Year | Report | Lead Author |
| 2009 | Reshaping Economic Geography | Indermit Gill |
2008 | Agriculture for Development | Alain de Janvry Derek Byerlee |
2007 | Development and the Next Generation | Emmanuel Y. Jimenez |
2006 | Equity and Development | Francisco Ferreira & Michael Walton |
2005 | A Better Investment Climate for Everyone | Warrick Smith |
2004 | Making Services Work for Poor People | Shanta Devarajan & Ritva Reinikka |
2003 | Sustainable Development in a Dynamic World | Zmarak Shalizi |
2002 | Building Institutions for Markets | Roumeen Islam |
2000/2001 | Attacking Poverty | Ravi Kanbur & Nora Lustig |
1999/2000 | Entering the Twentieth Century | Shahid Yusuf |
1998/1999 | Knowledge for Development | Carl Dahlman |
1997 | The State in a Changing World | Ajay Chhibber |
1996 | From Plan to Market | Alan Gelb |
1995 | Workers in an Integrating World | Michael Walton |
1994 | Infrastructure for Development | Gregory Ingram |
1993 | Investing in Health | Dean T. Jamison |
1992 | Development and the Environment | Andrew Steer |
1991 | The Challenge of Development | Vinod Thomas |
1990 | Poverty | Lyn Squire |
1989 | Financial Systems and Development | Millard F. Long |
1988 | Public Finance in Development | Johannes F. Linn |
1987 | Industrialization and Foreign Trade | Sarath Rajapatirana |
1986 | Trade and Pricing Policies in World Agriculture | Anandarup Ray |
1985 | International Capital and Economic Development | Francis X. Colaço |
1984 | Population Change and Development | Nancy Birdsall |
1983 | Management in Development | Pierre Landell-Mills |
1982 | Agriculture and Economic Development | David Turnham |
1981 | National and International Adjustment | Robert Cassen |
1980 | Poverty and Human Development | Paul Isenman |
1979 | Structural Change and Development Policy | Shankar Acharya |
1978 | Prospects for Growth and Alleviation of Poverty | D. C. Rao |