This report was jointly produced by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE), led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director, and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (Lincoln Institute), led by George W. McCarthy, President and CEO. This report was produced as part of the Programme of Work of the Regional Development Policy Committee (RDPC). Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) provided further financial and administrative support.
The report was drafted by a team composed of Jaebeum Cho (OECD), Luis Quintanilla Tamez (Lincoln Institute) and Enrique Silva (Lincoln Institute) (Chapter 1), Matteo J. Schleicher (OECD, Questionnaire and Country Notes), Lorena Figueiredo (consultant, Country Notes), Andrew Lombardi (OECD, Country Notes), and Vu Tran (consultant, Questionnaire). The report and policy dialogue was managed by Andrés Fuentes Hutfilter (OECD), Luis Quintanilla Tamez (Lincoln Institute), Abel Schumann (OECD), and Sena Segbedzi (OECD). The report was under the supervision of Rudiger Ahrend, Head of the Economic Analysis, Data and Statistics Division and Aziza Akhmouch, Head of Cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development Division within CFE, as well as Enrique Silva, Director of International Initiatives at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
The OECD and Lincoln Institute would like to thank Aparna Das (GIZ), Alix Loisier Dufour (GIZ) and Barbara Scholz (GIZ) for their collaboration and contribution to the Compendium. In addition, special thanks are directed to the following experts for their participation in the advisory group and for completing the questionnaire for each country: Illari Cristina Aguilar Sanguinetti, Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Ahmed Tarek Ahmed Awad Alahwal, Albina Aleksienė, Yakubu Aliyu Bununu, Rachelle Alterman, David Amborski, Camilo Arriagada, Patricia Austin, Armands Auziņš, Joseph Ayitio, Izabella Barati, Charl-Thom Bayer, Ashiru Bello, Stephen Berrisford, Samuel Banleman Biitir, Myungshik Choi, Tony Crook, Musharraf Cyan, Aparna Das, Jean Du Plessis, Richard Dunning, Agustinus Yunastiawan Eka Pramana, Peter Ekbäck, Moha El-Ayachi, Marcela Roman Forastelli, Georgia Giannakourou, Brano Glumac, Julius Golej, Maria Cristina Gomezjurado Jaramillo, Margarita Greene, Sonia Guelton, Astrid Haas, Jean-Marie Halleux, Enamul Haq, Andreas Hengstermann, Yu Hung Hong, Du Huynh, Evelin Jürgenson, Minjee Kim, Julie Kim, Ignacio Kunz, Julie Lawson, Anka Lisec, Dirk Löhr, Yogita Lokhande, Dulce Lopes, Manuel Martin Lozada Checa, Melinda Lis Maldonado, María Mercedes Maldonado, Carlos Marmolejo Duarte, Andrii Martyn, Pablo Molina Alegre, James Muldowney, Tony Mulhall, Jin Murakami, Berit Irene Nordahl, Luise Noring, Martim O. Smolka, Sock Yong Phang, Laura Pogliani, Sonia Rabello, Francisco Salazar, Paulo Sandroni, Arthur Schindelegger, Annette Tejada, Frew Mengistu Truneh, Şevkiye Şence Türk, Erwin Van der Krabben, Eliška Vejchodská, Kauko Viitanen, Anis Wahabi, Dalia Wahdan, Jiawen Yang and Tomasz Zaborowski.
Pilar Philip co-ordinated the production process of the report, and Nikolina Jonsson and Carlos Lerma Poveda provided editing support.