There’s no doubt that World Bank President Jim Yong Kim is enthusiastic about his institution’s latest World Development Report, entitled “Mind, Society, and Behavior.”
However, many wonder whether an institution with an such an uneasy relationship with change and reform can truly put the report’s insights and operational tips into practice.
“For us, in my view, not to take this behavioral science literature into account as we do our work is a form of malpractice. So we simply must do it,” the World Bank chief said during a panel discussion with the report’s directors and a behavioral studies expert.