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Acknowledgments This volume is based on work that began at the World Bank more than three years ago to produce a report on the Russian investment climate that would assess the constraints and opportunities facing the Russian Federation in its efforts to create a more diverse and innovative economy. We are, therefore, heavily indebted to those individuals at the World Bank who were initially responsible for shaping the issues and priorities of the report: Alfred Jay Watkins and Alexandra L. Drees-Gross, under whose leadership the first phases of the project were begun and who contributed to the development of the project’s overall concept and strategy. We express our deep gratitude for the support and collaboration of the Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow State University, which formulated and conducted the enterprise surveys in Russia under the direction of Professor Evgeny Yasin and Dr. Andrei Yakovlev, with the participation of Ksenia Gonchar and Viktoria Golikova. The authors benefited immeasurably from the presentation of preliminary findings at HSE and from extensive conversations with our HSE colleagues. We also benefited from additional presentations at the Global Institute’s Annual Russia-China Conference in Moscow and from feedback from Igor Fedyukin, Sergei Guriev, Ksenia Yudaeva, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya. Vastly strengthening the arguments, evidence, and conclusions of this volume were the contributions—both substantive and collaborative—of a number of colleagues: Paloma Anos-Casero, Igor Artemiev, Irina Astrakhan, Gail xiii 11148-00_FM_rev.qxd 6/6/08 2:24 PM Page xiii xiv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Buyske, Alexandru Cojocaru, Jacqueline Coolidge, Carl Dahlman, Irina Dezhina, Inderbir S. Dhingra, Olga Emelyanova, Rostislav Kapelyushnikov, Laura Lanteri, John Litwack, Anna Lukyanova, Jack Martens, Emanuel Salinas Muñoz, David Tarr, and Sergei Ulatov. At the World Bank, Smita Kuriakose, Laura Lanteri, and Jasna Vukoje deserve a special mention for their invaluable production support and their overall supervision of the report through initial editing and production. We also are thankful for the extensive comments we received from those who took the time to review earlier drafts of our manuscript : Gordon Betcherman, Mark Dutz, William Maloney, and Shahid Yusuf. Each of us would like to thank Fernando Montes-Negret, director of the Finance and Private Sector Development Department of the Europe and Central Asia Region at the World Bank, for his strong support of this endeavor, for his extensive comments on previous drafts, and for his valuable insights and ideas. Kristalina Georgieva, former country director for Russia at the World Bank, also encouraged our efforts to extend the initial findings contained in earlier drafts of the report. More recently, Lael Brainard, vice president of the Global Economy and Development Program at Brookings, has been extremely supportive of our endeavor and of the collaboration between the World Bank and Brookings. Christopher Kelaher, Janet Walker, and Susan Woolen at Brookings Press and Valentina Kalk of the World Bank Publisher’s Office deserve special thanks for overseeing the cooperation between our institutions and for their guidance on numerous matters related to publication. Our manuscript was efficiently and skillfully edited by Eileen Hughes. For readers who wish to pursue the issues raised in this book, to examine the ongoing work of our institutions on these matters, or to replicate any of the results presented, all enterprise survey data used herein are available at www.brookings.edu/global (Brookings Institution) and www.worldbank. org/eca (World Bank). 11148-00_FM_rev.qxd 6/6/08 2:24 PM Page xiv ...

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