*  *  *  Ladies and gentlemen The British rock band The Alan Parsons Project charted in 1978 with a single entitled “What goes up ...”, the first two lines of which read as follows: “What goes up, must come down / What must rise, must fall”.
Thus, the World Development Report (WDR) 2013 on jobs recently published and its companion paper “Creating jobs for development: policy directions from the 2013 World Development Report on Jobs” are timely in addressing one of the most pressing problems for many policy makers around the world.