Cohort · October 8, 2024
The inaugural Growth Academy brought the World Development Report to practitioners.
Two weeks at UChicago and the World Bank in Washington. Twenty-eight participants, twenty-four faculty, the WDR 2024 launch.
The World Bank has released its flagship publication, the World Development Report, each year since 1978. With the publication of the 2024 report, the authors moved in a new direction: they created a transformative summer school format that brought the report's audience and its authors into the same seminar room for two weeks. The inaugural Growth Academy.
Twenty-eight policymakers from seventeen countries spent week one at the Becker Friedman Institute and week two at the World Bank Group HQ in Washington. Faculty included three Nobel laureates and the World Bank's Chief Economist. An Indonesia mini-academy followed within months. The AI for Development roundtable that seeded WDR 2026 was the chain reaction.
