UNDP’s new flagship report, Development at Risk: Protecting Gains and Unleashing Opportunities Amid Crisis is anchored in a simple but urgent proposition: complex, interconnected risks are now a defining feature of our era, and development pathways that fail to account for these risks are unlikely to succeed. While the pace and pattern of development progress have diverged significantly across contexts, no country is immune to the disruptive impacts of these transitions. In fact, the engines of progress – rapid urbanization, technological innovation, economic globalization – have become, in many cases, sources of risk themselves.

The Development at Risk report benefitted from background research and contributions from external experts. Some of these independent contributions are available here and can be downloaded by clicking on the button on the left.