Paul Shaffer, Associate Professor, Trent University, Canada, Edited by Ravi Kanbur, T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor of Economics, Cornell University, USA, and Richard Sandbrook, Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada

Paul Shaffer is an Associate Professor of International Development Studies, at Trent University, Canada. His work focuses on poverty in the Global South on which he has published widely. He is the author of Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis (2013)

Ravi Kanbur has published in the leading economics journals, including Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory and Economic Journal. He has also served on the senior staff of the World Bank including as Chief Economist for Africa. He is President of the Human Development and Capabilities Association, Chair of the Board of United Nations University-World Institute for Development Economics Research, Co-Chair of the Scientific Council of the International Panel on Social Progress, member of the OECD High Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance, Past-President of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, past member of the High Level Advisory Council of the Climate Justice Dialogue, and past-member of the Core Group of the Commission on Global Poverty.

Richard Sandbrook is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Toronto. His current research focuses on the Left's experience in the Global South and on counter-hegemonic globalization. He has taught in Kenya as well as Canada and has been a visiting research fellow at the IDS, Sussex and the Centre for Development Research in Copenhagen. He has conducted field work mainly in Africa. He has published more than 50 scholarly articles and 12 books, including most recently Reinventing the Left in the Global South: The Politics of the Possible (2014), Civilizing Globalization: A Survival Guide {2014), and Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospects (2007).

Murat Arsel, Erasmus University, Rotterdam and Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
Rasaki Stephen Dauda, Redeemer's University, Nigeria
Vidya Diwakar, Chronic Poverty Advisory Network
John Donaldson, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University
Kyunghoon Kim, King's College London, UK
Carlos F. Mena, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
Andy McKay, University of Sussex, UK
Lorenzo Pellegrini, Erasmus University, Netherlands, and the University San Francisco of Quito, Ecuador
Richard Sandbrook, University of Toronto, Canada
Kunal Sen, University of Manchester, UK
Paul Shaffer, Trent University, Canada
Andrew Shepherd, Chronic Poverty Advisory Network. Overseas Development Institute, UK
Judith Teichman, University of Toronto, Canada
Benjamin Liu, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Andy Sumner, King's College London, UK
Anjana Thampi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Dr. Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University, UK
Yeo Si Yuan, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland
Arief Anshory Yusuf, Padjadjaran University, Indonesia
Xiaobo Zhang, Peking University, China