Acknowledgments
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    The preparation of this report was coordinated by Terry McKinley under the direction of Eimi Watanabe, assistant administrator of UNDP and director of the Bureau for Development Policy, Siba Das, deputy director of the Bureau for Development Policy, and Stephen Browne, director of the Social Development and Poverty Elimination Division. The report team included Erika Lund, Josephine Mahinda, Elizabeth Satow, Anuradha Seth and Nritya Subramaniam. The editor of the report was Bruce Ross-Larson, the copy editor Alison Strong and the coordinator of editing Molly Lohman, all of Communications Development Incorporated.

      James Gustave Speth, former administrator of UNDP, Thierry Lemaresquier, former director of the Social Development and Poverty Elimination Division, and Nada Al-Nashif, deputy director of the Office of the Administrator, gave invaluable support and encouragement during the early work on the report. Deserving special acknowledgment is Elizabeth Satow for the major role she played in coordinating work on both UNDP Poverty Report 1998 and UNDP Poverty Report 2000.

      Consultants working directly with the report team were Enrique Delamonica, Maria Figueroa and Stephanie Hodge. Continuing assistance was given by Cecile Collas and Natalia Palgova of the United Nations Office for Project Services.

      The report was produced in close collaboration with UNDP's Division of Public Affairs and benefited, in particular, from the contributions of Maureen Lynch, Evelyn Samore, Elizabeth Scott Andrews, Cynthia Spence and Nicole Toutounje.

      Special thanks go to all those who contributed to the assessments of national poverty programmes:

      Report team members: Terry McKinley, who did the assessments of China and Mongolia; Elizabeth Satow, who did the assessments of the Gambia, Ghana and Zimbabwe; and Anuradha Seth, who did the assessments of Benin, Burkina Faso, Mauritania and Morocco.

      International consultants: Fantu Cheru (South Africa), Nadia Hijab (Yemen), Nguyen Xuan Luong, SEA SURF (Thailand), Siddiqur Rahman Osmani (Nepal), Marc Raffinot, DIAL (Mali), Michael Reynolds (Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan), Alvaro Rodriguez, SEA SURF (Thailand) and Mário Adauta de Sousa (Mozambique).

      National consultants: Yahya Almutawakel (Yemen), Salim Bachou (Uganda), Bhuban B. Bajracharya (Nepal), José Márcio Camargo (Brazil), Diallo Cheick Sadibou (Mali), Emmanuel S. de Dios (Philippines), Francisco H. G. Ferreira (Brazil), Dilnara Isameddinova (Uzbekistan), Anara Musabaeva (Kyrgyzstan), Christina Matusse (Mozambique), Salaamu Musumba (Uganda), Jaime Saavedra Chanduví (Peru), Ali Sanaa (Tunisia), Isidoro Santana, ECOCARIBE (Dominican Republic), Shuman Sharma (Nepal) and José Alves Sulemane (Mozambique). Assistants: Lawrence Dacuycuy (Philippines) and Eduardo Maruyama Sasaki (Peru).

      National coordinators: Lawrence Bategeka (Uganda), Gabi Buettner (Kyrgyzstan), Bella Evidente (Philippines), Carmen Gomez (Dominican Republic), Alissabatou Goune (Mali), Abdulbasit Ishak (Yemen), José Carlos Libanio (Brazil), Metsi Makhetha (South Africa), Mariam Pangah (Mozambique), Florida Perevertaylo (Uzbekistan), Stella Pinto (Mozambique), Jana Ricasio (Philippines), Elzira Sagynbaeva (Kyrgyzstan), Raul Salazar (Peru), Nabina Shrestha (Nepal) and Walaitat Worakul (Thailand).

      Special thanks go to Samina Kamal of the Management Development and Governance Division, Bureau for Development Policy, and to the poverty focal points in UNDP's regional bureaux: Adel Abdellatif, Berhe Costantinos, Enrique Ganuza, Heba El-Kholy, Saraswathi Menon, Omar Noman and Kanni Wignaraja.

      Special thanks also go to those who provided data: Gül Tanghe-Gülluova and Laura Mourino-Casas (Human Development Report Office), Gareth Jones and Tessa Wardlow (UNICEF), Hania Zlotnik (United Nations Population Division) and Will Prince (World Bank, World Development Indicators team).

      This report could not have been produced without the data supplied by the 134 UNDP country offices on national poverty planning, estimates and targets and the information supplied by many of them on UNDP-supported anti-poverty policies, programmes and projects.

      Valuable comments were received from Randa Aboul-Hosn, Sophie de Caen, Heather Clark, Desmond Cohen, Renata Dessallien, Moez Doraid, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Zahir Jamal, Richard Jolly, Karen Jorgensen, Kamal Malhotra, Peter Matlon, Ian McFarlane, Pratibha Mehta, Roland Msiska, Andreas Pfeil, Kate Raworth, Jordan Ryan, Turhan Saleh, Martin Santiago, Roger Shotton, Mounir Tabet, Sarah Timpson and Caitlin Wiesen.

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