Future Development

The Future Development blog informs and stimulates debate on key sustainable development issues within and across all countries.

Now hosted by the Center for Sustainable Development, the Future Development blog was originally 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. In the ensuing years, the blog’s scope evolved in parallel with ongoing international policy debates and was formally updated in November 2022 to focus on broader challenges of sustainable development around the world.

Man holds sign that reads USAID AIDS the USA outside government building

U.S. Foreign Policy Why merging USAID into State would undermine U.S. strategic interests

George Ingram

February 3, 2025

Global Economy & Development Raising female employment in South Asia, one step at a time

Laveesh Bhandari, Franziska Ohnsorge

January 30, 2025

Global Economy & Development 3 reasons the global economy could outperform expectations

Indermit Gill, M. Ayhan Kose

January 27, 2025

Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence is transforming middle-class jobs. Can it also help the poor?

Luis Felipe López-Calva, Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán, Hernan Winkler

January 18, 2025

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