Future Development

Cargo ship at the Port of Mombasa in Kenya

US-Africa trade relations: Why is AGOA better than a bilateral free trade agreement?

Gracelin Baskaran · Thursday, September 24, 2020

Smoke stacks of an oil refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas

Doing Business rankings that endanger good regulations

Monday, September 21, 2020

SOUTH AFRICA - Durban - 08 July 2020 - Grade 11 pupils from J.G Zuma High School in Kwamashu, Durban queue early in the morning joining other pupils over 2 million from grade R, 6 and 11 pupils as they return to the classrooms after almost four months at home.Picture: Motshwari Mofokeng/African News Agency/RealTime Images/ABACAPRESS.COMNo Use South Africa out.

Financing a comprehensive and equitable COVID-19 response

Mahmoud Mohieldin and Michael Kelleher

Friday, September 18, 2020

Foreign workers sit on the street after losing their jobs, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 7, 2020. REUTERS/Ahmed Yosri

Pandemic highlights the vulnerability of migrant workers in the Middle East

Thursday, September 17, 2020

A hairdresser uses her phone as she waits for clients at a makeshift saloon in Soweto, August 4, 2014. While still largely based in the informal economy, the African haircare business has become a multi-billion dollar industry that stretches to China and India and has drawn global giants such as L'Oreal and Unilever. Hairdressers are a fixture of markets and taxi ranks across Africa, reflecting both the continent's rising incomes and demand from hair-conscious women. Picture taken August 4. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko (SOUTH AFRICA - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY TELECOMS)

What types of interventions promote women’s entrepreneurship?

Ana Revenga and Meagan Dooley

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Mariatu Sesay, 15, smiles as she carries her daughter Nadia while she walks outside her house in the countryside village of Sierra Leone July 11, 2019. REUTERS/Cooper Inveen

The power of investing in girls in Sierra Leone

Youssouf Kiendrebeogo and Quentin Wodon

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Man looking at a letter on a table with a calculator and money

How should governments communicate with taxpayers during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Delina Ibrahimaj, Christoph Ungerer, Jonathan Karver, and Hilda Shijaku

Monday, September 14, 2020

A child reacts during a demonstration in support of women and against gender violence, in Buenos Aires, Argentina March 9, 2020. REUTERS/Mariana Greif

USAID’s draft policy retrenches on gender equality

George Ingram and Nora O’Connell

Thursday, September 10, 2020

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 1: Sign outside the World Bank Group in downtown Washington, DC on June 1, 2014.

What future for the World Bank’s Doing Business project?

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

A Palestinian woman uses her mobile phone in the West Bank city of Ramallah January 24, 2018. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

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

Friday, July 31, 2020

Empty desks in a classroom

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

Joao Pedro Azevedo, Amer Hasan, Koen Geven, Diana Goldemberg, and Syedah Aroob Iqbal

Thursday, July 30, 2020

ASEAN and member state flags

Two lessons from ASEAN for regional integration in Africa

Souleymane Coulibaly

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

100 dollar bill with face mask

How is COVID-19 affecting America’s rich?

Kelsey Wu, Marco Fengler, Thomas Mitterling, and Max Thomasberger

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

A trader’s temperature is taken at the entrance of the reopened Rood-Wooko city central market, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso April 20, 2020. Picture taken April 20, 2020. REUTERS / Anne Mimault

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

Jiaqi Zhang, Justice Nonvignon, and Wenhui Mao

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

A worker checks installations at Isalnita coal power plant, May 30, 2014. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel (ROMANIA - Tags: BUSINESS ENERGY)

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

Vincent Tsoungui Belinga, Neil Butcher, and Alexandria Valerio

Thursday, July 23, 2020

Contributors

Homi Kharas

Senior Fellow - 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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