xiv • Acknowledgments
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in chapter 3; Chris Parsons and Frédéric Docquier for their help with datasets in chapter 3; and Jacqueline Irving and Seifu Mehari for chapter 4. Kaouther Abderrahim, Manka Angwafo, Sohini Chatterjee, Aymen Dhib, Farai Jena, Onitola Oni, Carly Petracco, Ani Silwal, and Zhimei Xu provided research assistance. Neil Ruiz provided excellent assistance in project coordination throughout. David McKenzie, Mustapha K. Nabli, and David Olusanya Ajakaiye served as peer reviewers during the project’s advisory committee meeting. Shanta Devarajan, Punam Chuhan-Pole, Maureen Lewis, Benjamin Musuku, and Raju Singh served as internal peer reviewers of the consultation draft. Special thanks to Michael Clemens, Uri Dadush, Sarah Lahmani, Thomas Melonio, Leonce Ndikumana, and Rosemary Vargas-Lundius for serving as external referees of the consultation draft. Barfour Osei was a part of the team during the initial stages of the project and provided guidance and support. For their generous comments and support, special thanks go to Martin Alsop, Jeff DaytonJohnson, Thomas Debass, Pedro de Lima, Rick Erlebach, Tim Green, Robert Holzman, Bela Hovy, Arun Kashyap, Sarah Lahmani, Robert E. B. Lucas, Leonce Ndikumana, Kerry Nelson, David Olusanya Ajakaiye, and Rosemary Vargas-Lundius. The report draws on primary surveys of migrants’ households in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda, managed by Sonia Plaza and with administrative aspects coordinated by Neil G. Ruiz. Advice on survey methodology came from Richard Adams Jr., Richard Bilsborrow, Juan Muñoz, and Mario Navarrete, and is gratefully acknowledged. The surveys were conducted by the Université de Ouagadougou (for Burkina Faso), the Consortium pour la Recheche Economique et Social (CRES) (for Senegal), the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) (for South Africa), Makerere Statistical Consults Ltd. (for Uganda), the University of Nairobi School of