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Ms. Leila E. Martinez, a Puerto Rican math teacher at Iroquois High School, teaches her class virtually from school after students have gone remote for a second week as cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant continue to surge and the untenable staffing numbers in schools in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. January 21, 2022. REUTERS/Amira Karaoud

We are losing a generation

Indermit Gill and Jaime Saavedra · Friday, January 28, 2022

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Asmaa Rasheed, a Syrian refugee storyteller living in Zaatari refugee camp, chats with her daughters, at the camp, in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, Jordan June 17, 2021. Picture taken June 17, 2021. REUTERS/Alaa Al Sukhni

Syrian refugees in Jordan: A decade and counting

Omer Karasapan

Thursday, January 27, 2022

Iranian women sit in a cafe after the launching of the "Hamdam" dating app, in Tehran, Iran, July 17, 2021. Picture taken July 17, 2021. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

The Middle East and North Africa’s patrilineal trap

Alice Evans

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Nouf al-Qahtani, Enablement Programs Manager at Saudi Human Resources Development Fund, walks in the office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia August 19, 2021. Picture taken August 19, 2021. REUTERS/Ahmed Yosri

Is Saudi Arabia entering a ‘Great Reshuffle’?

Nayib Rivera and Johannes Koettl

Monday, January 24, 2022

The digital transformation of agriculture in Indonesia

Lesly Goh

Friday, January 21, 2022

Upcoming DAC peer review is an opportunity to advance US development goals

George Ingram and Anthony F. Pipa

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Breakthrough: The promise of frontier technologies for sustainable development

Homi Kharas, John McArthur, and Izumi Ohno

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

A boy poses for a picture under a massive Bangladeshi flag, during a flag rally three days ahead of the country's 50th Victory Day anniversary, in front of the parliamentary building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 13, 2021. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

Success despite the odds: South Sudan and Bangladesh

Shanta Devarajan

Friday, January 14, 2022

Brussels, Belgium. 8th Sep. 2018.Activists hold placards and chant slogans during a demonstration to demand immediate an action on climate change in front of European Parliament.

Could 2022 be a year of hope for climate?

Wolfgang Fengler

Friday, January 14, 2022

Mexican Red Cross paramedics press on her arm after receiving a booster shot of the AstraZeneca coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico January 6, 2022. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

4 positive stories about global development prospects in 2022

Homi Kharas

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

An employee works at the IMI plant in Botevgrad, western Bulgaria, April 4, 2014. Dozens of foreign companies from Japan to South Africa are driving an auto component manufacturing boom that could lift the fortunes of Bulgaria, the European Union's poorest member. Picture taken April 4, 2014. To match BULGARIA-AUTOS/ REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov (BULGARIA - Tags: TRANSPORT BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT POLITICS)

Can COVID-19’s supply chain disruptions help Western Balkan competitiveness?

Yan Liu, Zenia Ann Rogatschnig, Harald Jedlicka, Sanja Madzarevic-Sujster, and Richard Record

Monday, December 20, 2021

A woman holding her mobile phone walks past a sales advertisement poster in front of a shoe store in Tokyo February 15, 2015. Japan's economy rebounded from recession to grow an annualized 2.2 percent in the final quarter of last year, giving a much-needed boost to premier Shinzo Abe's efforts to shake off decades of stagnation even as the global outlook deteriorates. Picture taken February 15, 2015. REUTERS/Yuya Shino (JAPAN - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS)

Does government debt increase after global recessions?

M. Ayhan Kose, Peter Nagle, Franziska Ohnsorge, and Naotaka Sugawara

Friday, December 17, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Euro, Hong Kong dollar, U.S. dollar, Japanese yen, pound and Chinese 100 yuan banknotes are seen in this picture illustration, January 21, 2016. REUTERS/Jason Lee/Illustration//File Photo

Debt tsunami of the pandemic

M. Ayhan Kose, Peter Nagle, Franziska Ohnsorge, and Naotaka Sugawara

Friday, December 17, 2021

Hardwiring the scaling-up habit in donor organizations

Johannes F. Linn

Thursday, December 16, 2021

A woman carries shopping bags downtown on Saturday of the first weekend of Advent.

The rapid rise of the urban consumer class

Wolfgang Fengler and Max Heinze

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

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Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

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About Future Development

The Future Development blog informs and stimulates debate on key development issues.

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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