Future Development

People arrive to attend the Pledging Conference of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for the First Replenishment in Paris, France, October 25, 2019. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

Mobilizing funds to combat climate change: Lessons from the first replenishment of the Green Climate Fund

Johannes F. Linn · Tuesday, February 18, 2020

How to regulate big tech

Anwar Aridi and Urška Petrovčič

Thursday, February 13, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Workers wearing protective suits drive an ambulance near the cruise ship Diamond Princess, as they prepare to transfer passengers tested positive for the novel coronavirus, at Daikoku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Japan February 10, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo

Preparing for pandemics such as coronavirus—will we ever break the vicious cycle of panic and neglect?

Gavin Yamey, Marco Schäferhoff, Kaci Kennedy McDade, and Wenhui Mao

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

A person holds gold recovered at the end of the informal gold mining process, after the mercury has been burned off, in Bawdie, Ghana, April 4, 2019. Picture taken April 4, 2019. To match Special Report GOLD-AFRICA/POISON REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko

Procyclicality trap in resource-rich countries and how to escape from it

Francisco G. Carneiro and Wilfried A. Kouame

Friday, February 7, 2020

A worker stands next to robotic arms welding pump truck part at a factory of the Foton Loxa Heavy Machinery Co in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, China May 24, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT.

Have robots grounded the flying geese? Automation and offshoring in the manufacturing sector

Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Gaurav Nayyar

Thursday, February 6, 2020

Employees check solar panels, as they work on a grid-connected photovoltaic power generation project, at a power plant in Changxing County, Zhejiang Province, China June 13, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT.

The decoupling the world is waiting for: China’s green growth breakthrough

Sebastian Eckardt, Martin Raiser, and Dafei Huang

Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Workers transport goods on a truck near a cargo ship at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China September 13, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT.

Who gains from trade?

Erhan Artuc, Bob Rijkers, and Guido Porto

Friday, January 31, 2020

Demonstrators take part in a protest to demand justice for the murder of Isabel Cabanillas, an activist for women's rights whose body was found on January 18, 2020, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico January 25, 2020. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

Why are people protesting?

Elena Ianchovichina, Martijn Burger, and Caroline Witte

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

FILE PHOTO: A Syrian refugee woman stands outside a tent at a camp in Bar Elias, in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon January 13, 2020. Picture taken January 13, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo

Sharing the burden of the global refugee crisis

Monday, January 27, 2020

Moldovan cargo ship, "Prosperity", is docked at the port of Algeciras, Spain May 31, 2018. REUTERS/Jon Nazca

How has global trade policy shifted over the past 3 years?

Simon J. Evenett and Johannes Fritz

Thursday, January 23, 2020

A local surfs the Web in the street in the northern Salamanca town in this December 15, 2006 file photo. Salamanca, 200 miles (316 km) north of the capital Santiago, became Chile's first WiFi town in September. Chilean President Michelle Bachelet hailed the project as the first of its kind in South America and as a major step toward "cutting the gap between rich and poor, between the capital and the regions, between the large and small cities". To match feature CHILE-WIRELESS/ REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado/Files (CHILE)

Inequalities in human development in the 21st century

Pedro Conceição

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

A sign is pictured at the Congress Center ahead of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland January 20, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

Stakeholder capitalism arrives at Davos

Addisu Lashitew

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Security officers keep watch in front of an AI (Artificial Intelligence) sign at the annual Huawei Connect event in Shanghai, China September 18, 2019. REUTERS/Aly Song - RC1ADFE7A400

Whoever leads in artificial intelligence in 2030 will rule the world until 2100

Friday, January 17, 2020

Algerian protesters during an anti-government demonstration in the capital Algiers on December 10, 2019, ahead of the presidential vote scheduled for December 12. Algeria's contentious presidential election campaign is highlighting the vast gap between youth at the heart of a reformist protest movement and an ageing elite they see as clinging to power. The poll will see five candidates, all linked to ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, compete for the top office. But protesters, whose mass mobilisation forced the ex-strongman to resign from his two-decade tenure in April, have rallied weekly to say sweeping reforms must come ahead of any vote. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COMNo Use France Digital. No Use France Print.

Reforming Arab economies in times of distrust

Friday, January 17, 2020

People walk past Prada's fashion store in downtown Milan February 4, 2015. The trend in luxury goods is to drum up same store sales by curbing expansion and wowing customers with new products, yet Prada continues to pay over the odds to open swanky new shops and stock them with handbags little changed from previous bestsellers. Prada, say analysts, now urgently needs to focus less on new stores and more on new handbags. Picture taken February 4. To match Analysis PRADA-STRATEGY/ REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini (ITALY - Tags: BUSINESS FASHION)

Who gained from global growth last decade—and who will benefit by 2030?

Thursday, January 16, 2020

Contributors

Homi Kharas

Interim Vice President and Director - Global Economy and Development

Shanta Devarajan

Professor of the Practice of Development - Georgetown University

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Wolfgang Fengler

Lead Economist, Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation - World Bank

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Indermit Gill

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

About Future Development

This blog was first launched in September 2013 by the World Bank and the Brookings Institution in an effort to hold governments more accountable to poor people and offer solutions to the most prominent development challenges. Continuing this goal, Future Development was re-launched in January 2015 at brookings.edu.

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