The Future of Development

In the Future of Development series, the Center for Global Development and the Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evaluation (gui2de) bring together development experts, scholars, and policymakers to address the big questions facing developing countries and help shape the agenda in global development over the next decade.

More from the Series

Blog Post
Lessons from Two Years of “The Future of Development”
Hannah Brown et al.
December 20, 2022
After two years, and nine sessions, it feels like a good time to reflect on the Future of Development series, what we’ve learned and what we still hope to achieve with it.

Sep

13

2022



12:00—1:15 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
The Future of Development: Gambling on Development
Masood Ahmed
et al.
September 07, 2022
In the Future of Development series, the Center for Global Development and the Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evaluation (gui2de) bring together development experts, scholars, and policymakers to address the big questions facing developing countries and help shape th...

May

10

2022



10:00—11:15 AM
The Future of Development: Why We Fight
May 05, 2022
Chris Blattman and Kate Cronin-Furman will join host Shanta Devarajan to discuss Blattman's new book, Why We Fight, which draws on economics, political science, and real-world interventions to lay out the root causes and remedies for war, what leads to conflict over compromise, and how peacemakers c...

Mar

3

2022



12:00—1:15 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Behavioral Development Economics
Shantayanan Devarajan
February 25, 2022
In the Future of Development series, the Center for Global Development and the Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evaluation (gui2de) bring together development experts, scholars, and policymakers to address the big questions facing developing countries and help shape th...
Blog Post
The Future of Development: Politics, Representation, and Development
Hannah Brown et al.
December 22, 2021
In the fifth installment of the Future of Development series, which brings together experts to discuss the big questions facing developing countries over the next decade, Leonard Wantchekon and Sarah Khan took on the role of politics in development (and vice versa), exploring how political distortio...

Oct

29

2021



9:00—10:15 AM EASTERN TIME (US AND CANADA)
India and Working Women
Shantayanan Devarajan
October 14, 2021
In the Future of Development series, the Center for Global Development and the Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evaluation (gui2de) bring together development experts, scholars, and policymakers to address the big questions facing developing countries and help shape th...
Blog Post
The Future of Development: Lessons from China’s Success (and Failures)
Shanta Devarajan
and
Ranil Dissanayake
August 26, 2021
Our series on the big challenges and opportunities for developing countries over the next couple of decades has so far largely focused on specific sectors: agriculture, health and finance. The fourth took a different tack, considering instead what we should—and should not—learn from the most dramati...