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wber-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a development-economics question fits The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) — and how to frame it so both halves of the WBER bar (credible empirics AND policy relevance) are visible. Locks the question and outlet; it does not run the analysis or write the prose.
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# Topic Selection (wber-topic-selection)
## When to trigger
- You have a developing-country result but are unsure it is "general" enough for WBER
- The work could plausibly go to JDE, World Development, the Research Observer, or WBER and the outlet is undecided
- The paper reads like a single-program project report rather than evidence on a mechanism
- A reviewer or coauthor says "interesting, but is this a *World Bank* paper?"
- You are weighing a full-length article vs. a WBER short-format policy note
## The WBER two-part bar
WBER's stated mission is to publish innovative theoretical and empirical research that **identifies, analyzes, measures, and evaluates** the macro- and micro-economic forces that promote or impede **economic development**. The selection test is a logical AND, not an OR:
