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

Feb

5

2021

12:00—1:15 PM ET

What Will It Take to Achieve Universal Health?
Shantayanan Devarajan
January 21, 2021
In this edition of the Future of Development series, Pascaline Dupas and Jishnu Das will join host Shanta Devarajan to discuss how improvements in healthcare in developing countries can be pursued in the next coming years.
Blog Post

The Future of Development – Digital Agriculture
Shanta Devarajan
and
Ranil Dissanayake
January 12, 2021
The last 50 years have been marked by a dramatic reduction in poverty and an explosion in research on development, yet challenges remain. Our new event series aims to harness the lessons learnt and build upon the burgeoning body of research.

Dec

1

2020

9:00—10:15 AM ET

Digital Agriculture
Michael Kremer
et al.
November 16, 2020
The rapid spread of mobile phones in developing countries, coupled with recent advances in our ability to analyze big data through tools such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, has generated considerable excitement about the potential of information and communications technology (ICT) ...