About the World Development Report
The World Development Report (WDR) has been produced on an annual basis since 1978 and is the World Bank’s major analytical publication. The topic of each report is selected by the World Bank’s President three years in advance of the book’s publication. As soon as the topic is announced, four major steps occur:
- Research is initiated within the World Bank’s Development Economics Group (DEC), a “Network” (a group of departments that research and work on several related sectors of development), or other appropriate units to strengthen links between the World Bank’s ongoing research program and the WDR.
- A director is announced, and the WDR team is recruited. A new team is established for each WDR. The team, which falls under the guidance of the World Bank’s chief economist, is led by a senior staff member and comprises staff and consultants from the Networks, Regional departments, World Bank Institute (WBI), and DEC’s Research Group. The Report is developed in close consultation with bilateral and multilateral development partners, the private sector, and civil society organizations.
- An internal partner group is identified for each WDR. Although the institutional home is the DEC group, a partner group is identified early (such as a thematic Network, WBI, or a Regional department) so that the knowledge created is further developed and actively applied after publication of the Report.
- A timetable is established for research, writing, review, consultations, presentation to the Board of Directors, editorial and production work, publication, and dissemination.
FORTHCOMING: World Development Report 2014: Managing Risk for Development
Facing risk and uncertainty is one of the most difficult issues that households, communities, and countries have to deal with. Global financial crises, natural disasters, civil conflict, infectious diseases, and volatile food prices are only a few of the many events that can engender the generalized sense of insecurity that seems to be so prevalent nowadays. A host of questions arise:
These are the issues the World Development Report 2014: Managing Risk for Development will address. The Report will evaluate and organize the available knowledge in order to help the development community better understand why risk and uncertainty matter to people—especially the poor—what their main causes and sources are, and what can be done by governments, communities, and households to manage them.
The report is scheduled to be published in early fall 2013.
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