SUNDER RAMASWAMY, Professor and Chair of Economics at Middlebury College, is coauthor of The Economics of Agricultural Technology in Semiarid Sub-Saharan Africa (1997) and Economics: An Honors Companion (1995). JEFFREY W. CASON, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of International Studies at Middlebury College, is coauthor of Overseas Research (1997) and coeditor of Development at a Crossroads (1998).