Acknowledgments This Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Economic Update is a joint product of ECA’s Office of the Chief Economist, the Social Protection, Labor and Jobs Global Practice, the Poverty Global Practice, and the Macro and Fiscal Management Global Practice. Part I was prepared by a team in the Chief Economist’s Office in collaboration with colleagues from the Social Protection, Labor and Jobs Global Practice, led by Hans Timmer, and including Supriyo De, Bingjie Hu, Iloila Lacson Tan, Georgi Panterov, Dilip Ratha, Kirsten Schuettler, William Shaw, Ekaterina Ushakova, and Li Xu. Chapter I benefitted from forecasts (presented in Part II) prepared by economists in the Macro and Fiscal Management Global Practice. Roy Sudharshan Canagarajah, David Gould, and Alexander Kremer provided valuable comments on Part I. Part II was prepared by teams from the Macro and Fiscal Management Global Practice (led by Andrew Burns, Maria De los Angeles Cuqui Gonzalez Miranda, Lalita M. Moorty, and Gallina Andronova Vincelette) and the Poverty Global Practice (led by Luis-Felipe Lopez-Calva), with inputs from the Developments Prospects Group (led by Ayhan Kose). These teams included the following staff: Sarah Nankya Babirye, Elena Bondarenko, Cesar Cancho, Marie-Anne Chambonnier, Alexandru Cojocaru, Marcel Chistruga, Pablo Facundo Cuevas, Barbara Cunha, Maria Eugenia Davalos, Agim Demukaj, Mariam Dolidze, Donato De Rosa, Bakyt Dubashov, Olga Emelyanova, Mismake D. Galatis, Elisa Gamberoni, Anastasia Golovach, Gohar Gyulumyan, Kiryl Haiduk, Marco Antonio Hernandez Ore, Sandra Hlivnjak, Paulina Ewa Holda, Stella Ilieva, Maria Gabriela Inchauste Comboni, Saida Ismailakhunova, Charl Jooste, Jonathan George Karver, Faruk Khan, Edith Kikoni, Sinem Kilic Celik, Yeon Soo Kim, Naoko Kojo, Christos Kostopoulos, Aurelien Kruse, Leszek Pawel Kasek, Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi, Sanja Madzarevic-Sujster, Mikhail Matytsin, Kristina Cathrine Mercado, Moritz Meyer, Jose Montes, Minh Cong Nguyen, Trang Van Nguyen, Catalin Pauna, Mona Prasad, Habib Nasser Rab, Alisher Rajabov, Nadir Ramazanov, Julio Revilla, Monica Robayo, Paul Andres Corral Rodas, Apurva Sanghi, Ilyas Sarsenov, William Hutchins Seitz, Lazar Sestovic, Hilda Shijaku, Bojan Shimbov, Maryna Sidarenka, Emily Sinnott, Emilia Skrok, Karlis Smits, David Andrew Stephan, Marc Stocker, Congyan Tan, Indiana Taylor, Thi Thanh Thanh Bui, Eskender Trushin, Vincent Belinga De Paul Tsoungui, Ekaterina Vostroknutova, Pinar Yasar and Bakhrom Ziyaev. Ekaterina Ushakova oversaw the layout and production of the report. Barbara Karni edited and Michael Alwan typeset it. Artem Kolesnikov, John Mackedon, and Filip Kochan provided communications and outreach support, including the dedicated webpage (http://www.worldbank.org/en/region/eca/publication/ europe-and-central-asia-economic-update).
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