KATHRYN ANDERSON Graduate Programme in Economic Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN, USA PAUL GLEWWE The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA KAREL JANSEN Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands and National University, Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam DOOWON LEE Economics Department, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea SAHIYA LHAGVA Institute of Economics, Mongolian State University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia ZHU LING Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China JENNIE LITVACK The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA MAMTA MURTHI Research Fellow, Centre for History and Economics, King's College, Cambridge, UK RICHARD POMFRET Department of Economics, University of Adelaide, Australia MENNO PRADHAN Free University, The Netherlands KINNON SCOTT The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA PAOLO VERME London School of Economics, UK