Homi Kharas
Brookings
United States
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Internet poverty: The next frontier in development
Cuaresma, Fenz, Fisher, and Kharas introduce a new Internet Poverty Index that can create standardized estimates of people living in internet poverty globally. → Read More
Long-run impacts of COVID-19 on extreme poverty
Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley estimate where poverty will likely be concentrated in 2030, and what can be done to reverse these trends. → Read More
Turning back the Poverty Clock: How will COVID-19 impact the world’s poorest people?
Homi Kharas and Kris Hamel ask what will happen to the number of poor people in the world as a result of COVID-19. → Read More
A global tipping point: Half the world is now middle class or wealthier
Just over 50 percent of the world’s population, or some 3.8 billion people, now live in households with enough discretionary spending to be considered middle class or rich. → Read More
The start of a new poverty narrative
Homi Kharas, Kristofer Hamel, and Martin Hofer highlight two new storylines that depict what is happening to global extreme poverty. → Read More
The unprecedented expansion of the global middle class
Seven years ago I published a set of projections suggesting that the emerging middle class in developing countries was about to surge (Kharas, 2010). I argued further that demand from this segment … → Read More
Changing views of how to change the world
In the past, when governments have wanted to change the world, they negotiated intergovernmental agreements. Homi Kharas explains that the new theory of change is through markets, data, and innovation. → Read More
Want to save the planet? Invest in girls' education
The potential for girls' education to help address climate change has gotten the least attention from the international community. In a new piece, Rebecca Winthrop and Homi Kharas argue that if policymakers can link the two, it would have tremendous potential to benefit both issues. → Read More
Climate change, fertility and girls’ education
In this post, Homi Kharas argues that the cheapest, most cost-effective mechanism for reducing carbon emissions is girls’ education. → Read More
Disrupting development with digital technologies
Following the 2015 Brookings Blum Roundtable, held in Aspen, Colorado, this report highlights the most prominent themes discussed and debated among participants, including the role of digital technologies in global development. → Read More
Forecasting 2016: It’s complicated
For the first Future Development post of 2016, co-editors Shanta Devarajan, Wolfgang Fengler, and Homi Kharas share their predictions for the year to come. → Read More
Where were the big development surprises in 2015?
Last January, Future Development co-editors Shanta Devarajan, Wolfgang Fengler, and Homi Kharas made predictions for 2015. In this post, they review their predictions and the major surprises that happened this year. → Read More
Can we end rural hunger and reach the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals?
Homi Kharas and John McArthur discuss their Ending Rural Hunger project, designed to help the world achieve one important facet of the “No Hunger” Sustainable Development Goal. “[P]robably about ¾ of the [food insecurity] problem that we’re dealing with globally is actually in rural areas,” Kharas says in this podcast. McArthur explains, “I think the first thing to note is that the world is… → Read More
Can we end rural hunger and reach the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals?
Homi Kharas and John McArthur discuss their Ending Rural Hunger project, designed to help the world achieve one important facet of the “No Hunger” Sustainable Development Goal. “[P]robably about ¾ of the [food insecurity] problem that we’re dealing with globally is actually in rural areas,” Kharas says in this podcast. McArthur explains, “I think the first thing to note is that the world is… → Read More
Can we end rural hunger and reach the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals?
Homi Kharas and John McArthur discuss their Ending Rural Hunger project, designed to help the world achieve one important facet of the “No Hunger” Sustainable Development Goal. “[P]robably about ¾ of the [food insecurity] problem that we’re dealing with globally is actually in rural areas,” Kharas says in this podcast. McArthur explains, “I think the first thing to note is that the world is… → Read More
Dispatch from Italy: Ending Rural Hunger
From Rome, Homi Kharas and John McArthur discuss their research on ending rural hunger, and why eliminating it by 2030 will be a challenging but feasible goal. → Read More
I expect great outcomes from the Sustainable Development Goals
Last week, Bill Easterly called the sustainable development goals (SDGs) senseless, dreamy, and garbled. Senior Fellow Homi Kharas outlines what the SDGs have already accomplished, and the positive results he expects in the future. → Read More
Dispatch from UNGA: It’s done. The 2030 agenda for sustainable development has been approved.
Writing from the United Nations General Assembly, Senior Fellow Homi Kharas reflects on the approval of the 17 sustainable development goals. → Read More
The post-2015 agenda and the evolution of the World Bank Group
Homi Kharas argues that the Addis Action plan and the SDGs represent a milestone in the changed thinking about the role of the multilateral development banks (MDBs) and the World Bank Group (WBG) in particular. → Read More
The promise and pitfalls of partnerships in tackling extreme poverty around the world
Highlighting key points from the launch of the OECD’s 2015 Development Cooperation Report, Homi Kharas discusses what makes an effective partnership to improve global development outcomes. → Read More