Acknowledgments This book was prepared by a team led by William Prince under the management of Neil Fantom and comprising Azita Amjadi, Maja Bresslauer, Liu Cui, Federico Escaler, Mahyar Eshragh-Tabary, Juan Feng, Masako Hiraga, Wendy Ven-dee Huang, Bala Bhaskar Naidu Kalimili, Haruna Kashiwase, Buyant Erdene Khaltarkhuu, Tariq Khokar, Elysee Kiti, Ibrahim Levent, Hiroko Maeda, Maurice Nsabimana, Leila Rafei, Evis Rucaj, Umar Serajuddin, Rubena Sukaj, Emi Suzuki, Jomo Tariku, and Rasiel Victor Vellos, working closely with other teams in the Development Economics Vice Presidency’s Development Data Group. World Development Indicators electronic products were prepared by a team led by Soong Sup Lee and comprising Ying Chi, Jean-Pierre Djomalieu, Ramgopal Erabelly, Shelley Fu, Omar Hadi, Gytis Kanchas, Siddhesh Kaushik, Ugendran Machakkalai, Nacer Megherbi, Shanmugam Natarajan, Parastoo Oloumi, Manish Rathore, Ashish Shah, Atsushi Shimo, and Malarvizhi Veerappan. All work was carried out under the direction of Haishan Fu. Valuable advice was provided by Poonam Gupta, Zia M. Qureshi, and David Rosenblatt.
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The choice of indicators and text content was shaped through close consultation with and substantial contributions from staff in the World Bank’s four thematic networks—Sustainable Development, Human Development, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, and Financial and Private Sector Development—and staff of the International Finance Corporation and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency. Most important, the team received substantial help, guidance, and data from external partners. For individual acknowledgments of contributions to the book’s content, see Credits. For a listing of our key partners, see Partners. Communications Development Incorporated provided overall design direction, editing, and layout, led by Jack Harlow, Bruce Ross-Larson, and Christopher Trott. Elaine Wilson created the cover and graphics and typeset the book. Peter Grundy, of Peter Grundy Art & Design, and Diane Broadley, of Broadley Design, designed the report. Staff from The World Bank’s Publishing and Knowledge Division oversaw printing and dissemination of the book.