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Acknowledgements
The World Investment Report 2004 (WIR04) was prepared ?
under the overall direction of Karl P. Sauvant ? by a team comprising
Persephone Economou, Kumi Endo, Torbjörn Fredriksson, Masataka
Fujita, Kálmán Kalotay, Michael Lim, Padma Mallampally, Anne
Miroux, Abraham Negash, Hilary Nwokeabia, Shin Ohinata, Jean
François Outreville, Kee Hwee Wee, James Xiaoning Zhan and
Zbigniew Zimny. Specific inputs were prepared by Diana
Barrowclough, Sirn Byung Kim, Nicole Moussa, Ludger Odenthal,
Satwinder Singh, Elisabeth Tuerk and Katja Weigl.
Principal research assistance was provided by Mohamed
Chiraz Baly, Bradley Boicourt, John Bolmer, Lizanne Martinez and
Tadelle Taye. Samantha Dolet, Cristina Gueco, Erik-Hans Kok, Moritz
Hunsmann, Nargiza Kuldashova, Bart Orr, Domenika Praxmarer, Anne
Riijntjes and Chen Zhang assisted as interns at various stages. The
production of the WIR04 was carried out by Christopher Corbet, Lilian
Mercado, Lynda Piscopo, Chantal Rakotondrainibe and Esther
Valdivia-Fyfe. Graphics were done by Diego Oyarzun-Reyes. WIR04
was desktop published by Teresita Sabico. It was edited by Praveen
Bhalla.
Sanjaya Lall was the principal consultant. John H. Dunning
was the senior economic adviser.
WIR04 benefited from inputs provided by participants in a
Global Seminar in Geneva in May 2004, two regional seminars on
FDI in services in March 2004 held in Kyoto and Budapest, a seminar
on international investment agreements covering services held in
Geneva in May 2004 and an informal meeting with non-governmental
organizations held in Geneva in October 2003.
Inputs were also received from Dilek Aykut, Frank Barry,
Maria Giovanna Bosco, John Cassidy, Harnik Deol, C ...