Acknowledgments
This report was prepared by a team led by Alex Kremer and including Lo誰c Whitmore, Ted Alcorn, Hayat Al-Harazi, Omar Aloui, Brian Blankespoor, Heba Elgazzar, Rose-Marie Esber, Luca Etter, Fatou Fall, Hassene Kassar, Hiromichi Katayama, Stephen Kennedy, Mourad Khaladi, Stephen King, Anat Lewin, Andrea Liverani, Abdoul Mijiyawa, Claudio Montenegro, Siddig Muneer, Charbel Nahas, Ziad Nakat, Magalie Pradel, Rachidi Radji, Gudivada Rao, Joana Silva, Estelle Sommeiller, Mehmet Tohsun, Michael Wilson, Serdar Yilmaz, and Ayman Zohry. The peer reviewers were Chorching Goh, Daniel Lederman, and Marisela Montoliu Mu単oz. Many people provided advice, but the team gives special thanks to the representatives of Middle East and North African (MENA) countries at the consultations in 2008 and 2009 in Marseille, as well as Indermit Gill, Marisela Montoliu Mu単oz, Nada Eissa, and the OECD Public Governance and Territorial Development Group. Andrew Stone, Ruslan Yemtsov, and Vivian Hon provided valuable technical advice. Jeff Lecksell of the World Bank's Printing, Graphics, and Map Design Unit assisted in the formulation and finalization of the maps. The team acknowledges the support of the multi-donor Gender Action Plan.
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