About the Editors and Authors
policy issues. During 2001–04, Mr. Verhoeven also was the IMF’s resident representative in Bangladesh. His areas of expertise include fiscal policy, the efficiency of government spending, social protection issues, the economics of pensions, and public-private partnerships. Ekaterina Vostroknutova is a Senior Economist in the East Asia and Pacific Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Unit of the World Bank. Since joining the Bank in 2003, she contributed to the World Development Report 2005: A Better Investment Climate for Everyone and to several other analytical products concerned with macroeconomic policy in developing countries. Ms. Vostroknutova spent three years in the field office in Vientiane as a country economist for the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, where she gained firsthand experience about the development of lowincome countries. Her current work focuses on regional macroeconomic issues, natural resource economics, industrial policy, and innovation. Ms. Vostroknutova holds a Ph.D. in economics from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, where she specialized in stabilization programs during economic transitions and in time-series econometrics. Deborah L. Wetzel joined the World Bank in 1986 as a consultant and joined the Young Professionals’ Program in 1993. Since then, she has held various positions, including Sector Manager posts for the Economic Policy Group and the Public Sector Group in the Europe and Central Asia Region. Her most recent assignment has been as Lead Economist and Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Sector Leader in Brazil for the Latin America and the Caribbean Region. Her country work experience includes Brazil, Ghana, Hungary, Ukraine, Vietnam, the Russian Federation, the Former Soviet Republics, and Zambia, as well as Central and Eastern Europe and Western Africa. As Director for the Governance and Public Sector Anchor, Ms. Wetzel provides leadership to the public economics and public finance work of the Bank, especially given current challenges facing governments. She also works on the reinvigoration of the public sector management practice and maintains institutional momentum on Governance and Anti-Corruption and Stolen Asset Recovery Implementation. Ms. Wetzel has a Ph.D. in economics from Oxford University in England. She has written on fiscal decentralization, public finance, governance, and institutions in transition countries.
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