Richard M. Auty is Reader in Geography at Lancaster University. A former consultant to the World Bank, UNCTAD, HIID, and KIET, he has also been Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, the Harvard Institute for International Development, and the Research Program in Development Studies at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton. Raymond F. Mikesell is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Oregon.