What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13...

Surveying the Issues: Technologies, Biology and Economics -- Biosafety in Agricultural Biotechnology: Balancing Social and Environmental Impacts -- Pest Resistance in Agriculture: An Economic Perspective -- Biotechnology for Planted Forests: An Assessment of Biological, Economic and...