On last Monday, the World Bank launched the new World Development Report (WDR) focusing on conflict, security and development in a changing world where institutional challenges and lack of comprehensive support models are yet compromising development in many countries. Importantly, the 2011 WDR…

More than 400 leaders and representatives of developing nations, multilateral and civil society organizations will gather in Bogota, Colombia tomorrow and Thursday to discuss how low and middle income countries are paving a new way in development by helping each other overcome shared challenges to growth and prosperity through the exchanges of resources, technology, and knowledge, and ways in which to move the South-South and capacity development agenda forward.

President Álvaro…