details: Date: Thursday 1 May 2025 Time: 11:15am – 12:15pm Dubai Time Opening remarks: Alya AlZarouni - Chief Operating Officer, DIFC Authority Panellists: Jihad Azour - Director, Middle East and Central Asia Department, IMF Helima Croft - Head of Global Commodity Strategy & MENA Research, RBC Capital Markets Ahmed Galal Ismail - CEO, Majid Al Futtaim Holding Tarik Yousef - Director and Senior Fellow, Middle East Council on Global Affairs Moderator: Joumanna Bercetche - Anchor, Bloomberg Television

Published: 1st May 2025 08:28:14   By: IMF

IMF Video: Middle East and North Africa Regional Economic Outlook: Three Key Messages

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Jihad Azour, Director of the IMF's Middle East and Central Asia Department, shares three key messages from the latest economic outlook for the Middle East and North Africa region. Discover how rising global uncertainty, regional conflicts, and the need for stronger resilience are shaping the region’s economic prospects. Read the full report: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/REO/MECA/Issues/2025/04/24/regional-economic-outlook-middle-east-central-asia-april-2025?cid=sm-com-ig-SM2025-REOMCDEA2025001

Published: 1st May 2025 02:52:56   By: IMF

IMF Video: New Economy Forum: Towards an AI-Ready Workforce: A Strategic Public-Private Collaboration

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An engaging discussion on the opportunities and challenges presented by AI in the labor market, along with the policies needed to build an adaptive, AI-ready workforce. As AI continues to transform industries, governments and the private sector need to work together to address skill gaps, facilitate workforce transformation, and ensure equitable access to AI-driven opportunities. How is AI being used by workers? How can governments and businesses collaborate to reskill workers and prepare them for an AI-powered economy? What strategies can be implemented to mitigate job displacement while fostering innovation?

Published: 30th Apr 2025 03:03:26   By: IMF

IMF Video: New Economy Forum Workshop: AI and GovTech in Public Finance

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Fiscal institutions in ministries of finance worldwide have been advancing the digital transformation of public finance, recognizing the potential of digital technologies to enhance their operations. Among these technologies, AI has sparked particular interest, with governments exploring its applications across various areas. Governments must grapple with both the potential of AI and the complexities of scaling its implementation effectively and responsibly. At the same time, governments, especially in emerging and developing economies, face challenges that hinder progress in digitalizing fiscal operations, including outdated systems, limited interoperability, and difficulties to establish governance frameworks. This workshop comprises two panels to explore how governments are leveraging technologies and how the surge in AI interest has accelerated innovation and raised new expectations, including with AI use cases, setting up projects effectively, and approaching AI responsibly.

Published: 28th Apr 2025 05:30:06   By: IMF

World Economic Forum Video: Upskill workers to protect ‘employability, not jobs’: Adecco Exec

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Adecco president Christophe Catoir got started at the staffing giant as an intern. He’s had a front-row seat for the biggest trends shaping work ever since. He shares the insights from the firm’s annual skilling report, sharing sobering statistics on the share of workers globally who have been trained in AI so far and what’s needed to keep workers both engaged and employed in an upskilling cycle that will be continuous. He also shares his thoughts on how leaders in remote and hybrid workplaces will need to reevaluate how they coach and train teams, how apprenticeship thinking can help, and how his own career journey has changed him as a leader. This interview was recorded in January 2025 at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. About this podcast: Adecco: https://www.adecco-jobs.com/ Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/christophe-catoir-Adecco-upskilling-ai-jobs Related Podcasts: Meet The Leader - Adam Grant: Future leaders won't succeed without this key trait https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buVVIpttzUA Meet The Leader - How leaders can prepare teams for the future of work: ADP’s Chief Economist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShvNPomJ4mE&t=508s __________________________________________________________________ The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. We believe that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to make positive change. World Economic Forum Website ► http://www.weforum.org/ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/worldeconomicforum/ YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/wef Instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/worldeconomicforum/  Twitter ► https://twitter.com/wef LinkedIn ► https://www.linkedin.com/company/world-economic-forum TikTok ► https://www.tiktok.com/@worldeconomicforum Flipboard ► https://flipboard.com/@WEF #WorldEconomicForum

Published: 5th May 2025 02:38:42   By: World Economic Forum

World Economic Forum Video: The Arc of Progress in the 21st Century

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Looking at global headlines today, it’s hard not to feel pessimism. Have recent wars, pandemics and autocracies made the idea of progress obsolete? Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker uses data and psychology to provide a fresh perspective on progress: why it is so hard to achieve and what ideas were responsible for progress in the past and will be needed for progress to continue? This is the full audio from a session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2025. Watch it here: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2025/sessions/the-arch-of-progress-in-the-21st-century/ Catch up on all the action from the Annual Meeting 2025 at wef.ch/wef25 (http://wef.ch/wef25) and across social media using the hashtag #WEF25. Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts (http://wef.ch/podcasts) :  YouTube: (https://www.youtube.com/@wef/podcasts) - https://www.youtube.com/@wef/podcasts Radio Davos (https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos) - subscribe (https://pod.link/1504682164) : https://pod.link/1504682164 Meet the Leader (https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader) - subscribe (https://pod.link/1534915560) : https://pod.link/1534915560 Agenda Dialogues (https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues) - subscribe (https://pod.link/1574956552) : https://pod.link/1574956552 Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club (https://www.facebook.com/groups/wefpodcastclub) : https://www.facebook.com/groups/wefpodcastclub

Published: 5th May 2025 05:21:14   By: World Economic Forum

World Economic Forum Video: 3D-Printed Railway Station & 6 Manufacturing Myths | WEF | Top Stories Week

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This week's top stories of the week include: 0:15 Platform boots workplace inclusivity — Inclusively rounds up what potential employers can offer them from reasonable adjustments to assistive technologies. Employees can log in anonymously and state their disabilities and needs for support or resources. 3:40 Japan 3D-printed this railway station — Hatsushima’s old wooden station was built in 1948 and needed replacing but building a new one would have taken 2 months. Serendix printed the new station’s parts in a week before transporting them to Hatsushima for assembly. 5:13 How to identify and fight online harms — Making the digital world safe while protecting freedom of expression is an ongoing challenge. Nearly half of US teens say they're online almost constantly but how safe is their digital world? 8:41 6 myths about modern manufacturing — We sat down with 4 manufacturing leaders based in Switzerland, Morocco, Belgium and the US to discuss common mistakes people have about the industry. _____________________________________________ The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. We believe that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to make positive change. World Economic Forum Website ► http://www.weforum.org/ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/worldeconomicforum/ YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/wef Instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/worldeconomicforum/  Twitter ► https://twitter.com/wef LinkedIn ► https://www.linkedin.com/company/world-economic-forum TikTok ► https://www.tiktok.com/@worldeconomicforum Flipboard ► https://flipboard.com/@WEF #WorldEconomicForum

Published: 3rd May 2025 12:00:00   By: World Economic Forum

World Economic Forum Video: Debating Education

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From integrating next-generation technologies into curricula to addressing national perceptions of cultural issues, education is at a pivotal moment in ensuring that it adequately trains and teaches future generations. In this town hall, leaders debate what success can look like for education globally. This is the full audio from a session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting on 22 January, 2025. Watch it here: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2025/sessions/debating-education/ Speakers: Sian L. Beilock, President, Dartmouth Michael Spence, President and Provost, University College London (UCL) Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Raquel Bernal, President, Universidad de los Andes   Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts (http://wef.ch/podcasts) :  YouTube: (https://www.youtube.com/@wef/podcasts) - https://www.youtube.com/@wef/podcasts Radio Davos (https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos) - subscribe (https://pod.link/1504682164) : https://pod.link/1504682164 Meet the Leader (https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader) - subscribe (https://pod.link/1534915560) : https://pod.link/1534915560 Agenda Dialogues (https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues) - subscribe (https://pod.link/1574956552) : https://pod.link/1574956552 Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club (https://www.facebook.com/groups/wefpodcastclub) : https://www.facebook.com/groups/wefpodcastclub  

Published: 30th Apr 2025 12:09:39   By: World Economic Forum

World Economic Forum Video: ‘Wild-to-wild’ Jaguar Release & The Origin of Microfinance | WEF | Top Stories Week

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This week's top stories of the week include: 0:14 These horses help prevent wildfires —The region of Galicia has always been prone to wildfires. It’s also home to ‘las bestas’. Europe’s largest herd of wild horses. These animals are deeply embedded in the local culture. The bestas also play a crucial role in curbing Galicia’s wildfires. 2:31 How meditation can benefit workers — David Ko is the CEO of Calm, an app for meditation, sleep and stress management. It has been downloaded more than 175 million times worldwide. Meditation sounds like a big, weighty concept, Ko says but it doesn’t need to be. 6:21 Argentina's ‘wild-to-wild’ jaguar release — Mini is a 2-year-old jaguar born in the wild and the first ever to be ‘translocated’ or moved for conservation purposes. Mini was captured in late 2024 and she’s just been released in El Impenetrable National Park where rewilding experts hope to boost jaguar numbers and bridge the gap between scattered groups. 7:53 The origin of microfinance — In 1974 Muhammad Yunus was an economics lecturer at Chittagong University. Yunus set out to help those affected by poverty and famine. Today, the bank he founded provides micro-loans to 10.7 million people from more than 2,500 branches across Bangladesh. _______________________________________________________________________ The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. We believe that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to make positive change. World Economic Forum Website ► http://www.weforum.org/ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/worldeconomicforum/ YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/wef Instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/worldeconomicforum/  Twitter ► https://twitter.com/wef LinkedIn ► https://www.linkedin.com/company/world-economic-forum TikTok ► https://www.tiktok.com/@worldeconomicforum Flipboard ► https://flipboard.com/@WEF #WorldEconomicForum

Published: 26th Apr 2025 12:00:23   By: World Economic Forum

Reuters Video: Bessent says US to announce deals with large trade partners soon

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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told a House Appropriations subcommittee that the Trump administration could announce trade agreements with some of US's largest trade partners as early as this week, but gave no details on which countries were involved #usa #trumptariffs #trade #china #News #Reuters #Newsfeed Read the story here: https://reut.rs/4iSHBkd 👉 Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/reuterssubscribe Keep up with the latest news from around the world: https://www.reuters.com/ Follow Reuters on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Reuters Follow Reuters on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Reuters Follow Reuters on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reuters/?hl=en

Published: 6th May 2025 07:16:55   By: Reuters

Reuters Video: US trade deficit swells to record high amid rush to beat tariffs | REUTERS

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The US trade deficit widened to a record high as businesses accelerated imports ahead of President Trump’s tariffs, contributing to a first-quarter GDP decline — the first contraction in three years. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed #Markets #TradeDeficit Read the story here: https://reut.rs/4jIm66T 👉 Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/reuterssubscribe Keep up with the latest news from around the world: https://www.reuters.com/ Follow Reuters on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Reuters Follow Reuters on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Reuters Follow Reuters on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reuters/?hl=en

Published: 6th May 2025 07:02:43   By: Reuters

Reuters Video: Sectors Up Close: Tariffs put ‘giant hole' in US carmaker profits | REUTERS

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Ford becomes the latest US carmaker to pull its 2025 guidance, saying tariffs could cost the company $1.5 billion. Eric Lynch of Scharf Investments tells @Reuters that carmakers will likely be forced to pass higher prices on to customers. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed #carmaker #automaker #automobile #trumptariffs #ford #generalmotors Read the story here: https://reut.rs/432n9rb 👉 Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/reuterssubscribe Keep up with the latest news from around the world: https://www.reuters.com/ Follow Reuters on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Reuters Follow Reuters on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Reuters Follow Reuters on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reuters/?hl=en

Published: 6th May 2025 05:00:40   By: Reuters

Reuters Video: Tesla's UK, Germany new car sales at two-year low in April | REUTERS

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Tesla's new car sales in Britain and Germany plummeted to their lowest in over two years in April, falling 62% and 46% year-on-year respectively, even as demand for electric vehicles rose in both countries. #News #Tesla #business #EV #markets #Reuters #Newsfeed Read the story here: https://reut.rs/3F51NRQ 👉 Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/reuterssubscribe Keep up with the latest news from around the world: https://www.reuters.com/ Follow Reuters on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Reuters Follow Reuters on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Reuters Follow Reuters on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reuters/?hl=en

Published: 6th May 2025 03:05:17   By: Reuters

Reuters Video: Stocks turn lower on surprise German politics debacle | REUTERS

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Global stocks dropped on May 6 as German conservative leader Friedrich Merz unexpectedly failed to secure the parliamentary votes required to become chancellor #markets #stockmarket #business #businessnews #News #Reuters #Newsfeed Read the story here: https://reut.rs/4k3k6Wv 👉 Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/reuterssubscribe Keep up with the latest news from around the world: https://www.reuters.com/ Follow Reuters on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Reuters Follow Reuters on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Reuters Follow Reuters on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reuters/?hl=en

Published: 6th May 2025 02:38:27   By: Reuters

Business Video: Canada ‘won’t be for sale, ever,’ Carney tells Trump

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President Donald Trump said he still believes Canada should become the 51st state in the US as he spoke to reporters at the White House while meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Carney pushed back and told Trump, “As you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale,” Carney said. “It’s not for sale. it won’t be for sale, ever.” #CNN #News

Published: 6th May 2025 05:23:32   By: CNN

Business Video: Trump voter and business owner has a message for the president on tariffs

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CNN's Jake Tapper speaks with Steven Borelli, CEO and founder of Cuts Clothing and a supporter of President Donald Trump, about how he feels about Trump's trade war and its impact on small businesses. #CNN #News

Published: 6th May 2025 11:51:38   By: CNN

Business Video: Democratic congressman: Trump forgot his oath to protect the Constitution 'the minute he took it'

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In an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press with Kristen Welker” President Donald Trump said , “I don’t know” when asked whether he needs to uphold the Constitution, three months after swearing an oath to do so. 00:00 Rep. Seth Moulton discusses with CNN's Anderson Cooper. 07:22 Constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe weighs in. 11:53 Kasie Hunt and the panel discuss. 23:08 Abby Phillip and the team dig in. #CNN #News

Published: 6th May 2025 03:45:00   By: CNN

Business Video: Widespread delays at Newark airport as air traffic controllers go on trauma leave

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Air traffic controllers who lost communication with aircraft at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, leading to hundreds of delays for more than a week, are taking special government leave for traumatic situations to recover from the stress. #CNN #News

Published: 6th May 2025 02:07:03   By: CNN

Business Video: Ford doesn’t expect significant car price hikes even as tariffs will cost it $1.5 billion

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President Donald Trump’s auto tariffs will cost Ford $1.5 billion this year, but the automaker said Monday it does not expect overall US car prices to rise significantly as a result. Ford also withdrew its previous full-year earnings guidance due to the uncertainty caused by Trump’s tariffs. #CNN #News

Published: 6th May 2025 12:16:27   By: CNN