This Report was prepared by the Development Prospects Group (Volume I) and the Development Data Group (Volume II) of the Development Economics Vice Presidency and drew on resources throughout the World Bank Group. The task manager and principal author of the Report was Dipak Dasguta, with direction from Uri Dadush. The Report was initiated under the general direction of Joseph Stiglitz, former Chief Economist and Senior Vice President and completed under Jo Ritzen, acting Chief Economist. Dipak Dasgupta is currently Sector Manager in the Middle East and North Africa Region of the World Bank. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Dasgupta was Principle and then Lead Economist in the Development Prospects Group. He holds an M.A. in Economics from Cambridge University and a PH.D. in Economics, International Trade and Finance from Cambridge University. Ashoka Mody is currently the International Monetary Fund. He joined the World Bank in 1987and worked in various positions until 2003. In 1997 he spent a year at the Wharton School as a visiting Professor of Public Policy. Prior to joining the World Bank and later the IMF, he was a Research Associate at the Centre for Development Studies in Trivandum and a member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories. He earned a degree in Electronics from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, a M.Phil. in Applied Economics from the Centre for Development Studies in Trivandrum and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Boston University. Dilip Ratha, a Senior Economist, writes topical chapters in the Global Development Finance reports, monitors global capital markets, and prepares medium-term forecasts of capital flows to developing countries. Prior Bank assignments include sovereign risk analysis in FINCR, and state enterprise reforms in China in the research department. Work experience outside the Bank includes positions as Asia Regional Economist, Credit Agricole Indosuez; Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; Economist, The Policy Group, New Delhi; and Lecturer, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. Elliot J. (Mick) Riordan is a Senior Economist for the Global Trends Team of the Development Prospects Group, providing forecast analysis for the group’s products and publications. He has participated in studies on topics of global importance such as Iraq, and oil prices, which support the Bank’s Regional efforts to better understand the global context. Before joining the Bank, he was Director of International Consulting for the WEFA Group (now Global Insights), and was also involved in foreign exchange advisory work, and large-scale projects in contract consulting. Mick Riordan holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics (1981), and a BSc in International Business from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (1977). William Shaw retired in 2004 as Lead Economist for the International Finance Team of the Development Prospects Group and is currently working with the group as the principal author of the Global Economic Prospects 2006 Report. He has also worked in Regional Operations on Bolivia, Tanzania, and private sector development issues in the Caribbean. Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Shaw worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Mr. Shaw holds a Ph.D. from George Washington University. Malvina Pollock is currently a Lead Debt Specialist in the World Bank’s Credit Risk Group (SFRCR). She coordinates the Bank’s work with the Paris Club and the Berne Union. |
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