Future Development

Aerial image of Florida Keys single family homes on stilts under construction

Enhancing climate change resilience through self-protection, public investment, and market insurance

Matthew E. Kahn and Somik V. Lall · Friday, October 15, 2021

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The reception desk staff is seen at the Pearl Continental hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan April 10, 2018. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz

The promise of services-led development

Gaurav Nayyar, Mary Hallward-Driemeier, and Elwyn Davies

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

View of a 12-meter-long QR code tunnel in Zhengzhou city, central China's Henan province, 23 April 2019.A tunnel featuring QR code appeared in a shopping mall in central China's Zhengzhou. This tunnel is made of 552 QR codes.No Use China. No Use France.

Asia’s consumer map is being redrawn

Jeongmin Seong and Tiago Devesa

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

A woman wearing a mask as a preventive measure against the spread of covid-19 walks past Souvenir shops.Poland is now passing for the second wave of Coronavirus and life continues under restrictive measures such as the closure of stores inside shopping malls, gatherings with a maximum of 5 people, bars and restaurants operating on a take away. Poland has registered more than one million COVID-19 infections and the death toll above 25000. (Photo by Omar Marques / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

How COVID-19 policy responses differed in Central Europe

Leonardo Iacovone, Natasha Kapil, Lukasz Marek Marc, Giovanna Marcolongo, Ilias Skamnelos, and Gallina A. Vincelette

Monday, October 11, 2021

How one country responded to disappointing Doing Business scores

Akhtar Mahmood

Friday, October 8, 2021

Carbon border taxes: What are their implications for developing countries?

Elena Ianchovichina and Harun Onder

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

It’s complicated: Lessons from 25 years of measuring governance

Daniel Kaufmann

Thursday, September 30, 2021

United States Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Power testifies during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. The Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony from multiple law enforcement agency nominations today, including top level DEA and ATF nominees, and other Judicial and Department of Justice nominees. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

USAID’s local staff are an overlooked resource to advance locally led development

Justin Fugle

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Computer and environmental symbols laid over a photo of an oil well

The risks of US-EU divergence on corporate sustainability disclosure

Addisu Lashitew

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

People wait to receive a dose of COVAXIN coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine manufactured by Bharat Biotech, during a vaccination drive organised by SEEDS, an NGO which normally specialise in providing relief after floods and other natural disasters, at an under-construction flyover in New Delhi, India, August 31, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

The risks of an uneven economic recovery in an unequal world

Ambar Narayan, Alexandru Cojocaru, Miriam Muller, and David Newhouse

Monday, September 27, 2021

Workers make clothes at an apparel manufacturing company in Enshi city, south China's Hubei province, 21 November 2020.Xuan'en County introduced apparel manufacturing enterprises beside the relocation sites in Shadaogou Town and Gaoluo Town to help with employment. So far, it has helped more than 900 people who were relocated to obtain employment and increase income.No Use China. No Use France.

What’s next for poverty reduction policies in China?

Maria Ana Lugo, Martin Raiser, and Ruslan Yemtsov

Friday, September 24, 2021

A view shows cars stuck in a traffic jam in Beirut, Lebanon June 10, 2021. Picture taken June 10, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

How to kick-start the decoupling of emissions from economic growth in MENA

Martin Philipp Heger and Lukas Vashold

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Billionaire American businessman Jeff Bezos (2nd-L) poses for pictures with crew mates, from left, Oliver Damen, 18, Bezos, Wally Funk, 82, and Mark Bezos at the landing pad after they flew on Blue Origin's inaugural flight to the edge of space, in the nearby town of Van Horn, Texas, U.S. July 20, 2021. REUTERS/Joe Skipper

On space barons and global poverty

Harun Onder

Thursday, September 9, 2021

FILE PHOTO: A Congolese man buys groceries at an open air market, amid concerns about the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, March 28, 2020. REUTERS/Kenny Katombe/File Photo

Cash and the city: Digital COVID-19 social response in Kinshasa

Paul Bance, Laura Bermeo, and François Kabemba

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Why is blue-collar work still male-dominated?

Alice Evans

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

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Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

About Future Development

The Future Development blog informs and stimulates debate on key development issues.

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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