IMF / LAGARDE HARVARD

The global economy is on an upswing, but now is not the time for complacency said IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde at Harvard on Thursday. IMF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:31
• Production Date: 6 October 2017
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: CHRISTINE LAGARDE
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND - IMF
• Subject Topical: ECONOMICS
• MAMS Id: 1992464
• Parent Id: 1992464
• Alternate Title: unifeed171006c

Description

STORY: IMF / LAGARDE HARVARD
TRT: 2:31
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
SOURCE: IMF
RESTRICTION: NONE

DATELINE: 05 OCTOBER 2017, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

Shotlist

05 OCTOBER 2017, HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

1. Exteriors, Campus
2. Wide shot, Harvard
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF):
"The long-awaited global recovery is taking hold. It's taking roots. In July the IMF projected a 3.5 % global growth for 2017 and 3.6% global growth in 2018. And next week as indicated by Professor Summers we will be holding our Annual Meetings and it may well be that this coming forecast will be a little bit better than that!"
4. Med shot, Lagarde at podium
5. Wide shot, audience
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF):
"Can the world seize the opportunity of this upswing of our economy to secure the recovery and create a more inclusive growth that actually works for all.
7. Wide shot, audience
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF):
"Our research coming out next week shows the impact on climate change will result in cooperation because those suffering from it most have not much to do with it and those suffering less have caused most of it."
8. Med shot, Lagarde at the podium
9. Wide shot, audience
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF):
"So what is the bottom-line? Policy. Policy makers should use all the tools at their disposal to act now and take advantage of this period of global growth. As I said, let us not let a good recovery go to waste. And in our view cooperation remains the best way to create a more prosperous future for everyone in every nation. It's not going to suffice, we're still going to require domestic action and policies at national levels but I believe the IMF can serve as a platform for dialog and a resource for countries seeking to build more resilient economies."
11. Wide shot, audience
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF):
"Making sure that women can contribute to the economy, empowering them, giving them access to finance is just a no-brainer from an economic point of view."
13. Close up, Harvard business school logo

Storyline

The global economy is on an upswing, but now is not the time for complacency said the Managing Director of International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde at Harvard on Thursday (5 Oct).

"We must not let a good recovery go to waste," she said to students at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Lagarde also drew on John F. Kennedy's 1962 speech to US Congress where he said "pleasant as it may be to bask in the warmth of recovery... the time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."

IMF research shows that the pain of making structural and labor reforms in periods of growth are far less costly than making changes during economic downturns.

The IMF will release its World Economic Outlook report on global growth rates Tuesday October 10 in Washington DC ahead of the Annual Meetings.

"The long-awaited global recovery is taking hold. It's taking roots. In July the IMF projected a 3.5 % global growth for 2017 and 3.6% global growth in 2018. And next week as indicated by Professor Summers we will be holding our Annual Meetings and it may well be that this coming forecast will be a little bit better than that!"

Climate change remains a key risk to future growth said Lagarde, and is a challenge which demands cooperation.

"Our research coming out next week shows the impact on climate change will result in cooperation because those suffering from it most have not much to do with it and those suffering less have caused most of it."

And governments must do a better job at unleashing women in the workforce, said Lagarde, pointing to research showing that empowering women and giving them access to loans and money will significantly boost national economies.

"Making sure that women can contribute to the economy, empowering them, giving them access to finance is just a no-brainer from an economic point of view."