On August 17, the Marmara Region of Turkey was hit by a massive earthquake. The World Bank was invited by the Government to help prepare an assessment of the cost of reconstruction and the impact of the earthquake on the economy. Two World Bank teams were mobilized very rapidly to assist the Government in this effort.

The Marmara Earthquake Emergency Recovery team began work on August 24 and completed an earthquake damage assessment. The team was comprised of Piotr Wilczynski (team leader, ECSSD), Nedret Durutan (ECCTR), Catherine Stevens (ECSSD), Christophe Pusch (ECSSD), Alcira Kreimer (TWURD), Richard Lacroix (ECSSD), Ralf Schwimmbeck (EMTOG), Dejan Ostojic (ECSEG), Anders Halldin (ECSSD), Eugene Gurenko (ECSIN), Amy Evans (ECSSD), Michael Mertaugh (ECSHD), Betty Hanan (ECSHD), Richard Andrews (Consultant), and Sven-Ake Blomberg (Consultant).

The second team began work on September 1 and completed an earthquake economic assessment and synthesized the two reports. The team was comprised of James Parks (Team Leader, ECCTR), Ismail Arslan (Deputy Team Leader, ECCTR), Abebe Aemro Selassie (IMF), Mark Sundberg (ECSPE), Jeanine Braithwaite (ECSPE), Tunc Uyanik (ECSFP), Nevin Turk (IFC), Insan Tunali (Consultant), Mediha Agar (ECCTR) and Pinar Baydar (ECCTR).

Both teams completed their work on September 10. This report, coordinated by James Parks, presents their findings. The report has been prepared under the overall guidance of Ajay Chhibber, Country Director.

The World Bank teams worked very closely with government agencies, and consulted widely with the private sector, non-governmental organizations, universities, other international agencies. The teams would like to thank the Undersecretariat of Treasury for coordinating their work.

The findings will need updating as more information becomes available. They represents our best estimates and conclusions at this point and are made available to help Government formulate an overall and comprehensive approach to the reconstruction and recovery from the earthquake.

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