Global Get Down - A Global Affairs Podcast by IRSA
Global Get Down - A Global Affairs Podcast by IRSA
45 episodes
1 month ago
Join us for a conversation with Karen Mathiasen and Nico Martinez, a project director and research assistant both working at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C. on stablecoins and their use cases for international financial institutions. For the next half hour, our guests break down the definition of a stablecoin, the dangers of their adoption, the extent of existing regulation around them, and how they might be useful in the realm of development finance despite those risks.
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Join us for a conversation with Karen Mathiasen and Nico Martinez, a project director and research assistant both working at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C. on stablecoins and their use cases for international financial institutions. For the next half hour, our guests break down the definition of a stablecoin, the dangers of their adoption, the extent of existing regulation around them, and how they might be useful in the realm of development finance despite those risks.
Get Down with Adva Saldinger: A Primer on the Spring Meetings and World Bank Reform
Global Get Down - A Global Affairs Podcast by IRSA
28 minutes 34 seconds
1 year ago
Get Down with Adva Saldinger: A Primer on the Spring Meetings and World Bank Reform
Adva Saldinger, Senior Reporter at Devex, who covered the recently-concluded Spring Meetings of the World Bank and IMF on the ground from Washington DC, joins us for a primer on the Meetings and discusses World Bank Reform with our Host Gaurav.
They cover the main outcomes and announcements from the Spring Meetings and talk about who attended, touching on both the high profile personnel and the various civil society actors who made their presence felt.
Tune in to get a sense of the issues currently being discussed at the meeting of the two biggest multilateral development institutions, and get a sense of some of the aspects of the World Bank’s new reform agenda under President Ajay Banga.
Global Get Down - A Global Affairs Podcast by IRSA
Join us for a conversation with Karen Mathiasen and Nico Martinez, a project director and research assistant both working at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C. on stablecoins and their use cases for international financial institutions. For the next half hour, our guests break down the definition of a stablecoin, the dangers of their adoption, the extent of existing regulation around them, and how they might be useful in the realm of development finance despite those risks.