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

Fiscal policy for COVID-19 and beyond

Learning in East Africa: Where are children advancing

Financing and debt management for emerging market economies

Less gratitude, please. How COVID-19 reveals the need for migration reform

Libya and its migrants confront new threats

What makes the World Bank so influential—its money or its ideas?

Which jobs are most at risk because of COVID-19?

Why restoring US leadership at the multilaterals is an important step for addressing COVID-19

In developing countries, communities and primary care providers—not hospitals—hold the key to successful pandemic response

The coronavirus is a siren for the health-related Sustainable Development Goals

A once-in-a-century pandemic collides with a once-in-a-decade census

Turning back the Poverty Clock: How will COVID-19 impact the world’s poorest people?

The unreal dichotomy in COVID-19 mortality between high-income and developing countries

An off-grid energy future requires learning from the past

COVID-19 has revealed a flaw in public health systems. Here’s how to fix it.

Contributors

Homi Kharas

Interim Vice President and Director - 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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