Doing Business 2020

Acknowledgments
Data collection and analysis for Doing Business 2020 were conducted by a 
team led by Santiago Croci (Program Manager, Doing Business) under the 
general direction of Rita Ramalho (Senior Manager, Global Indicators 
Group, Development Economics). Overall guidance for the preparation of 
the study was provided by Simeon Djankov (Senior Director, Development 
Economics). The project was managed with the support of Adrian Gonzalez, 
Charlotte Nan Jiang, Valentina Saltane, and Hulya Ulku. Other team members 
included Marwa Abdou, Youmna Al Hourani, Lucia Arnal Rodriguez, Yuriy 
Valentinovich Avramov, Ogma Dessirama Bale, Elodie Bataille, Farihane Ben 
Yedder, Erica Bosio, Liliya F Bulgakova, Kamal Chakaroun, Édgar Chávez, 
Maria-Magdalena Chiquier, Cyriane Marie Coste, Sabrina Fantoni Custodio, 
Najah Nina Dannaoui, Theophile de Saint Sernin, Marie Lily Delion, Nadine 
DiMonte, Varun Eknath, Viktoriya Ereshchenko, Vanessa Maria Cervello 
Ferrando, Dorina Peteva Georgieva, Claudia Gonzalez Cobos, Tom Kairuz 
Harb, Becem Hassen, Maho Hatayama, Maksym Iavorskyi, Amina Naomi 
Idris, Hervé Kaddoura, New Doe Kaledzi, Klaus Koch-Saldarriaga, Olga 
Kuzmina, Sarah Kouhlani Nolla, Iryna Lagodna, Loic Sebastien Lanci, 
Anouk Leger, Joseph Lemoine, Tiziana Londero, Silvia Carolina Lopez 
Rocha, Courtney Masters, Raman Maroz, Rumbidzai Maweni, Margherita 
Mellone, Nuno Filipe Mendes Dos Santos, Frederic Meunier, Joanna Nasr, 
Marie-Jeanne Ndiaye, Albert Nogués i Comas, Nadia Novik, Esperanza 
Pastor Núñez de Castro, Adjoua Marie-Pascale Nzi, Enrique Orellana Tamez, 
Alexia Pimbli, Marion Pinto, Greta Polo, Oleksandra Popova, Maria Antonia 
Quesada Gámez, Parvina Rakhimova, Mariyam Raziyeva, Nathalie Reyes 
Benjumea, Martin Ruiz-Cantu, Julie Anne Ryan, Syuzanna Simonyan, 
Katarzyna Sokal, Ines Sosa, Jayashree Srinivasan, Mihaela Stangu, Erick 
Tjong, Judith Trasancos Rodríguez, Farrukh Umarov, Yulia Borisovna 
Valerio, Rongpeng (Tiffany) Yang, Marilyne Youbi, Inés Zabalbeitia Múgica, 
Yasmin Zand, Dou Zhang, and Muqiao (Chloe) Zhang. 
Yaser Abdulrahman H Alhusaini, Meshal Abdulaziz Alkhowaiter, 
Daad Abdullah Alshabanah, Adnane Ayeb, Tomilehin Folake Babafemi, 
Tsenguunjav Byambasuren, Maria Alejandra Castellanos Chavarria, Marie 
Jose Anne Caroline Chatelain, Maxime Delavallee, Ava Josyane Armande 
Drai, Shoola Dzhumaeva, Nadine Khaled Eloseily, Caleb Enrique Espinoza, 
Jade Christian Hachem, Ritika Narayan Iyer, Guyu Jiang, Zan Jin, Clemens 
Mathis Henrik Graf von Luckner, Daniel Anselmo Marechal, Morris J. 

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McGinn, Kensi Poukouta, Carolina Nugnes, Ngozi Joann Nwanta, Alexandre 
Fujishima Silveira de Oliveira, Lodovico Onofri, Lidia Panarello, Manisha 
Panda, Michele Franchetti Pardo, Roxane Louise Manijeh Peloux, Ziyue 
Qiu, Hyung Sub Roh, Lukshmee Saravanapavan, Bit Na Ra Shin, Kimberly 
Suárez-Contreras, Lluis Dalmau Taules, and Qunrui Zhou, assisted in the 
months before publication. 
The team is grateful for the valuable comments provided by colleagues, 
both within and outside the World Bank Group, and for the guidance pro-
vided by World Bank Group Executive Directors.

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