This year's Word Development Report (WDR), the twenty-eighth, looks at the role of equity in the development process. It defines equity in terms of two basic principles. The first is equal opportunities: that a person's chances in life should be determined by his or her talents and efforts,...

Introduction / Bourguignon, Bussolo, Pereira da Silva -- Chap. 1: Winners and losers from trade reform in Morocco / Lokshin and Ravallion -- Chap. 2: A micro-macro assessment of the poverty impacts of the Doha and FTAA agenda for Latin America / Bussolo, Lay, van der Mensbrugghe -- Chap. 3:...