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Ravi Kanbur is the T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs and professor of economics at Cornell University (USA). He has taught previously at Oxford, Cambridge, Essex and Warwick universities (UK) and at Princeton University (USA), and he has served on the staff of the World Bank, including as Chief Economist for Africa.

Anthony J. Venables is Chief Economist in the UK Department for International Development and Professor of International economics at the London School of Economics (UK). He also directs the globalization programme at the LSE Centre for Economic Performance and is a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (UK). He works in the areas of international trade, economic integration and economic geography.

Guanghua Wan is a senior research fellow and project director at UNU-WIDER in Helsinki (Finland). He has published extensively on China's economy, particularly on rural development. Previously, he taught at the University of New England and the University of Sydney (Australia).