Acknowledgments

This report was prepared under the guidance of Susan Lund, Vice President of Economics at IFC, and Anabel Gonzalez, Deputy Director-General at the WTO. Marc Auboin (WTO) and Denis Medvedev (IFC) provided leadership for the research and Eddy Bekkers (WTO), Alexei Timofti (WTO), Alexandros Ragoussis (IFC), and Susan Starnes (IFC) managed the project team. Working team members included Karlygash Dairabayeva, Leo N. Holtz, Serhii Kostohryz, Shan Shan Li, Steve Mbollo, Ibrahim Nana, Joshua Ostry, Arun Prakash, Dario de Quarti, Friedemann Roy, Yulia Vnukova, and Ariane Volk.