Acknowledgements

This first issue of the World Public Sector Report, on Globalization and the State, was prepared by a team of the Division for Public Economics and Public Administration (DPEPA) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). Under the overall responsibility of the Director of the Division, Mr. Guido Bertucci, Mr. Demetrios Argyriades and Ms. Adriana Alberti were editor in chief and editor respectively of the entire Report, and contributed to Part I. A number of staff members of the Division also contributed in various degrees, including Larry Willmore who prepared Part II of the Report. The following external advisors provided valuable material, feedback and advice in the preparation of this Report: G. Bouckaert, Gerald Caiden, Naomi Caiden, O.P. Dwivedi, Joachim Hesse, Michael Illner, Moses Kiggundu, Bernardo Kliksberg, Derry Ormond, José Sulbrandt, and Gérard Timsit. External editing, and layout and graphic design were provided by Angel Antonio García and Adolfo I. Vargas respectively.

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