Acknowledgments Doing Business would not be possible without the expertise and generous input of a network of more than 10,200 local partners, including legal experts, business consultants, accountants, freight forwarders, government officials and other professionals routinely administering or advising on the relevant legal and regulatory requirements in the 189 economies covered. Contact details for local partners are available on the Doing Business website at http://www.doingbusiness.org.
The online service of the Doing Business database is managed by Andres Baquero Franco, Varun Doiphode, Kunal Patel, Mohan Pathapati, Vinod Thottikkatu and Hashim Zia under the direction of Preeti Endlaw. The Doing Business 2014 outreach strategy is executed by a communications team led by Nadine Ghannam and including Hyun Kyong Lee and Sushmitha Malini Narsiah, with support from Nicole Frost and World Bank Group communications colleagues around the world.
Data collection and analysis for Doing Business 2014 were conducted through the Global Indicators and Analysis Department under the general direction of Augusto Lopez-Claros. The project was managed by Rita Ramalho with the support of Carolin Geginat, Adrian Gonzalez, Jean Michel Lobet and Hulya Ulku. Other team members included Jean Arlet, Iana Ashchian, Pablo Baquero, Iryna Bilotserkivska, Erica Bosio, Nadine Abi Chakra, Edgar Chavez Sanchez, Rong Chen, Maya Choueiri, Catrice Christ, Santiago Croci Downes, Fernando Dancausa Diaz, Baria Nabil Daye, Marie Lily Delion, Laura Diniz, Raian Divanbeigi, Margherita Fabbri, Caroline Frontigny, Paula García Serna, Dorina Georgieva, Anushavan Hambardzumyan, Michelle-Christine Hanf, Joyce Ibrahim, Nan Jiang, Hervé Kaddoura, Olena Koltko, Magdalini Konidari, Dmitri Lohvinski, Fernanda Maretto de Barros, Betty Mensah, Frédéric Meunier, Robert Murillo, Joanna Nasr, Marie-Jeanne Ndiaye, Nadia Novik, Mikiko Imai Ollison, Jiawen Pan, Nina Paustian, Parvina Rakhimova, Morgann Courtney Ross, Valentina Saltane, Momodou Salifu Sey, Anastasia Shegay, Jayashree Srinivasan, Moussa Traoré, Julien Vilquin, Matthew Williger and Yasmin Zand. The team would especially like to acknowledge the comments and support of Melissa Johns.
The team is grateful for valuable comments provided by colleagues across the World Bank Group and for the guidance of World Bank Group Executive Directors. It would especially like to acknowledge the comments and guidance of Aart C. Kraay. Comments were also received from Zoubida Allaoua, Alejandro Alvarez de la Campa, Pedro Antmann, Shahin Bagirov, Carol Balkaran, Arup Banerjee, Karim Ouled Belayachi, Najy Benhassine, Alexander Berg, Charmaine Chua, Laurent Corthay, Pasquale di Benedetta, Makhtar Diop, Sylvie Dossou, Raja Roslan Effendy, Harold Epineuse, Alejandro Espinosa-Wang, Jorge Familiar Calderon, Enrique Fanta, Robert L. Floyd, Viven Foster, Samuel Freije-Rodriguez, William John Gain, Raluca Golumbeanu, Heike Gramckow, Mona Haddad, Caroline Heider, Thea Hilhorst, Giuseppe Iarossi, Moses Misach Kajubi, Clayton Bryant Kerswell, Jeni Klugman, Jonathan Koh Tat Tsen, Arvo Kuddo, Anjali Kumar, Grace Lee, Philippe Le Houérou, Anne-Marie Leroy, Larisa Leshchenko, Andres Martinez, Gerard McLinden, Maria Cristina Mejia, Philippe de Meneval, Trimor Mici, Andrei Mikhnev, Fredesvinda Fatima Montes, Connel Mottley, Thomas Moullier, Brian G. Mtonya, Cyril Muller, Cecile Niang, Alban Pruthi, Sexavet Qarayev, Bikki Randhawa, David Robalino, Jaime