The World Development Report 1983

The World Development Report 1983 Najinyanupi World Development Report, 1983, published by Oxford University Press for The World Bank, 1983; pp x + 214. (Available in India from Oxford University Press; price Rs 30.) THE World Development Report (WDR) for 1983 is the six in an annual series assessing development issues". These reports have acquired considerable prestige because, while there may he other similar reports covering individual nations or groups of nations such as the OECD, there is no other report which is as comprehensive in its coverage of both developing and developed nations as this report of the World Bank. The Bank has unique access to data and a rare opportunity to obtain an insight into economies at least of the developing countries. It also has at its disposal outstanding talent drawn from all over the world. The diversity of the backgrounds from which its experts can be drawn the developing countries, the developed countries and the open market