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Acknowledgments
This study has been written by Michele Ruta (Team Leader; Lead Economist,
Macroeconomics, Trade & Investment), Matias Herrera Dappe (Senior Economist, Transport),
Somik Lall (Lead Economist, Social, Urban, Rural, & Resilience), and Chunlin Zhang (Lead
Private Sector Specialist, Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation), with Erik Churchill
(Consultant, Macroeconomics, Trade & Investment), Cristina Constantinescu (Economist,
Macroeconomics, Trade & Investment), Mathilde Lebrand (Economist, Transport), and Alen
Mulabdic (Analyst, Macroeconomics, Trade & Investment).
The study is an output of a multi-GP research program led by the Macroeconomics, Trade
& Investment Global Practice in collaboration with the Transport, Finance, Competitiveness
& Innovation, and Social, Urban, Rural, & Resilience Global Practices. Caroline Freund
(Director, Macroeconomics, Trade & Investment) provided guidance and supervision.
The content draws on background papers and inputs produced by Luca Bandiera, Suprabha
Baniya, Marcus Bartley Johns, Paulo Bastos, Julia Bird, Mauro Boa, Cecilia Briceno-
Garmendia, Masud Cader, Alexander Cantor, Maggie Chen, Julian Latimer Clarke, Cristina
Constantinescu, Ben Derudder, Francois De Soyres, Tania Ghossein, David Gould, Puja Guha,
Daniel Zerfu Gurara, Bernard Hoekman, Tim Kelly, Clay Kerswell, Priyanka Kher, Charles
Kunaka, Somik Lall, Mathilde Lebrand, Chuanhao Lin, Clay Lin, Mingqing Liu, Xingjian Liu,
Elizabeth Losos, Maryla Maliszewska, Sara Mason, Gerard McLinden, Vikram Menon, Seth
Morgan, Alen Mulabdic, Siobhan Murray, Lydia Olander, Georgi Panterov, Alex Pfa, Tristan
Reed, Nadia Rocha, Michele Ruta, Dimitry Sivaev, Shujie Shao, Anirudh Shingal, Daria
Taglioni, Hua Tan, Trang Thu Tran, Alexandr Trubetskoy, Vasileios Tsiropoulos, Dominique van
der Mensbrugghe, Tony Venables, Christina Wiederer, and Douglas Zhihua Zeng.
All nalized papers, data, and blogs have been posted on the World Bank website created
and maintained by Erin Scronce (Communications Ocer, ECREF) and are available at
https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/regional-integration/brief/belt-and-road-initiative.
The team would like to thank for their guidance and comments Ceyla Pazarbasioglu (Vice
President, GGEVP), Makhtar Diop (Vice President, GGIVP), Laura Tuck (Vice President,
GGSVP), Victoria Kwakwa (Vice President, EAPVP), Cyril Muller (Vice President, ECAVP),
the late Jan Walliser (former Vice President, GGEVP), Penny Goldberg (Chief Economist,
WBG), Hans Peter Lankes (Vice President, CEDVP), Lilia Burunciuc (Country Director,
ECCCA), Bert Hofman (former Country Director, EACCF), Martin Raiser (Country
Director, EACCF), Guangzhe Chen (Sr. Director, GTRTR), Shantayanan Devarajan (Sr.
Director, DECVP), Karin Kemper (Sr. Director, GENDR), Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez (Sr. Director,
SURR), Deborah L. Wetzel (Sr. Director, GGODR), Zoubida Allaoua (Director, GFCDR),
Franz R. Drees-Gross (Director, GTDDR), Simeon Djankov (Director, DECCE), Sameh
Wahba (Director, SURR), Rabah Arezki (Chief Economist, MNACE), Asli Demirguc-
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