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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney, alongside

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Speaker 1: my co host Matt Miller. Every business day we bring

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Speaker 1: and World Bank they're holding their spring meetings virtually. Uh,

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Speaker 1: let's get a sense of what might be on the agenda.

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Speaker 1: We welcome to Bias Adrian. He's a financial counselor and

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Speaker 1: director of the International Monetary and Capital Markets Department for

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Speaker 1: the i m F. Tobias, give us a sense what

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Speaker 1: is on the agenda at the IMF this week. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, as we start to emerge from this pandemic. Yes,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for this important question. So what we

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Speaker 1: are seeing is that there's a recovery that is taking

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Speaker 1: place globally, but it isn't a synchronous recovery. UM. So

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Speaker 1: we have all followed the fiscal package in the US,

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Speaker 1: and of course that has shifted expectations about the about

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Speaker 1: the recovery in the US forward. But the recovery is

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Speaker 1: not as fast and as strong elsewhere in the world.

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Speaker 1: So uh, this is why a synchronous is the word

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Speaker 1: of the day. And when we look out two years

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Speaker 1: into the future, what we see is that the most

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Speaker 1: advanced economies in the world have the lowest output gaps,

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Speaker 1: while emerging markets and low income countries have larger output

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Speaker 1: gaps relative to the pre pandemic expectations of where these

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Speaker 1: economies would be. So basically, uh, the more advanced you are,

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Speaker 1: the more uh the expectation is that the recovery will

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Speaker 1: take place, will get to healing. So what can be

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Speaker 1: done out of what can the I m F and

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Speaker 1: World Bank recommend or or even do in terms of action? Yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: So of course we are doing three things. So number one,

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Speaker 1: we are lending two countries that our need. So last

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Speaker 1: in terms of help with the rapid financing. Secondly, we

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Speaker 1: then lastly we give policy advice. So this is what

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Speaker 1: it's called our surveillance, and we give very granular policy

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Speaker 1: advice to our entire membership of one ninety countries. Tobias.

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Speaker 1: What impact, if any at all, Kennedy, I, m F

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Speaker 1: the States. Uh, you know, we're just you know, shocked

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Speaker 1: very closely. Matt. Back in the day, I worked at

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Speaker 1: But at year end, there was always something that would

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Speaker 1: a bad private investment there. Uh. It seemed like there's

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Speaker 1: it down with a couple of experts. Nalie Basket, Wall

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Speaker 1: Um Ernali, want to start with you. What's the latest here?

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Speaker 1: We've got some management changes, We've got a big hit

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Speaker 1: So the management changes are part part of it. Um.

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Speaker 1: But I do think, especially given all the numerous issues there,

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Speaker 1: And you know, Credit Suite was actually doing our right

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Speaker 1: question moving forward. What type of reputational hit is credit

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Speaker 1: First off, Marvin, the U S economy has really caught

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Speaker 1: generational um you know force uh radio Head. I listened

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Speaker 1: create again new kinds of connections and new kinds of

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Speaker 1: of of art forms. So for me, I'm very hopeful

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Speaker 1: part of the Latino UM. So I actually am very

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Speaker 1: hopeful of of the industry, not just in terms of growth,

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Speaker 1: of new amazing artists that would be interesting to see

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Speaker 1: and it's fascinating to see how this industry is evolving.

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Speaker 1: Senior Vice president IT for Global Strategy and Innovation at

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Speaker 1: the Berkeley College of Music, and thank you so much

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