The Annual world Bank on Development Economics (ABCDE) brings together the world's leading scholars and development practitioners for a lively debate on state-of-the-art thinking in development policy and the implications for the global economy. The eleventh converence dealt with four difficult topics in development: economic architecture, with Dani Rodrik and Andres Velasco, Joseph E. Stiglitz, and Amar Bhattacharya, Erick Bergolf and Ernst Ludwig von Thadden, and Ann M. Florini; social issues, with Francois Bourguignon, Glenn C. Loury, Abhijit V Banerjee, and Ravi Kanbur and Nora Lustig; and the economics of transition, with Charles Wyplosz, Simon Commander, Mark Dutz, and Nicholas Stern, Yingyi Qian, and Anders Aslund, This volume also includes insight from Kenneth J. Arrow, Lawrence H. Summers, and Joseph E. Stiglitz. (text cited fom back cover)