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A general view of the 66th World Health Assembly at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva May 20, 2013. The World Health Assembly is the annual meeting of the World Health Organization's (WHO) 194 Member States and is its highest decision-making body. This year marks the 66th World Health Assembly

Bringing global health actors together for a healthier world

Ikuo Takizawa · Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Displaced Afghans load aid near the site of a landslide at the Argo district in Badakhshan province May 5, 2014. Grief-stricken and desititute Afghan villagers vented anger with their government as they scrambled for emergency aid, three days after deadly landslides engulfed their homes. Some 300 homes in Aab Bareek, a village in the Argo district of Badakhshan, a remote and mountainous northeastern province, were buried under up to 50 metres of earth and debris. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: DISASTER) - GM1EA56055K01

The case against a US retreat from international development

Friday, August 10, 2018

A researcher works on his terminal at the Microsoft India research centre in Bangalore June 24, 2009. Staffed with about 60 full-time researchers, many of them Indians with PhDs from top universities in the United States, the centre is at the cutting edge of Microsoft's R&D. It covers seven areas of research including mobility and cryptography. Its success, including developing a popular tool for Microsoft's new search engine Bing, underscores the potential of R&D in India at a time when cost-conscious firms are keen to offshore to save money by using talented researchers abroad. To match feature INDIA-R&D/ REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe (INDIA SCI TECH BUSINESS) - GM1E57L0LK701

Developing statistical capacity in low-income countries

Ryuichi Tomizawa and Noriharu Masugi

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Heavy machinery is seen at Frontier copper mine in Fungurume, southern Democratic Republic of Congo May 25, 2010. Production at First Quantum Minerals' Frontier copper mine in Congo continued round the clock on Wednesday, despite a court decision to revoke the Canadian miner's license. Picture taken May 25, 2010. REUTERS/Katrina Manson (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC of CONGO - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS) - GM1E65R079Q01

7 surprising findings about resource-rich sub-Saharan Africa

Ivailo Izvorski

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Renault cars produced in Turkey and awaiting export throughout Europe, are lined-up in front of ship containers in the port of Koper October 14, 2013. Automotive industry association ACEA said October 16, 2013, that new car registrations in Europe climbed 5.5 percent to 1.19 million vehicles in September, only the third month a gain was recorded in the past two years. But within the European Union, the level of demand was the second lowest on record for the month of September since it began tabulating results for the 27 member states in 2003. Picture taken October 14. REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic (SLOVENIA - Tags: TRANSPORT BUSINESS) - BM2E9AF0WYI01

Back to the 1930s: Do US tariffs signal a shift to Smoot-Hawley-type protectionism?

Thursday, July 26, 2018

Students sit in the library of the university KU Leuven "Katholieke Universiteit Leuven" in Leuven, Belgium

Europe is aging—it’s high time to invest in youth

Christian Bodewig

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

People wait in line in front of a government-run employment office in Madrid March 4, 2014. The number of registered jobless in Spain fell by 0.04 percent in February from a month earlier, or by 1,949 people, leaving 4.8 million people out of work, data from the Labour Ministry showed on Tuesday. It was the first time that the jobless figure fell in the month of February since the start of Spain's financial crisis in 2007. REUTERS/Andrea Comas (SPAIN - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1EA341GNO01

Can government help the unemployed find work?

Jochen Kluve and Johannes Koettl

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Medics wearing protective gear examine a patient at a hospital in Kozhikode in the southern state of Kerala, India May 21, 2018. Picture taken May 21, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer - RC187C8595D0

Containing a deadly virus: Lessons from the Nipah outbreak in India

Monday, July 23, 2018

A farmer checks on his crop of tomatos in Tipaza, west of Algiers, Algeria June 3, 2015. Besides falling energy revenues, Algeria also has a growing number of mouths to feed, with the population put at 40 million and increasing by an estimated one million a year. Main foodstuffs, including cereals, sugar and milk are subsidised, but there is no such help for some products such as vegetables, which keeps prices high. Official statistics show the state imports on average five million tonnes of wheat and barley a year, but that figure appears to be climbing. It hit some 7.4 million in 2014. Algeria last year took its first steps towards opening up the farming sector to foreign investors, inviting bids for 16 state-owned farms focused on grains, vegetables, fruit trees and cattle breeding. Picture taken June 3, 2015. To match story ALGERIA-AGRICULTURE/ REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina - GF10000120888

Micro and macro aid complement each other: A response to ‘broken aid’

Friday, July 20, 2018

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Liberal institutionalism—its threatened past, its threatened future

Tana Johnson and Andrew Heiss

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon addresses the Annual Conference of Swiss Developement Cooperation in Zurich, Switzerland January 22, 2016. On the screen behind are displayed the 17 goals of UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann - LR1EC1M141E1G

Should not meeting the Sustainable Development Goals get you fired?

Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

German Economy and Technology Minister Michael Glos presents the annual economy report during a news conference in Berlin January 21, 2009. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke (GERMANY) - BM2E51L0X5S01

What’s wrong with political leaders citing research?

Monday, July 16, 2018

A severely acute malnourished and internally displaced Congolese child is screened at the Tshiamala general referral hospital of Mwene Ditu in Kasai Oriental Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, March 15, 2018. Picture taken March 15, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - RC1D8FC05450

Counting who gets left behind: Current trends and gaps on the Sustainable Development Goals

Homi Kharas, John McArthur, and Krista Rasmussen

Friday, July 13, 2018

Contractors are seen working at the construction of Karuma 600 megawatts hydroelectric power project under construction on River Nile, Uganda February 21, 2018. REUTERS/James Akena - RC1A39E61A70

How the BUILD Act advances development

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

An Iraqi works at a car repair shop east of Mosul, Iraq April 27, 2017. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem - RC1B5D9D6CE0

Do social protection programs improve life satisfaction? Lessons from Iraq

Talajeh Livani and Carol Graham

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Contributors

Homi Kharas

Interim Vice President and Director - Global Economy and Development

Shanta Devarajan

Senior Director, Development Economics - World Bank

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Wolfgang Fengler

Lead Economist, Trade and Competitiveness - World Bank

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Indermit Gill

Director, Duke Center for International Development, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University

About Future Development

This blog was first launched in September 2013 by the World Bank 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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