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Acknowledgments
Contact details for local partners are available
on the Doing Business website at
http://www.doingbusiness.org
Doing Business in 2006 was prepared by a team led by Simeon
Djankov and Caralee McLiesh under the general direction of
Michael Klein. The team also comprised Ziad Azar,Ghanem-
Redouane Benamadi,Vivian Callaghan, Marie Delion, Penelope
Fidas, Melissa Johns, Joanna Kata-Blackman, Marcelo
Lu, Darshini Manraj, Facundo Martin, Nikolay Naumovich,
Rita Ramalho, Sylvia Solf, Donaji Valencia and Lihong Wang.
Additional assistance in the months prior to publication was
provided by Olufunmilola Akintan, Tim Ganser, Michael
Gilbert, Franck Kpomalegni and Amine Taha.
Mihir Desai, Oliver Hart, Rafael La Porta and Andrei
Shleifer provided academic advice on the project. The paying
taxes project was conducted in partnership with
PricewaterhouseCoopers, led by Robert Morris with Kelly
Murray and Penny Vaughn. The protecting investors and
enforcing contracts projects were conducted in partnership
with the Lex Mundi association, led by Carl Anduri and Sam
Nolen.Data collection for the trading across borders project
was assisted by AP Moller–Maersk, led by Soren Hansen;
Bolloré Group, led by Jean Marcel Gariador and Denis
Cordel; Freightnet, led by Phil Morrison;Panalpina Inc., led
by Mike Krieg; and the World Customs Organization, led by
Franck Lecoindre. Jean-François Gerard and Bianca Kingdon
from Ius Laboris contributed to data collection on hiring
and firing workers. Tony Burns wrote a background
paper for the registering property chapter. Uma Subramanian
designed the trading across borders survey. Several
other organizations and individual experts provided input to
survey design, as detailed in the Data notes. Alison Strong
and Paul Holtz edited the manuscript. Timothy Harford and
Suzanne Smith provided additional editorial advice. Gerry
Quinn designed the report and the figures.
Individual chapters were refereed by a panel of experts
comprising Hamid Alavi,Magdi Amin, Nagavalli Annamalai,
Pauline Aranda, Jean Francois Arvis, Irina Astrakhan, Paul
Barbour, Lubomira Beardsley, Alexander Berg, Christina
Biebesheimer, Paul Brenton, John Bruce, Tony Burns, Mierta
Capaul, Stijn Claessens, Jacqueline Coolidge, Asli Demirguc-
Kunt, Amanda Ellis, Aurora Ferrari, Carsten Fink, Luke
Haggarty, Su Lin Han, Leora Klapper, Arvo Kuddo, Oscar
Madeddu, William Mako, Varsha Marathe, Gerard
McLinden, Richard Messick,Margaret Miller,Claudio Montenegro,
Tatiana Nenova, Richard Newfarmer, Carmen
Pages, Jose Manuel Palli,Vincent Palmade, John Panzer, Sue
Rutledge, Jolyne Sanjak, Phil Schuler, Sevi Simavi, Warrick
Smith, Peer Stein, Richard Stern, Stefano Stoppani, Uma
Subramanian, Richard Symonds, Vijay Tata, Agata Waclawik,
John Wilson and Luc De Wulf.
The full draft report was reviewed by Hormoz Aghdaey,
Simon Bell, Harry Broadman, Philip Keefer, Steven Knack,
Cornelis Kruk, Khalid Mirza, Anand Rajaram, Stefano
Scarpetta, Sandor Sipos, Andrew Stone, Nigel Twose and
Marilou Uy. We are grateful for comments and review provided
by the World Bank Group’s country teams.
The online service of the Doing Business database is
managed by the Rapid Response Unit of the World Bank
Group. The team was led by Suzanne Smith and comprised
Vadim Gorbach, Graeme Littler, Vandana Mathur, Victor
Robinson and Leila Search-Zalmai.
The report was made possible by the generous contribution
of more than 3,500 lawyers, accountants, judges,
business-people and public officials in 155 economies.
Quotations in this report are from local partners unless
otherwise indicated. The names of those wishing to be
acknowledged individually are listed on the following pages
and contact details are posted on the Doing Business website
at http://www.doingbusiness.org.