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 Rachel Bonnifield: Global Action to Counter Lead Poisoning
Global Get Down - A Global Affairs Podcast by IRSA
50 minutes 45 seconds
1 year ago
Get Down with Rachel Bonnifield: Global Action to Counter Lead Poisoning
Rachel Silverman Bonnifield, currently Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington DC joins us to talk about her extensive research on addressing neglected global health crises: specifically, her work on Widespread Lead Poisoning of Children.
Rachel and Host Gaurav cover, among other things, the scope of the problem, a brief history of action to address Lead Poisoning, specific case studies of action around the world, what the role of institutions like hers can be to help make this issue more visible, and the scale of global financing required to address this issue by 2030.
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.
