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Doing Business 2015<br />
Going Beyond Efficiency<br />
Acknowledgments<br />
Data collection and analysis for Doing<br />
Business 2015 were conducted by a<br />
team led by Rita Ramalho (Manager,<br />
Doing Business) under the general direction<br />
of Augusto Lopez-Claros (Director,<br />
Global Indicators Group, Development<br />
Economics). Overall guidance for the<br />
preparation of the report was provided<br />
by Kaushik Basu, Senior Vice President<br />
and Chief Economist of the World Bank.<br />
The project was managed with the<br />
support of Adrian Gonzalez and Hulya<br />
Ulku. Other team members included<br />
Nadine Abi Chakra, Jean Arlet, Iana<br />
Ashchian, Iryna Bilotserkivska, Erica<br />
Bosio, Jiyeon Chang, Edgar Chavez,<br />
Maya Choueiri, Catrice Christ, Santiago<br />
Croci Downes, Salima Daadouche,<br />
Baria Nabil Daye, Christian De la<br />
Medina Soto, Marie Lily Delion, Laura<br />
Diniz, Caroline Frontigny, Paula García<br />
Serna, Dorina Georgieva, Anushavan<br />
Hambardzumyan, Michelle-Christine<br />
Hanf, Volha Hrytskevich, Joyce Ibrahim,<br />
Nan (Charlotte) Jiang, Hervé Kaddoura,<br />
Klaus Koch Saldarriaga, Olena Koltko,<br />
Magdalini Konidari, Roman Kononenko,<br />
Demetris Kouris, Khrystyna Kushnir,<br />
Joy Lahoud, Fernanda Maretto de<br />
Barros, Betty Mensah, Frédéric<br />
Meunier, Joanna Nasr, Marie-Jeanne<br />
Ndiaye, Nadia Novik, Jiawen Pan, María<br />
Antonia Quesada Gámez, Parvina<br />
Rakhimova, Morgann Courtney Reeves,<br />
Julie Ryan, Valentina Saltane, Tanya<br />
Maria Santillan, Ana Maria Santillana<br />
Farakos, Melissa Scanlan, Ella<br />
Shagabutdinova, Jayashree Srinivasan,<br />
Brandon Thompson, Julien Vilquin,<br />
Matthew Williger, Marilyne Youbi, Inés<br />
Zabalbeitia Múgica and Yasmin Zand.<br />
Garam Al Kastalani-Dexter, Clemente<br />
Avila Para, Mario Lucio Carvalho<br />
Nascimento, Rong Chen, Sarah Fakhry,<br />
Nadine Ghobrial, Hernando Grueso<br />
Hurtado, Papa Gyan-Baffour, Sameh<br />
Hassan, Maisha Hyman, Wasiq Ismail,<br />
Maksym Markevych, Yuliya Neyman,<br />
Nicole Frances Ntungire, Marilyn Ryan,<br />
Katrin Schulz, Paula Tavares, Augusto<br />
Uribe Bello, Anna Xue Gu and Sonia<br />
Zahkarenko assisted in the months<br />
before publication. The team would<br />
especially like to acknowledge the<br />
comments and support of Indermit Gill<br />
and Melissa Johns.<br />
The online service of the Doing Business<br />
database is managed by Andres<br />
Baquero Franco, Varun Doiphode, Arun<br />
Chakravarthi Nageswaran, Kunal Patel,<br />
Mohan Pathapati, Vinod Thottikkatu<br />
and Hashim Zia and was under the direction<br />
of Preeti Endlaw. The Doing Business<br />
2015 outreach strategy is executed by<br />
a communications team led by Nadine<br />
Ghannam and including Hyun Kyong<br />
Lee and Sushmitha Malini Narsiah, with<br />
support from Merrell Tuck-Primdahl and<br />
World Bank Group communications colleagues<br />
around the world.<br />
The team is grateful for the valuable<br />
comments provided by colleagues in<br />
the World Bank Group (both on the<br />
draft report and on the changes in the<br />
methodology) and outside the World<br />
Bank Group (on the changes in the methodology)<br />
and for the guidance provided by<br />
World Bank Group Executive Directors.<br />
The team would especially like to acknowledge<br />
the comments and guidance