Acknowledgments This Atlas of Global Development is a production of the World Bank’s Development Economics Data Group in collaboration with the Office of the Publisher. The text and data were prepared by the Development Economics Data Group of the World Bank under the management of Shaida Badiee. The team consisted of Mehdi Akhlaghi, Azita Amjadi, Uranbileg Batjargal, David Cieslikowski, Richard Fix, Masako Hiraga, Kiyomi Horiuchi, Buyant Erdene Khaltarkhuu, Nino Kostava, Soong Sup Lee, Ibrahim Levent, Raymond Muhula, Kyoko Okamato, Sulekha Patel, Beatriz Prieto-Oramas, William Prince, Changqing Sun, Eric Swanson, and K. M. Vijayalakshmi. Sebastien Dessus, Neil Fantom, Kirk Hamilton, Santiago Herrera, Jeff Lecksell, Nadia Fernanda Piffaretti, and Giovanni Ruta made valuable contributions. Stephen McGroarty, Santiago Pombo, and Valentina Kalk Alacevich from the World Bank’s Office of the Publisher managed the publication and dissemination of the book. The Publishing, Design, Editorial, Creative Services, and Database teams at Collins Geo, HarperCollins Publishers, provided overall design direction, editorial control, mapping, and typesetting.
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