Is Research on Development Economics Serving Sub-Saharan Africa? At this year’s Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics, Markus had the privilege of moderating a panel titled “How can Development Economics Meet the Moment? Practice, Research, and Teaching i...

Sub-Saharan Africa faces a triple challenge in top economic journals: low volume of research, little policy relevance, & a lack of African representation.🌍

An #ABCDE2025 panel led by @markusgold.bsky.social spotlighted these gaps & offered ways forward. More:
https://bit.ly/4g8DEb7

Populist Rhetoric, Poverty Realities: Lessons from ABCDE 2025 There is no easy escape from the deepening populist retrenchment around the world. But let’s not forget that development is measured not by how fast an economy grows, but rather by the improvements to...

This year's #ABCDE2025, themed “Development in the Age of Populism,” sparked discussions on trade and geopolitics, poverty reduction, & more.

Following the conference, @eeshani.bsky.social shares what we learned—and didn’t—about populism & poverty in LMICs:
www.cgdev.org/blog/populis...

With Leonard Wantchekon and Matteo Bugamelli

With moderator Gero Carletto and fellow panelists Andrew Dabalen, Amb. Robin Renee Sanders, and Leonard Wantchekon

It was great to participate in #ABCDE2025 at the World Bank last week to discuss growth and opportunity in #Africa. Agriculture is foundational to growth on the continent. We must boost investment in R&D to increase productivity and enable transformation in this crucial sector.

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I really enjoyed the #ABCDE2025 conference last week. I underline a few of my favorite moments here: www.cgdev.org/blog/five-my....

Magisterial summary by David Evans of highlights of misnamed #worldbank #ABCDE2025 on development in era of #populism url:www.cgdev.org/blog/five-my-human-capit...

Screenshot of the World Bank's Preston Auditorium for the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics, July 25th 2025

Big thanks to #ABCDE2025 for an amazing 4 days blending new research with big-picture debate on global development in this era of political change.

Here's their video of my 15-min summary of #FoodPricesForNutrition, on whether & how agriculture can meet health needs:
www.youtube.com/live/AEV4YE1...

Wrapping up a great #ABCDE2025 with a concluding “fireside chat” on human development in LMICs between Mamta Murthi, HD VP of the World Bank and CGD Senior Fellow and Education Program Director @daveevansphd.bsky.social

Discussions of "brain drain" often neglect the many channel by which emigration can boost human capital in origin countries. I find this figure wonderfully enlightening.

Theoharides at #ABCDE2025.

Here's a recent overview of the work in Science: johanneshaushofer.com/publications....

The world's biggest food distribution program reduced stunting and subsequently increased wages.

Kathy Baylis at #ABCDE2025.

Paper pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
Summary blog voxdev.org/topic/health...

"Children with longer exposure to iodized salt in utero and infancy during the 1990s went on to have lower mortality and higher scores." www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5... @kibrom.bsky.social on new work from Ethiopia. #ABCDE2025

Will Masters of Tufts University shows how a well-crafted indicator (in this case, the lowest cost of a healthy diet) can actively inform civil society discussion.

For more, read his paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #ABCDE2025

How much does it cost to provide a healthy diet? How does this vary across countries? www.worldbank.org/en/programs/... Will Masters shares an open-access resource that seeks to compare across countries at #ABCDE2025.

.@leecrawfurd.bsky.social: "Lead exposure could explain 1/5th of the learning gap between rich & poor countries"

academic.oup.com/wbro/article... #ABCDE2025

@markusgold.bsky.social initiates a discussion on "how can development economics meet the moment?" at #ABCDE2025 www.youtube.com/live/_XgZfps...

.@shantad.bsky.social highlights theory (openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/pub...) on how moving from mineral wealth to tax revenues may result in broader distribution of benefits in society. #ABCDE2025

He also points to where we may see this coming (in Oman): www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/w....

Rema Hanna shows from a survey of policymakers that many still believe that cash transfers ↑ spending on alcohol/tobacco. #ABCDE2025

Popova & I find that across 19 studies in 8 countries, cash transfers usually ↓ alcohol/tobacco spending. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1....

Rolling back Mexico's big conditional cash transfer program resulted in "reduced enrollment and raised employment in high-school-aged boys by 12 and 8 percentage points". tomvogl.github.io/marquez_park... Tom Vogl at #ABCDE2025

Poverty fell dramatically in the last half-century, but often not for the reasons we think. econweb.ucsd.edu/~pniehaus/pa... Tom Vogl on this at #ABCDE2025

I highly recommend this great panel on Artificial Intelligence and International Development.

www.youtube.com/live/CriEhgw...

Full of insights about how AI may change both more and less than you think. Starts at 5h36m45s of the video. #ABCDE2025

Such a pleasure to be at the World Bank to speak at the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE).

#abcde2025

@rglenner.bsky.social advocates for radically simplifying how we do aid (and how we communicate it).

www.youtube.com/live/uvyFva0... (starts at 10m30s) #ABCDE2025