First in a series of annual reports, this volume is about people and about how development enlarges their choices--access to income, long life, knowledge, polit

Every year, the World Bank’s World Development Report (WDR) features a topic of central importance to global development. The 2018 WDR—LEARNING to Realize E

Work is constantly reshaped by technological progress. New ways of production are adopted, markets expand, and societies evolve. But some changes provoke more a

Rising densities of human settlements, migration and transport to reduce distances to market, and specialization and trade facilitated by fewer international di