By Wempi Saputra, Erivaldo Alfredo Gomes and Abdoul Salam BelloWASHINGTON, DC — The Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund, which kicked off on April 10 in Washington, provide an opportunity to reflect on the Bank’s ongoing evolution.

By Jorge G. Castañeda and Carlos OminamiNEW YORK — Recent years have not been good ones for democracy in Latin America.

By Raghuram G. Rajan and Viral V. Acharya CHICAGO — The recent bank collapses in the United States seem to have an obvious cause.

By Beniamino Callegari and Per Espen StoknesOSLO — An easy way to start a long, heated debate is to mention global population.

By Julia Kaufman and Jane Kabubo-MariaraWASHINGTON, DC/NAIROBI — “Localisation” has become a buzzword in international development circles, partly thanks to a push by the United States to shift more aid funding to local actors.

By Quentin Grafton, Joyeeta Gupta and Aromar Revi NEW YORK CITY — The world is becoming accustomed to the drip-drip of catastrophic headlines following each new climate-driven disaster.

By Robin Willoughby and Nico MuziLONDON — Disruption is coming to the agriculture sector.

By Daron Acemoglu and Simon JohnsonBOSTON — Meta (Facebook), Alphabet (Google), Microsoft, Twitter and a few other tech companies have come to dominate what we see and hear on the internet, shaping hundreds of millions of people’s perceptions of the world.

By Mariana Mazzucato, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Johan Rockström, and Tharman ShanmugaratnamLONDON — The world’s water crisis can no longer be ignored.