Edited by John Page, Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development, The Brookings Institution, and Finn Tarp, Director, UNU-WIDER and Professor of Development Economics, University of Copenhagen

John Page is a Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution and a Non-resident Senior Fellow of the UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER). He is also visiting professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan and a Research Associate of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University. From 1980 to 2008 he was at the World Bank where his senior positions included: Director, Poverty Reduction, Director, Economic Policy, and Chief Economist, Africa. He is the author of several books and more than 100 published papers on economic development.

Finn Tarp is Director of UNU-WIDER and Professor of Development Economics at the University of Copenhagen. He has some four decades of experience in academic and applied development economics research, teaching, and policy analysis. His field experience covers more than 20 years of in-country assignments in 35 countries across the developing world, including longer-term assignments in Swaziland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Viet Nam. Finn Tarp has published widely in leading international academic journals alongside a series of books, and he is a member of the World Bank Chief Economist's 'Council of Eminent Persons'.

Ernest Aryeetey, University of Ghana
Haroon Bhorat, University of Cape Town
Aalia Cassim, National Treasury, South Africa
Hinh T. Dinh, OPC Policy Center
Thomas Farole, The World Bank
Mulu Gebreeyesus, Ethiopian Development Research Institute
Rachel M. Gisselquist, UNU-WIDER
Alan Hirsch, University of Cape Town
Eun Mee Kim, Ewha Womans University
Alberto Lemma, Overseas Development Institute
Justin Yifu Lin, Peking University
Lotta Moberg, William Blair & Co. LLC
Nkechi S. Owoo, University of Ghana
John Page, Brookings Institution
Rajah Rasiah, University of Malaya
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University
Finn Tarp, UNU-WIDER
Dirk Willem te Velde, Overseas Development Institute
Khuong Minh Vu, National University of Singapore
Tu-Anh Vu-Thanh, Harvard University