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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Future Development

Economics to End Poverty

COVID-19 pandemic shows the need to strengthen digital safety nets for women

Learning losses due to COVID-19 could add up to $10 trillion

Two lessons from ASEAN for regional integration in Africa

How is COVID-19 affecting America’s rich?

How well is Ghana—with one of the best testing capacities in Africa—responding to COVID-19?

Addressing Romania’s skills deficit to keep pace with an evolving labor market

Romania’s long-term growth challenge: Raising the alarm of skills deficit

How investing in health has a significant economic payoff for developing economies

Are natural resources a curse, a blessing, or a double-edged sword?

Discrimination and prejudice in development

Middle East food security amid the COVID-19 pandemic

The impact of COVID-19 and the policy response in India

What the pandemic reveals about governance, state capture, and natural resources

Unprecedented damage by COVID-19 requires an unprecedented policy response

Can we avoid a lost decade of development?

Contributors

Homi Kharas

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

Shanta Devarajan

Professor of the Practice of Development - Georgetown University

Wolfgang Fengler

Lead Economist, Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation - World Bank

Indermit Gill

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

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