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 Jessica Torres Coronado, Francesca de Nicola, Daisuke Fukuzawa, Indira Maulani Hapsari, Hillary Johnson, Shafaat Yar Khan, Lydia Kim, Young Eun Kim, Duong Le, Maria Ana Lugo, Andrew D. Mason, Robert J. Palacios, Elizaveta Perova, Tobias Pfutze, Ratih Dwi Rahmadanti, Jonathan Timmis, Trang Thu Tran, Ikuko Uochi, Noah Yarrow, Matthew Wai-Poi, and Cecile Wodon.

Significant contributions to the report were made by Asya Akhlaque, Aneesa Arur, Kofi Awanyo, Rodrigo Barajas Aparicio, Simeth Beng, Tara Beteille, Massimiliano Cali, Sinem Kilic Celik, Pinyi Chen, Marie-Helene Cloutier, Antoine Coste, Fernando Dancausa, Reno Dewina, Katia D’Hulster, Aufa Doarest, Isaku Endo, Roberto Galang, David Gould, Forest Brach Jarvis, Alain Ntumba Kabundi, Uzma Khalil, Smita Kuriakose, Harry Lawless, Neni Lestari, Yusha Li, Cem Leon Menase, Antonia Preciosa Menezes, Snezana B. Mitrovic, Nina Pavlova Mocheva, Angella Faith Montfaucon, Somil Nagpal, Ou Nie, Fata No, Sara Nyman, Lucia Quaglietti, Will Paterson, Ravindra Rannan-Eliya, Aparnaa Somanathan, Francesco Strobbe, Shawn Tan, Juni Tingting, Radu Tutucu, Shu Yu, Shuwen Zheng, and Juncheng Zhou.

Bob Flanagan, Pagma Genden, Wei Han, Pandu Harimurti, Wayne Irava, Edith Kariko, Christophe Lemiere, Nareth Ly, Kate Mandeville, Emi Masaki, Mike Michael, Jose Mousaco, Somil Nagpal, Mesulame Namedre, Anh Thuy Nguyen, Dayo Obure, Sutayut Osornprasop, Eko Pambudi, Anne Provo, Jake Robyn, Hui Sin Teo, Anna Wielogorska, and Shuo Zhang provided country-specific responses to the questionnaire on vaccination progress in the region.

Manuela V. Ferro and Victoria Kwakwa provided valuable guidance. We are grateful for helpful discussions and comments from Alejandro Cedeno, Ruud De Mooij, Ndiame Diop, Sebastian Eckardt, Mark Felsenthal, Erik Feyen, Birgit Hansl, Nicholas Keyes, Andy Shuai Liu, Lars Moller, Rinku Murgai, Zafer Mustafaoglu, Son Nam Nguyen, Martin Raiser, Kym Louise Smithies, Cecile Thioro Niang, David Wilson, and Hassan Zaman; and staff of the EAP region who participated in the consultation meetings on July 28 and September 9, 2021.