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People walk past roadside stalls with umbrellas in the central business district, near Marina in Lagos, Nigeria December 13, 2016.REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye - RC119A3413E0

Rethinking global poverty reduction in 2019

Homi Kharas, Kristofer Hamel, and Martin Hofer · Thursday, December 13, 2018

A Turkish official points while giving a tour to media of the Turkish-made power ship 'Kaya Bey' after a dedication ceremony at Karachi Port on November 21, 2010. The Turkish-made power plant aboard the vessel will feed 232 megawatts to the national grid within a month, local media reported. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS ENERGY) - GM1E6BL1QP501

Building beyond borders

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

A child gets an injection of chemotherapy at the Misurata Cancer Center in Misurata, Libya August 5, 2018. Picture taken August 5, 2018. REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny - RC1855561670

Is there a doctor in the house? The challenge of primary health care in Libya

Ernest Massiah, Moustafa Abdalla, and Kent Garber

Monday, December 10, 2018

An official from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) collects data and registers a Congolese migrant who crossed from Angola at the Kamako border, Kasai province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, October 13, 2018. Picture taken October 13, 2018. REUTERS/Giulia Paravicini - RC1D32E4EC70

Achieving better results in global development even when you can’t innovate radically

Kristin M. Lord

Thursday, December 6, 2018

Iranian rials, U.S. dollars and Iraqi dinars are seen at a currency exchange shop in Basra, Iraq November 3, 2018. Picture taken November 3, 2018. REUTERS/Essam al-Sudani - RC18BD110300

Iran’s economic reforms in retreat

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago state in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., April 6, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria - RC1510574D80

Trump and Xi at the G-20: Why bilateralism won’t work

Saturday, December 1, 2018

People attend a protest against the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest, Hungary May 8, 2018. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner - RC1244588330

How should development organizations work with populist governments?

Massimiliano Santini 

Thursday, November 29, 2018

A general view of the Downtown skyline with the 110 Freeway in the foreground in Los Angeles, California March 30, 2016. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni - GF10000366649

Can US cities help the world achieve the Sustainable Development Goals?

Anthony F. Pipa

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Children of the Satere Mawe Indian tribe school at the Sahu Ape village pose for a picture in Manacapuru, Amazonas state, Brazil, July 10, 2015. Nearly three years after Taliban gunmen shot Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, the teenage activist last week urged world leaders gathered in New York to help millions more children go to school. World Teachers' Day falls on 5 October, a Unesco initiative highlighting the work of educators struggling to teach children amid intimidation in Pakistan, conflict in Syria or poverty in Vietnam. Even so, there have been some improvements: the number of children not attending primary school has plummeted to an estimated 57 million worldwide in 2015, the U.N. says, down from 100 million 15 years ago. Reuters photographers have documented learning around the world, from well-resourced schools to pupils crammed into corridors in the Philippines, on boats in Brazil or in crowded classrooms in Burundi. REUTERS/Bruno KellyPICTURE 13 OF 47 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "SCHOOLS AROUND THE WORLD"SEARCH "EDUCATORS SCHOOLS" FOR ALL IMAGES - GF10000226436

Prioritizing public schooling over social transfers in Brazil

Martin Raiser and Joao Pedro Wagner De Azevedo

Monday, November 26, 2018

An ampule of one of the new therapeutics in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo, August 25, 2018. Picture taken August 25, 2018. WHO/Junior Kannah/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC1C7DAF2060

We need a consensus on the definition of ‘global public goods for health’

Gavin Yamey, Osondu Ogbuoji, and Kaci Kennedy

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

An employee of clothing retailer Arena Modna Kuca sews in the company's factory in the Adriatic town of Pula July 1, 2014. Picture taken July 1, 2014. To match Special Report BALKANS-SALARIES/ REUTERS/Antonio Bronic (CROATIA - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY TEXTILE) - GM1EA7A0T0S01

How economic integration can increase living standards in the Western Balkans

Christoph Ungerer, Marco Hernandez, and Gallina A. Vincelette

Monday, November 19, 2018

Vehicles pass by on a road near the construction site of the new Great Mosque, which is being built by the China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC), in Algiers, Algeria January 20, 2016. Algeria is turning to China for external financing for several infrastructure projects including a new $3.2 billion port as the North African OPEC state looks to weather the collapse in global oil prices. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina - GF20000101188

What happens when development cooperation becomes development competition

Friday, November 16, 2018

An injured man, who was among the people evacuated on Monday from the two Syrian besieged Shi'ite towns of al-Foua and Kefraya, receives treatment at a hospital in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon December 29, 2015. A U.N. operation to evacuate around 450 Syrian fighters and their families from two besieged Syrian areas was completed on Monday with the arrival of planes carrying them to Beirut and Hatay airport in Turkey, U.N. and airport sources said. REUTERS/Aziz Taher - GF10000277887

The challenges in providing health care to Syrian refugees

Thursday, November 15, 2018

A woman combs her hair in the back courtyard of a traditional colonial-era Board House dating back about a century in the Murray Town neighbourhood of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown April 28, 2012. Board Houses are a reconstruction of cabin-like structures built in the 18th century on the American eastern seaboard. There were some modifications though, notably a three-foot base layer of porous local stone (seen here) that helped anchor the house down during Sierra Leone's torrential wet season. Picture taken April 28, 2012. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (SIERRA LEONE - Tags: SOCIETY) ATTENTION EDITORS - PICTURE 06 OF 29 OF PACKAGE 'FREETOWN - FADING ARCHITECTURE' - GM1E8531KOM01

Why the World Bank is taking a wide-angle view of poverty

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Workers look on as a cargo ship approaches a terminal at the port of Qingdao in Shandong province, China November 8, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT. - RC1BD4412950

How to fight a trade war: Turn the other cheek

Shanta Devarajan

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Contributors

Homi Kharas

Interim Vice President and Director - Global Economy and Development

Shanta Devarajan

Senior Director, Development Economics - World Bank

Acting Chief Economist - 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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