The Report was prepared by the Development Prospects Group in the World Bank, drawing on resources throughout the Development Economics Vice Presidency and the World Ban’s Operational regions. Richard Newfarmer was the lead author and manager of the report, under the direction of Uri Dadush. The Report was prepared under the general guidance of the former Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Nicholas Stern. Core team members and chapter authors were: Richard Newfarmer is Economic Advisor to the International Trade Department and the Development Prospects Group, where he was lead author of the recent Bank report, Global Economic Prospects 2005: Trade, Regionalism and Development. He has been with the Bank since 1983, as Lead Economist in the Chief Economist’s Office for East Asia and for the China and Mongolia Department, as Chief of the Industry and Energy Division in the China Department, and as Principal Economist for Argentina. Before joining the Bank, Richard Newfarmer was a Senior Fellow at the Overseas Development Council, and was on the Economics faculty at the University of Notre Dame. He holds a PhD and two M.A.s from the University of Wisconsin, and a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz (Highest Honors). He is also serving on the Advisory Group for the Third North American Symposium on Assessing the Environmental Effects of Trade for the Commission on Environment Cooperation for NAFTA, on the Advisory Board on Trade for the Center for Global Development, and has served on the Executive Council of the Latin American Studies Association. Pierre Sauve Jeffrey D. Lewis is Manager of the International Finance team in the Development Prospects Group, which is responsible for monitoring global financial market trends and their implications for developing countries. He has worked in the Trade Department as Economic Adviser on issues of global trade policy, regionalism, and country trade and macro policy; as Lead Economist for South Africa; in the Bank's Financial Policy and Risk Management Department; and as a country economist for Indonesia, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea. Before joining the Bank in 1993, he was an Institute Associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development for nine years, including five years as resident advisor on macro, fiscal, trade, and debt issues in the Indonesian Ministry of Finance. He has consulted in Colombia, Venezuela, Bangladesh, Turkey, Uganda, and Zambia, and has carried out extensive research in areas including economic modeling, exchange rates and trade policy, stabilization and structural adjustment policies in developing economies, and regional trade arrangements. He is a member of the UNAIDS Reference Group on the Economic Impact of AIDS. Jeffrey Lewis has a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. 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. Hans Timmer is Lead Economist and Manager of the Global Trends Team in the Development Prospects Group. Before joining the Bank in May 2000, he was head of international economic analysis at the Central Planning Bureau (CPB) for ten years. He has had vast experience working with the European Commission, IPCC and the OECD, as well as with the Indian Planning Commission and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; and has participated in international modeling groups such as LINK and GTAP. Hans Timmer studied Econometrics at Erasmus University, Rotterdam and has been a researcher at the University of Lodz in Poland and at the Netherlands Economic Institute. Scott Wallsten is an economist in the World Bank’s Development Research Group and co-authored chapter 4 of the Report. His work focuses on regulation, privatization, and competition, as well as the economics of science and technology. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1998, and has been a staff economist at the U.S. President’s Council of Economic Advisers (1995-1996) and a visiting faculty member at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (1999-2001).
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