This report is a collective endeavor and involved several parts of the World Bank including the DEC, EAP, Efi, and HnP. 

it was prepared by a team led by Ergys islamaj, Aaditya Mattoo, and Ekaterine T. Vashakmadze. other members of the team were Vishesh Agarwal, Undral Batmunkh, Yu Cao, Francesca de Nicola, Caroline Gerd G De Roover, Daisuke  fukuzawa, Justin Damien Guenette, shafaat Yar Khan, Young Eun Kim, Duong Trung Le, Andrew D. Mason, Tobias Pfutze, Agustin samano Penaloza, Jonathan Timmis, ikuko Uochi, Ralph Van Doorn, Matthew Wai-Poi, and Cecile Wodon. 

significant contributions to the report were made by Maxym Chepeliev, ibrahim  saeed  Chowdhury, Reno Dewina, sergiy Kasyanenko, Uzma Khalil, smita Kuriakose, Yusha Li, Maria Ana Lugo, Maryla Maliszewska, Tonny Brian Mungai Muthee, Robert Palacios, franz Ulrich Ruch, Maria filipa seara e Pereira, Aparnaa somanathan, Kaltrina Temaj, and Radu Tutucu.