Future Development

Syrian refugees walk near tents at an informal tented settlement in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon March 12, 2021. Picture taken March 12, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Why Syrian refugees in Lebanon are a crisis within a crisis

Omer Karasapan and Sajjad Shah · Thursday, April 15, 2021

Women shop at Kourosh mall in western Tehran, Iran June 22, 2019. Picture taken June 22, 2019. Nazanin Tabatabaee/Wana News agency/via REUTERS. ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY

Iran’s middle class and the nuclear deal

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani

Thursday, April 8, 2021

Worker on forklift looking at camera

Making well-being a policy priority: Lessons from the 2021 World Happiness Report

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Dustin, an asylum-seeking migrant from Honduras, holds his six-year-old son Jerrardo, 6, as they awake at sunrise next to others who took refuge near a baseball field after crossing the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico on rafts, in La Joya, Texas, U.S., March 19, 2021. Emergency blankets were provided to the group of about 150 migrants from Central America by the U.S. Border Patrol agents. REUTERS/Adrees Latif TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

4 things the Biden administration should pay attention to with the border crisis

Elaine Denny, David Dow, Jose Ordoñez, Wayne Pitts, Diego Romero, Juan Tellez, Mateo Villamizar Chaparro, Erik Wibbels, and Pamela Zabala

Friday, April 2, 2021

A nurse holds a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at Ankara City Hospital in Ankara, Turkey, April 2, 2021. REUTERS/Cagla Gurdogan

For greater vaccine equity, first fix these misconceptions

Philip Schellekens

Friday, April 2, 2021

Loreto, Peru.- Peruvian entrepreneurs work developing products from the agro-industrial and aquaculture fishing sector in Loreto, Peru on September 3, 2020. The Peruvian economy plummeted 30.2% in the second quarter of the year, a figure that represents one of the greater falls of the GDP since there are historical records. This figure places the country among the most affected in economic terms in the world, according to the National Institute of Statistics of Peru (INE).

Funneling support to promising enterprises in developing countries

Thursday, April 1, 2021

Asylum-seeking mothers from Guatemala and Honduras carry their children after they crossed the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico on a raft, in Penitas, Texas, U.S., March 17, 2021. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

Climate, violence, and Honduran migration to the United States

Sarah Bermeo and David Leblang

Thursday, April 1, 2021

we are open sign hanging on the entrance door of a small cafe

Are better managed firms more pandemic-resilient?

Arti Grover and Valerie Karplus

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

The emerging markets e-commerce opportunity

Christoph Ungerer

Friday, March 26, 2021

Crowd of people at a concert

What will the consumer demand recovery from COVID-19 be like?

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

The headquarters of the African Development Bank (AfDB) are pictured in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, January 30, 2020.REUTERS/Luc Gnago

To recover from COVID-19, support regional development banks

Rabah Arezki and Patrick Bolton

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

People walk past by a Syrian jewelry shop in Istanbul's Kucukcekmece district, Turkey, July 5, 2019. Picture taken July 5, 2019. REUTERS/Kemal Aslan

Challenges facing Turkey’s Syrian businesses

Friday, March 19, 2021

Gaziantep,Turkey - November 16, 2018 : Historical street view in Gaziantep City of Turkey

Doubling down on city competitiveness for COVID-19 recovery

Ede Ijjasz and Megha Mukim

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Somali pirates captured by French forces in the Gulf of Aden are paraded at the northern port town of Bosasso, November 18, 2009. French navy handed over 12 pirates captured in the Indian Ocean to the authorities in the semi-autonomous northern Somali region of Puntland, its deputy police commander Mohamed Said Jaqanaf told Reuters. REUTERS/Abdiqani Hassan (SOMALIA CONFLICT SOCIETY CRIME LAW)

Why pirates attack: Geospatial evidence

Raj M. Desai and George E. Shambaugh

Monday, March 15, 2021

An employee of a money changer holds a stack of Indonesia rupiah notes before giving it to a customer in Jakarta, October 8, 2015. Most emerging Asian currencies dipped on Thursday as traders booked profits from recent gains and waited on minutes of the Federal Reserve's last policy meeting for any clues on the timing of a U.S. interest rate hike. REUTERS/Beawiharta

The problem with linking debt forgiveness to the Sustainable Development Goals

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Contributors

Homi Kharas

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Sustainable Development

Shanta Devarajan

Professor of the Practice of Development - Georgetown University

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Wolfgang Fengler

Lead Country Economist, Southern Africa - 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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