ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Colleagues at the European Commission generously gave their support and suggestions. The team would especially like to thank Marco Buti, Jean Claude Thébault, Michel Servoz, Vasco Cal, Philippe Legrain, and Margaritis Schinas. Reiner Martin and many colleagues at the European Central Bank’s Convergence and Structural Analysis Section provided useful feedback. Eurostat staff overseeing the Structural Business Statistics promptly and patiently responded to the team’s requests for information. Charles Roxburgh and Jan Mischke of McKinsey Global Institute provided advice at an early stage of the work and useful comments on a draft of the report. The team gratefully acknowledges their help. Many people at the World Bank have helped. Peter Harrold, Dirk Reinermann, Sebastian Stolorz, Mart Kivine, Thomas Laursen, Satu Kahkonen, Sophie Sirtaine, Lucio Vinhas de Souza, Lilia Burunciuc, Xavier Devictor, Kseniya Lvovsky, Markus Repnik, and Zeljko Bogetic have helped make the report better and engage policymakers more effectively. Bernard Hoekman, William Maloney, Aaditya Mattoo, Brian Pinto, and Michał Rutkowski provided constructive criticism and encouragement. Others who have helped in various ways include Theodore Ahlers, Pedro Alba, Richard Baldwin, Bruno Bonansea, Carlos Braga, Otaviano Canuto, Rinku Chandra, Gerardo Corochano, Uwe Deichmann, Michael Emerson, Marianne Fay, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Chorching Goh, Daniel Gros, Stephane Guimbert, Borko Handjiski, Bridget Harrison-Dowd, Jesko Hentschel, Stella Ilieva, Roumeen Islam, Gregory Jedrzejczak, Elena Karaban, Katarina Mathernova, Shigeo Katsu, Andrew Kircher, Michael Klein, Dorota Kowalska, Jerzy Kwieci nski, ´ Jeffrey Lecksell, Laszlo Lovei, Marco Mantovanelli, Martin Melecky, Marialisa Motta, Mamta Murthi, Evgenij Nadjov, Julia Nielsen, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, John Pollner, Jean Louis Racine, Ana Revenga, Alexander Rowland, Pablo Saavedra, Luis Servén, Kristyn Schrader, Maria Shkaratan, Emily Sinnott, Sándor Sipos, Emilia Skrok, Mark Thomas, Michael Toman, Mehrnaz Teymourian, Volker Treichel, Marina Wes, and Sally Zeijlon. Finally, the team is grateful to members of the Regional Management Team of the Europe and Central Asia Region for their feedback on earlier drafts of this report. The team thanks others who have helped in preparing and writing the report and wishes to apologize to anyone inadvertently overlooked in these acknowledgments.
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