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Acknowledgments Data collection and analysis for Women, Business and the Law 2016 was conducted by a team led by Sarah Iqbal (Program Coordinator, Women, Business and the Law), under the general direction of Augusto López-Claros (Director, Global Indicators Group, Development Economics) and Melissa Johns (Adviser, Global Indicators Group, Development Economics). Overall guidance for the preparation of the report was provided by Kaushik Basu, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank. Members of the core research team included Gharam Alkastalani Dexter, Nayda Almodóvar-Reteguis, Nisha Nicole Arekapudi, Yasmin Bin Humam, Julia Constanze Braunmiller, Maia Estelle D’Anna, Morgane Lucia Gruet, Tazeen Hasan, Carolina Szasz Jatene, Svetlana Matt, Adeola Bunmi Olagunju, Isabel Santagostino Recavarren, Katrin Anna Schulz, Alena Sakhonchik and Paula Tavares. Assisting with data collection were Ghufran Ayidh Alqahtani, Yuriy Valentinovich Avramov, Martha Branigan-Sutton, Marina Elefante, Dorina Peteva Georgieva, Adrian Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Isabella Maria Grisanti Vollbracht, Joyce Antone Ibrahim, Parviz Jabarov, Michele Jarrouj, Chantal Khalil, Magdalini Konidari, Gloria Daniele Diba Etonde Kuoh, Heather Elaine McAuliffe, Frederic Meunier, Marianna Buchalla Pacca, David Mark Sebstead, Christian De la Medina Soto and Marilyne Florence Youbi. Mohammad Amin and Asif Islam assisted in the data analysis. The team is grateful for valuable comments provided by colleagues in the World Bank Group (both on the draft report and on the surveys used for data collection) and outside the World Bank Group (on the surveys used for data collection). The team would especially like to acknowledge the comments and support of Indermit Gill. Comments were also received from: Issam A. Abousleiman, Gavin Adlington, Bina Agarwal, Ahmad Ahsan, Aly Salman Alibhai, Diana Arango, Clarissa Augustinus, Fareda Banda, Elena Bardasi, Amjad Bashir, Nina Bhatt, Christina Biebesheimer, Moussa Blimpo, Genevieve Boyreau, Laura Chioda, Rea Chiongson, Maitreyi Das, Benedicte de la Briere, Ana Paula de la O Campos, Klaus Deininger, Gustavo Demarco, Cheryl Doss, Beatrice Duncan, John Eekelaar, Hebatalla Elgazarr, Julianna Flanagan, Maria Elena Garcia Mora, Jimena Garrote, Gisela Geisler, Renee Giovarelli, Anne Goldstein, Caren Grown, Lucia Hanmer, Birgit Hansl, Yasmeen Hassan, Thea Hilhorst, Masako Hiraga, Yumeka Hirano, Mala Htun, Sriyani Hulugalle, Elena Ianchovichina, Soumya Kapoor, Jane Katz, Kathrine Kelm, Karin Erika Kemper, Naomi Kenney, Irina L. Kichigina, Talip Kilic, Antonia Kirkland, Daniel Kirkwood, Henriette Kolb,
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Aphichoke Kotikula, Begona Lasagabaster, Daniel Lederman, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Priyani Malik, Alexandre Marc, Teresa Marchiori, Daniela Marotta, Jennifer McCleary-Sills, Saiyed Shabih Ali Mohib, Komal Mohindra, Ferenc Molnar, Joao Montalvao, Matthew Morton, Stella Mukasa, Miriam Muller, Ana Maria Munoz Boudet, Sarah Nedolast, Celia Ortega, Alice R. Ouedraogo, Elizaveta Perova, Patti Petesch, Paul Pettitore, Keomanivone Phimmahasay, Aminur Rahman, Rita Ramalho, Vijayendra Rao, Lowie Rosales-Kawasaki, Helene Carlsson Rex, Mehnaz Safavian, Iffath Sharif, Joana Silva, Nistha Sinha, Sylvia Solf, Jennifer Solotaroff, Steffi Stallmeister, Victoria Stanley, Rachel Vogelstein, Laurel Weldon, Alys Willman, William Wiseman and Johannes Zutt. The report was edited by Anne Grant, with design and graphics by Corporate Visions. Data visualization support was provided by Francis Gagnon of Voilà Information Design. The online Women, Business and the Law database (http://wbl.worldbank .org) is supported by Varun V. Doiphode, Andres Baquero Franco, Fengsheng Huang, Kunal Patel, Rajesh Sargunan, Vinod Vasudevan Thottikkatu and Hashim Zia. The Women, Business and the Law outreach strategy is managed by Indira Chand, supported by Hyun Kyong Lee, under the general direction of Phillip Jeremy Hay. The events strategy is coordinated by Sushmitha Narsiah Pidatala. The core research team is assisted by Rose Gachina. Support for expanding geographic coverage of the database was provided by the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID). Support for data collection and expansion was provided by the Switzerland State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO). Support for expanding coverage of the protecting women from violence indicator was provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). This report was made possible by the generous contributions of over 1,000 lawyers, judges, academics, civil society representatives and public officials in 173 economies. Contact details for local partners are available on the Women, Business and the Law website at: http://wbl.worldbank.org/contributors. The names of local partners wishing to be acknowledged individually are listed. The global and regional contributors listed are firms or organizations that have completed multiple questionnaires in their various offices around the world.
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