The newly launched World Development Report 2015: Mind, Society and Behavior published by The World Bank argues that development policies based on new insights into how people actually think and make decisions will help governments and civil society more readily tackle such challenges as increasing productivity, breaking the cycle of poverty from one generation to the next, and acting on climate change.

The report holds new insights on how people make decisions; it provides a framework to help development practitioners and governments apply these insights to development policy.  Drawing on background papers and notes prepared by researchers* including Abigail Barr, Associate Professor and Reader in Economics, and NIBS Co-Investigator.  Abigail worked with Pieter Serneels, Andrew Zeitlin and Frederic Mugisha on community participation in Ugandan public primary school accountability.  

The full World Development Report 2015 is available online (PDF).

* Researchers acknowledged in the World Development Report (in alphabetical order); Abigail Barr, Nicolas Baumard, Timothy Besley, Thomas Bossuroy, Robert Chambers, Molly Crockett, Jonathan de Quidt, Philippe d’Iribarne, Lina Eriksson, Maitreesh Ghatak, Javier Guillot, Crystal Hall, Johannes Haushofer, Alain Henry, Pamela Jakiela, Nadav Klein, Margaret Levi, Margaret Miller, Juan Jose Miranda Montero, Ezequiel Molina, Owen Ozier, Gael Raballand, Anand Rajaram, Barry Schwartz, Pieter Serneels, Jennifer Stellar, Michael Toman, Magdalena Tsaneva, and Daniel Yoo.

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