In preparation for the WDR, an International Policy Workshop was held in Berlin, Germany, during December 12–13, 2012. The workshop brought together about 40 academics, civil society representatives, policymakers and development practitioners from the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia to exchange ideas and debate core issues to be addressed in the WDR and provide the authors with inputs from leading experts from across the international research community. The workshop was organized and hosted by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), and the BMZ's convening authority, the Development Policy Forum of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), in collaboration with the World Bank’s WDR 2014 Team.

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PRESENTATIONS: (pdf)

Introduction:

• WDR 2014 Managing Risk for Development by Norman Loayza

Session I: Managing Risk for Development:

• Managing Systemic Risk for Agro-pastoral Development by Michael R Carter
• Managing Risk for Development Do we understand the drivers of risk? by Prof. Dr. Joern Birkmann
• Risk, Basis Risk and Complementarities by Stefan Dercon

Keynote

• Risk and Development by Stefan Dercon

Session II: Sound Financial Inclusion, Sustainable Government Programs and Macro-Financial Stability

• Benefits and Risks from Financial Liberalisation by Marcel Fratzscher
• Financial Inclusion and Risk Management by Craig Churchill
• Sound Financial Inclusion, Sustainable Government Programs and Macro-Financial Stability by Franklin Allen

Session III: Enterprise Responses to Risk and Uncertainty

• Public Policies and Risk Taking by Innovative Firms: The Reallocation-Innovation-Productivity Nexus by Giuseppe Nicoletti
• Africa Re Enterprise Responses to Risk and Uncertainty by Corneille Karekezi
• Determinants of Job Growth, Job Quality, and Their Mechanisms: The Role of Business Environment by L. Colin Xu

Session IV: How Well Do Households and Communities Manage Risk, Cope with Shocks, and Build Resilience?

• Information and Understanding Failures: Lessons from a Microinsurance Health Program in India by Jean-Philippe Platteau
• Households and Communities—Risks, Shocks and Resilience by Andrew Norton
• Managing Risks for Households: Changing the Balance of Events by Anirudh Krishna

Session V: The Role for the Global Community

• A 'Safe Operating Space' for the Global Community? by Sarah Cornell
• The Role of the Global Community—Creating Resilience to Global Risks by Linda Freiner
• Addressing Climate Risk: Local needs —National Gaps— Global responses by Koko Warner
• The Role of the Global Community by Prashant

Session IV: Looking Forward: Some Key Takeaways

• Managing Risk for Development: A Korean Perspective by Oh-Seok Hyun