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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

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