10 positive economic outcomes for developing countries in 2025
A guest blog by Homi Kharas who is a Senior Fellow in the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution, and co-founder of World Data Lab. An economist by training, Kharas is a pioneer in the study of the global middle class. He has over four decades of experience working in or writing about international financial institutions and contributed to the shaping of the U.N.-brokered global agreement in 2015 to pursue Sustainable Development Goals in every country and region of the world. Key points From a growing global middle class to expanding trade and faster, market-driven clean energy adoption, 2025 delivered tangible progress for developing economies despite a difficult global backdrop. Inflation and food price increases are being held in check, and advances in digital public infrastructure, nutrition, and weather forecasting improved everyday resilience for hundreds of millions of people. These gains show that, even amid crisis, targeted investments and multil...
