Summing up what happens at the annual meetings that took place in Washington DC this week, one chief economist described them as being “like a geekier Davos”.

It was certainly geekier, with hundreds of economists among those in the city for the IMF and World Bank Group annual meetings, and a series of “Analytical Corner” seminars on the programme, which brought the experts together to discuss the latest research on the big macroeconomic issues worrying the world’s policymakers...

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