Acknowledgments
This report was prepared by a team led by Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad and comprising Mehtabul Azam, Basab Dasgupta, Lire Ersado, Sarojini Hirshleifer (Consultant), Aylin Isik-Dikmelik, Johannes Koettl, Arvo Kuddo, Nadezhda Lepeshko, Isil Oral, Emily Sinnott, Owen K. Smith, and Julia Smolyar. The team benefited from contributions from Meltem Aran (Consultant), Rajna Cemerska-Krtova, Ufuk Guven, Francisco Haimovich (Inter-American Development Bank), Oleksiy Ivaschenko, Laurie Joshua (Consultant), Sachiko Kataoka, Igor Kheyfets, Andrei R. Markov, Ambar Narayan, Daniel Owen, Katerina Petrina, Cristobal Ridao-Cano, Jan J. Rutkowski, Carolina Sanchez-Paramo, Pia Helene Schneider, Anita M. Schwarz, Ivan Shulga, Lars M. Sondergaard, Victoria Strokova, Ramya Sundaram, Emil Daniel Tesliuc, and Carolyn Turk. The work was conducted under the general guidance of Jesko Hentschel and Indermit Gill. Excellent advice was received from Tamar Manuelyan Atinc, Arup Banerji, Gordon Betcherman (University of Ottawa), Charles Griffin, Kathy A. Lindert, Mamta Murthi, Truman Packard, M. Willem van Eeghen, and Abdo Yazbeck.
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