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.
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.
Policy Research Working Paper series publication roundup for the weeks of May 24 and 31
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This blog is a biweekly feature highlighting recent working papers from around the World Bank Group that were published in the
World Bank’s Policy Research Working Paper Series. This entry introduces eight papers published during the weeks of May 24 and 31 on various topics, the mortality and poverty impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, firm exit during the pandemic, female land titling in Lesotho, the return of Syrian refugees, among others. Here are the highlights of select findings.
First, we present two papers which analyze the mortality and poverty impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic across countries. A paper on