In recent years, the field of international cooperation has seen the growing presence of a new professional figure: the gender expert. Gender experts support and advise policymakers and practitioners to make sure their work has a gender perspective and supports gender equality. But why is gender expertise important? Who gets to decide who these experts are? And can gender expertise stray away from feminism or become exclusionary when it doesn’t recognise multiple forms of oppression?

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To start the second season of ECDPM’s podcast series 'Minding the gap: conversations on gender', Pauline Veron and Angela Lowe, senior advisor at Women Political Leaders, discuss the interactions between gender and european politics, the threats to women's democratic autonomy and the opportunities to turn things around for gender equality.

S2 Episode 1 - What can we expect from and for women in the upcoming European elections?

It’s no mystery where the IMF was born but its origin story might surprise you. While the spotlight was on the charismatic British economist John Maynard Keynes during the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, a little-known American economist was working in the shadows. Harry Dexter White’s plan would lead to the creation of the IMF and forever change the world economy. In this podcast, IMF historian and author, James Boughton speaks with Rhoda Metcalfe about how Harry White made history without making a splash. 

Transcript: https://bit.ly/456YgLB 

Read the article in Finance and Development: IMF.org/fandd James 

Boughton is also the author of Harry Dexter White and the American Creed

James Boughton on The Messy Legacy of Harry Dexter White

Migration is one of the key political issues in Europe today, but little attention is given to the impact that gender has on migration patterns. New research is revealing that gender has an influence on an individual’s decision to move, the way they choose to do it and how their movement is perceived by the old and new communities.

For the second episode of ECDPM’s podcast series 'Minding the gap: conversations on gender', Jamie Slater is joined by Omolola Smaria Olarinde, a professor at the forefront of research on gender and migration, to discuss the latest findings and what this might mean for the way we understand migration and migration policy.

S2 Episode 2 - How does gender affect migration?

Taxation For Competitiveness  Enhancing Eu's Own Resources

Central banks worldwide share common practices in how they operate, but the UK’s central bank is unique in how it makes its rate decisions. Catherine Mann is a Professor of the Practice at Brandeis University and one of four external voting members of the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England. In this podcast, Mann says the pickup in capital flows in neighboring countries earlier this year required careful consideration by the BOE, and the broader range of backgrounds on its board helped to make the right monetary policy decisions.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3RaurnK

Catherine Mann: A Central Banker’s View on Capital Flows

We live under an invisible ideology. It tells us that we are not citizens but consumers. That intervening in the free market compromises our freedom. That we are all millionaires-in-waiting - and if we are struggling to make ends meet, then we only have ourselves to blame. 

This is capitalism on steroids. But few of us can even identify the doctrine we live under. It’s called “neoliberalism”, and it’s been the dominant economic ideology for the past four decades. 

So what does this ideology have to tell us about the world? How is neoliberalism shaping our democracy? And what has almost half a century of neoliberalism done to our lives?

Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by George Monbiot, journalist and co-author of the new book The Invisible Doctrine: the secret history of neoliberalism, to discuss: how do we tell a new story about neoliberalism?


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Neoliberalism: The Invisible Ideology, with George Monbiot

Economic growth is often seen as the core ingredient to social development, but it’s a relatively new idea. So what did pre-growth society look like and how much growth can modern society sustain? In his latest book, Daniel Susskind argues that economic policy should consider the costs of growth more carefully and realign the drivers to better fit with the challenges of our time. Susskind is a research professor at King's College London and a senior research associate at the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University. In this podcast, he says growth doesn’t come from the tangible world of things but from the intangible world of ideas.

Transcript: https://bit.ly/3yY83aK

Daniel Susskind on Growth: A History and A Reckoning

What can we learn from the 2023 banking turmoil?

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