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. 

Manuela V. Ferro provided valuable guidance. We are grateful for helpful discussions and comments to Bejoy Das Gupta, ndiame Diop, sebastian Eckardt, Erik feyen, Davide furceri, Ayhan Kose, Paolo Mauro, Tewodaj Mogues, Lars Moller, Rinku Murgai, Zafer Mustafaoglu, franziska ohnsorge, Ugo Panizza, shanaka Jayanath Peiris, Martin Raiser, Mauricio soto, Cecile Thioro niang, Hassan Zaman, and Jeromin Zettelmeyer; and staff of the EAP region who participated in the consultation meetings on February 9 and March 7, 2022. We greatly appreciate the support for dissemination provided by Alejandro Cedeno, Mariana Lucia De Lama Odria, Mark Felsenthal, Nicholas Keyes, Andy Shuai Liu, and Kym Louise Smithies.