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The Road to Stability and Prosperity in South Eastern Europe
A Regional Strategy Paper

Acknowledgements

This Report was prepared in response to the mandate given to the World Bank and the European Commission under Article 41 of the Stability Pact to coordinate a regional approach to South Eastern Europe. The Report was a prepared by the Europe and Central Asia Region of the World Bank, in close consultation with the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the European Investment Bank, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Council of Europe Development Bank and the Council of Europe. The Office of the Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact, especially the Chairman of Working Table II, Fabrizio Saccomanni and Deputy Special Coordinator, Ed Kronenburg , also provided invaluable support and guidance. The views expressed in this Report do not necessarily represent those of the institutions involved in the preparatory work.

The principal authors of the Report were Arntraud Hartmann (Country Director for Croatia and Albania, ECA Region, World Bank), Daniela Gressani (Sector Manager for South Eastern Europe, ECA Region, World Bank), and Kyle Peters (Sector Manager for Macroeconomics II, ECA Region, World Bank) under the leadership of Christiaan Poortman (Regional Coordinator for South Eastern Europe, ECA Region, World Bank). Numerous people from many organizations and institutions assisted in the Report’s preparation: George Zavvos, Barbara Kauffman, Dirk Buda, Michael Vedso (EC); Hans Peter Lankes, Marina Wes (EBRD); Massimo d’Eufemia, Axel Hörhager, Kristian Uppenberg, Chris Hurst (EIB); Nick Malyshev, Silvana Malle, Declan Murphy (OECD); Michèle Meunier (Council of Europe Development Bank); Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni, Dimo Iliev, (Council of Europe). Many World Bank staff also made substantive contributions: Constantine Michalopoulos, Gerardo Corrochano, Juan Carlos Ginarte, Zhicheng Li, Nick Manning, Andras Horvai, Francois Ettori, Dena Ringold, Gloria La Cava, Steven Holtzman, Mian Ifthikar Khalid, Marjory-Anne Bromhead, Konrad Von Ritter, John Nash, Rita Klees, Stephanie Abdulin, Eva Molnar, Gareth Locksley, Maureen Lewis, Philip O’Keefe, Helga Treichel, Manuel Marino, Alexandre Marc, Walter Stottmann, Severin Kodderitzsch, Graham Smith, Anca Dumitrescu, Louis Thompson, James Stevens and Laura Rose. Kathryn Rivera, Erlinda Inglis, Dorota Kowalska, Viktor Soukhanov and Sherwin Boyne provided invaluable assistance.

Special thanks are also due to the staff of the joint World Bank-European Commission Office for South East Europe (Rory O’Sullivan, Ollivier Bodin, Mandeep Bains, Janet Dooley, Anne Kanarek, and Carol Stemp) for not only their substantive, but also their logistical, support for the preparation of this Report.

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