Acknowledgements

Under the general guidance of Liu Zhenmin, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, and Elliott Harris, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development and Chief Economist, and the management of Pingfan Hong, Director of the Economic Analysis and Policy Division (EAPD) in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), Hamid Rashid, Chief of the Development Research Branch, led the drafting team of the report, comprising Hoi Wai Jackie Cheng, Nicole Hunt, S. Nazrul Islam, Alex Julca, Berna Dogan-Van Gisbergen, Hiroshi Kawamura, Kristinn Sv. Helgason, Marcelo LaFleur, Mariangela Parra-Lancourt, Ana Rachael Powell and John Sloan. Dawn Holland, Daniel Jeong-Dae Lee, and Sweta Saxena provided additional inputs. Kathy Heejung Jung, Linying He, Xiaochu Ma and Meiyu Si provided research assistance. Background papers for the publication were prepared by Lars-Erik Cederman, Vally Koubi, Ashok Swain, and Yannick Pengl.

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