WDR

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Knowledge

Analysis

Pro-business agenda drives World Bank’s report on the future of work

As the World Bank publishes a report calling for labour market deregulation, global trade unions fight back.

23 July 2018 | Guest analysis

Knowledge

News

Concerns over World Bank's WDR on education

CSOs raise concerns about content and consultation process of World Bank World Development Report 2018 on education.

6 April 2017

Social services

News

WDR on governance: paradigm shift or cosmetic procedure?

World Bank’s 2017 World Development Report on governance introduced the importance of politics, but its impact has been questioned.

7 April 2017

Knowledge

News

WDR 2015: Mind over matter

Behavioural economics is the basis for the World Bank's 2015 World Development Report but is criticised for ignoring the impact of power and politics.

3 February 2015

Knowledge

News

“Mind and culture” topic for next WDR

The World Bank has announced that the World Development Report 2015, due to be published in autumn 2014, will focus on Mind and culture.

3 December 2013

Social services

Analysis

The Doing Business review: a test of World Bank leadership

By this year's October annual meetings, we will know what the World Bank board has decided on what happens next to that institution's controversial and most popular publication, the Doing Business report.

24 June 2013 | At Issue

Knowledge

News

Bank announces 2014 WDR topic: risk management

In December the World Bank published a concept note for its 2014 World Development Report, which will address risk management.

13 February 2013

Rights

Analysis

World Bank on jobs: a "significant departure" or "business as usual"?

The opening sentences of the 2013 World Development Report Jobs, could not be clearer: "Jobs are the cornerstone of economic and social development". Brendan Martin of UK NGO Public World examines the policy implications for developing economies, trade unions and the wider development community.

13 February 2013 | At Issue

Trade

News

World Bank on jobs: "a race to the bottom"?

Two October World Bank reports reveal a contradictory message for developing countries' labour markets.

6 December 2012

Infrastructure

Analysis

The World Bank and industrial policy: Hands off or hands on?

Former deputy secretary general of UNCTAD Carlos Fortin, of the Institute of Development Studies, examines the Bank's record on industrial policy over the last 20 years and shows that the Bank's position is more nuanced.

6 December 2012 | At Issue