This year’s World Development Report (WDR) was prepared by a team led by directors Robert
Cull, Vivien Foster, and Dean Jolliffe. Malarvizhi Veerappan served as report manager and as
a member of the Report’s leadership. The core team was composed of Jaffar Al-Rikabi, Adele
Moukheibir Barzelay, Miriam Bruhn, Rong Chen, Niccolò Comini, Samuel Paul Fraiberger,
Craig Hammer, Talip Kilic, Jan Loeprick, Daniel G. Mahler, Michael Minges, Martin Molinuevo,
Nancy Morrison, David Newhouse, Sara Nyman, Vincent Francis Ricciardi III, David Satola,
Dorothe Singer, Philip Wollburg, and Bilal Zia, together with research analysts Kenneth Zaul
Moreno Sermeno, Nikkie Pacheco, and Elizabeth Salazar. Selome Missael Paulos provided the
team with administrative support.