At the start of each decade the World Development Report focuses on poverty reduction. The World Development Report, now in its twenty-third edition, proposes a
Global value chains (GVCs) powered the surge of international trade after 1990 and now account for almost half of all trade. This shift enabled an unprecedented
The 2011 WDR on Conflict, Security and Development underlines the devastating impact of persistent conflict on a country or region's development prospects - not
The world's demand for food is expected to double within the next 50 years, while the natural resources that sustain agriculture will become increasingly scarce
Rising densities of human settlements, migration and transport to reduce distances to market, and specialization and trade facilitated by fewer international di