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A sign is pictured at the Congress Center ahead of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland January 20, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

Stakeholder capitalism arrives at Davos

Addisu Lashitew · Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Security officers keep watch in front of an AI (Artificial Intelligence) sign at the annual Huawei Connect event in Shanghai, China September 18, 2019. REUTERS/Aly Song - RC1ADFE7A400

Whoever leads in artificial intelligence in 2030 will rule the world until 2100

Friday, January 17, 2020

Algerian protesters during an anti-government demonstration in the capital Algiers on December 10, 2019, ahead of the presidential vote scheduled for December 12. Algeria's contentious presidential election campaign is highlighting the vast gap between youth at the heart of a reformist protest movement and an ageing elite they see as clinging to power. The poll will see five candidates, all linked to ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, compete for the top office. But protesters, whose mass mobilisation forced the ex-strongman to resign from his two-decade tenure in April, have rallied weekly to say sweeping reforms must come ahead of any vote. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COMNo Use France Digital. No Use France Print.

Reforming Arab economies in times of distrust

Friday, January 17, 2020

People walk past Prada's fashion store in downtown Milan February 4, 2015. The trend in luxury goods is to drum up same store sales by curbing expansion and wowing customers with new products, yet Prada continues to pay over the odds to open swanky new shops and stock them with handbags little changed from previous bestsellers. Prada, say analysts, now urgently needs to focus less on new stores and more on new handbags. Picture taken February 4. To match Analysis PRADA-STRATEGY/ REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini (ITALY - Tags: BUSINESS FASHION)

Who gained from global growth last decade—and who will benefit by 2030?

Thursday, January 16, 2020

A newborn baby is pictured next to her mother Zahida Begum, 22, a Rohingya refugee after the delivery at a medical centre in Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh October 28, 2017. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Living into the 22nd century

Wolfgang Fengler

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

A protester holds up a placard at Gani Fawehinmi square during a protest against a fuel subsidy removal in Lagos January 9, 2012. Police shot dead one protester and wounded nearly two dozen as thousands of Nigerians demonstrated against the axing of fuel subsidies in Africa's top oil producing nation on Monday and unions launched an indefinite nationwide strike. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye(NIGERIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS ENERGY BUSINESS)

Development policy in the populist era

Shanta Devarajan

Monday, January 13, 2020

A health worker walks between parked ambulances at the Avenue hospital in Nairobi, Kenya February 1, 2019. Picture taken February 1, 2019. REUTERS/Baz Ratner - RC15F30A3BC0

What happens to health financing during the middle-income transition?

Ipchita Bharali and Indermit Gill

Monday, December 16, 2019

A man walks along a snow-covered square in central Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan November 28, 2019. REUTERS/Pavel Mikheyev - RC2BKD9QTRAE

Encouraging transformations in Central Asia

Lilia Burunciuc and Ivailo Izvorski

Friday, December 13, 2019

Primary school students wear masks with No Smoking sign during an event to promote the World No Tobacco Day on May 31, in Linyi, Shandong province, China May 30, 2019. China Daily via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT. - RC1DEBFED000

The 5 problems China must tackle now to achieve the 2030 health SDGs

Shu Chen, Wenhui Mao, and Shenglan Tang

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

A camel casts a shadow next to its herder at a watering hole outside the town of Aleg, Mauritania, May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Joe Penney (MAURITANIA - Tags: ANIMALS SOCIETY) - GM1E85Q0MGN01

Climate change in the Sahel: How can cash transfers help protect the poor?

Christian Bodewig

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

A Chinese flag is seen on the top of a car near a coal-fired power plant in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China November 27, 2019. Picture taken November 27, 2019. REUTERS/Jason Lee u000d - RC2UKD9SW3H2

Top emitters must commit to a U-turn at COP25

Monday, December 2, 2019

Palestinian-Syrian refugee Ahmed, 27, his future wife Hanin, 18, and Hanin's mother Turki visit a pastry shop the day before their engagement party in Kilis, Turkey, March 10, 2017. Ahmed's and Hanin's journey started amid Syria's conflict and brought the two Palestinians from their homes in Damascus' suburbs to Turkey. They were introduced in the winter of 2017. As they lived in different cities, they texted for months before Ahmed took a 20-hour bus trip from Izmir to the border town of Kilis to meet her, which led to their engagement. REUTERS/Ekaterina Anchevskaya SEARCH "SYRIA MIGRANTS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC1460F5A5A0

Turkey’s Syrian refugees—the welcome fades

Monday, November 25, 2019

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How inclusive is growth?

Meagan Dooley and Homi Kharas

Friday, November 22, 2019

A woman walks in front of new murals of the former US embassy in Tehran, Iran November 2, 2019. Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY - RC1267CD4B60

To talk or not to talk to Trump: A question that divides Iran

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

A man walks past "Democracy Wall" outside the library of the University of Hong Kong February 17, 2015. A campus election at the top Hong Kong university degenerated into an acrimonious campaign against mainland Chinese candidates, highlighting simmering tensions two months after pro-democracy protests led by local students paralysed parts of the city. Picture taken February 17, 2015. REUTERS/Bobby Yip (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION) - GM1EB2I0EXC01

The ongoing debate on the reform of the definition of Official Development Assistance

Monday, November 18, 2019

Contributors

Homi Kharas

Interim Vice President and Director - 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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