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AcknowledgmentsThis book was prepared by Douglas Zhihua Zeng, senior economist at theWorld Bank, and was financed through the generous support of the U.K.Department for International Development (DFID) China–Africa TrustFund, the Korea–World Bank Institute (WBI) Skills and InnovationProgram Trust Fund, and the Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) for Tradeand Development.The editor wishes to thank Janamitra Devan (vice president and head ofnetwork, Financial and Private Sector Development, World Bank Group)for his valuable comments. Ardo Hansson and Vincent Palmade were peerreviewers. The editor is grateful to Marilou Jane Uy, Klaus Rohland, BrunoLaporte, Raj Nallari, and Kurt Larsen for their management support.Special thanks go to Frank Sader, Ganesh Rasagam, William Martin, PhilipKarp, Thomas Farole, Yan Wang, Xiaobo Zhang, William Kingsmill,Gokhan Akinci, and Justine White for their strong support and valuableinput. This book also benefited from discussions with Michael J. Enright(professor, University of Hong Kong) and Christian Ketels (principalassociate, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard BusinessSchool). Bintao Wang provided excellent analytical support.The cases studies in this book were originally produced for the multiyearhigh-level China–Africa South–South Development Experience-Sharingxv