Acknowledgments
This book was edited by Dhushyanth Raju and Jasmine Rajbhandary. Chapter authors include Scott Abrahams, Laurent Loic Yves Bossavie, Anastasiya Denisova, and Jyoti Maya Pandey. Sailesh Tiwari served as a member of the team. Pradeep Singh provided research assistance in the early stages of the work, and Rajshree Karki provided administrative support. The team would like to thank the following World Bank Group colleagues: Pablo Gottret, Takuya Kamata, Stefano Paternostro, and Martin Rama, who provided guidance and support from management; Johannes Koettl and David Newhouse, who served as peer reviewers at the concept and decision review stages for the book; and Taneem Ahad, Mohan Prasad Aryal, Roshan Bajracharya, Manav Bhattarai, Purna Chhetri, Damir Cosic, Sangeeta Goyal, Markus Kitzmuller, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Yasuhiko Matsuda, Elliot Mghenyi, Bigyan Pradhan, Maya Sherpa, Bandita Sijapati, Jayakrishna Upadhya, and Thomas Walker, who provided input, feedback, and support at various points during the book’s preparation. The team would like to express its appreciation to external stakeholders who provided feedback and assistance at different points during the book preparation process. From the government of Nepal (in alphabetical order): Jayanath Acharya, Baikuntha Aryal, Dilli Bastola, Surya Bhandari, Rama Bhattarai, Govinda Mani Bhurtel, Lok Nath Bhusal, Prasad Gautam, Tulasi Prasad Gautam Bhojraj Kafle, Raghuraj Kafle, Badri Karki, Laxman Prasad Mainali, Umesh Kumar Mishra, Yuga Raj Pandey, Nabaraj Paudel, Khagaraj Paudyal, Shivaram Pokharel, Bhumishwor Pokhrel, Jiwan Kumar Rai, and Gyan Raj Subedi. From the government of the Republic of Korea: Ki-Wook Kim. From academic, civil society, international development, nongovernmental, and private-sector organizations: Meena Acharya, Bal Gopal Baidya, Hridaya Ratna Bajracharya, Sunila Baniya, Cecilia Banks, Sukriti Bashyal, Punya Bhandari, Usha Bhandari, Rita Bhandary, Anil Chaudhary, Rajju Malla Dhakal, Ram Chandra Dhakal, Anna Engblom, Hiramani Ghimire, Sita Ghimire, Ganesh Gurung, Manju Gurung, Pravina Gurung, Meenu Hada, Avinash Karna, Shaleen Khanal, Brabim Kumar, Andrew J. Nelson, Baburam Pant, Bishnu Dev Pant, Meena Poudel, Uddhav Raj Poudyal, Bina Pradhan, Kaajal Pradhan, Priti Prajapati, Vidhan Rana,
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