The World Bank’s World Development Report, published annually since 1978, is an invaluable guide to the economic, social, and environmental state of the world today. Each report provides in-depth analysis and policy recommendations on a specific and important aspect of development—from agriculture, the role of the state, transition economies, and labor to infrastructure, health, the environment, and poverty.
With this workshop, Columbia SIPA’s Center on Global Economic Governance, the World Bank WDR Team, and Cornell University will convene the Report authors, alongside Columbia and Cornell faculty, for a discussion of the World Development Report 2018: Education. The Report will offer guidance on how to integrate education, learning, and skills with the drive to meet broader development challenges. The Report will argue that to tackle the learning crisis, countries have to start acting as if learning really matters to them.
This report engages the World Bank’s Education Global Practice and draws on the role of education as an instrument to reduce poverty and improve health, gender equality, peace, and stability.
Review the concept note to learn more: WDR 2018 Concept Note.
World Development Report (WDR) team:
Deon Filmer, Co-Director WDR 2018 & Lead Economist, Research Group, World Bank
Halsey Rogers, Co-Director WDR 2018 & Lead Economist, Education Global Practice, World Bank
Magdalena Bendini, Economist, World Bank
Tara Béteille, Economist, World Bank, Office of the Chief Economist, South Asia Region, World Bank
David Evans, Lead Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank
Shwetlena Sabarwal, Economist, Education Global Practice, World Bank
Alexandria Valerio, Lead Economist, Education, World Bank
Workshop participants:
Kaushik Basu, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, World Bank and Professor of Economics and C Marks Professor, Cornell University
Alex Eble, Assistant Professor of Economics and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
Eli Friedman, Assistant Professor, Cornell University
Ravi Kanbur, T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor of Economics, Cornell University
Henry M. Levin, William H Kilpatrick Professor of Economics and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
Jordan Matsudaira, Assistant Professor, Cornell University
Francisco Rivera-Batiz, Professor Emeritus of Economics and Education, Teachers College, and Professor of International and Public Affairs (affiliate), Columbia University
David Sahn, International Professor of Economics, Cornell University
Jan Svejnar, James T. Shotwell Professor of Global Political Economy and Director of the Center on global Economic Governance, Columbia SIPA
Miguel Urquiola, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Columbia University
