A Handbook on the Future of Economic Policy in the Developing World

The Day After Tomorrow, A Handbook on the Future of Economic Policy in the Developing World – Otaviano Canuto and Marcelo Giugale, Editors

  • “Development economists are paid to look into the future. They ask not not only how things work today, but also how a new policy, program, or project would make them work tomorrow. They view the world and history as a learning process—past and present are just inputs into thinking about what’s coming. It is that appetite for a vision of the future that led us to invite some 40 development economists, most of them from the World Bank’s Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network—an epicenter of the profession—to tell us what they see on the horizon of their technical disciplines and of their geographic areas of specialization. We did not want their forecasts—those could quickly become outdated, or prove embarrassingly wrong. Rather, we asked them to visualize how key economic policy issues will be dealt with over the next three, four, or five years and which countries will be dealing with what issues.”
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