Database management William Prince coordinated management of the World Development Indicators database, with assistance from Liu Cui and Shelley Fu in the Data Administration and Quality Team. Operation of the database management system was made possible by Ramgopal Erabelly in the Data and Information Systems Team under the leadership of Reza Farivari. Design, production, and editing Azita Amjadi and Alison Kwong coordinated all stages of production with Communications Development Incorporated, which provided overall design direction, editing, and layout, led by Meta de Coquereaumont, 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. Administrative assistance, office technology, and systems development support Elysee Kiti provided administrative assistance. Jean-Pierre Djomalieu, Gytis Kanchas, and Nacer Megherbi provided information technology support. Ugendran Machakkalai, Shanmugam Natarajan, Atsushi Shimo, and Malarvizhi Veerappan provided software support on the Development Data Platform application. Publishing and dissemination The Office of the Publisher, under the direction of Carlos Rossel, provided assistance throughout the production process. Denise Bergeron, Stephen McGroarty, Nora Ridolfi, and Janice Tuten coordinated printing, marketing, and distribution. Merrell TuckPrimdahl of the Development Economics Vice President’s Office managed the communications strategy.
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World Development Indicators mobile applications Software preparation and testing were managed by Shelley Fu with assistance from Prashant Chaudhari, Ying Chi, Liu Cui, Ghislaine Delaine, Neil Fantom, Ramgopal Erabelly, Federico Escaler, Buyant Erdene Khaltarkhuu, Sup Lee, Maurice Nsabimana, Parastoo Oloumi, Beatriz Prieto Oramas, William Prince, Virginia Romand, Jomo Tariku, Malarvizhi Veerappan, and Vera Wen. Systems development was undertaken in the Data and Information Systems Team led by Reza Farivari. William Prince provided data quality assurance. Online access Coordination of the presentation of the WDI online, through the Open Data website, the World Databank application, the new table browser application, and the Application Programming Interface, was provided by Neil Fantom and Soong Sup Lee. Development and maintenance of the website were managed by a team led by Azita Amjadi and including Alison Kwong, George Gongadze, Timothy Herzog, Jeffrey McCoy, and Jomo Tariku. Systems development was managed by a team led by Reza Farivari, with project management provided by Malarvizhi Veerappan. Design, programming, and testing were carried out by Ying Chi, Shelley Fu, Siddhesh Kaushik, Ugendran Machakkalai, Nacer Megherbi, Shanmugam Natarajan, Parastoo Oloumi, Manish Rathore, Ashish B. Shah, Atsushi Shimo, Maryna Taran, and Jomo Tariku. Liu Cui and William Prince coordinated production and provided data quality assurance. Multilingual translations of online applications were provided by a team led by Jim Rosenberg in the World Bank’s External Affairs department. Client feedback The team is grateful to the many people who have taken the time to provide feedback and suggestions, which have helped improve this year’s edition. Please contact us at data@worldbank.org.
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