This book was prepared by the Prospects Group in DEC and the Trade Group in PREM, with support and feedback from the Trade Group in Research Department of DEC, Development Economics Vice Presidency and the Bank’s operational units. The book was edited by Ataman Aksoy and John Beghin, with guidance from the former and current Chief Economists, Nicholas Stern and François Bourguignon, and the Director of the Prospects Group and the Trade Department, Uri Dadush.
Editors M. Ataman Aksoy has been working with the Development Prospects Group recently as principal author of the report on Developing Countries and Global Agricultural Trade. He retired from the Bank in 2003 as Economic Adviser to the Development Prospects Group.
John C. Beghin is Professor, and Martin Cole Endowed Chair for the Department of Economics and Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University in Ames. Contributors
John Baffes is Senior Economist in the Prospects Group of Development Economics at the World Bank in Washington, D.C.
Paul Brenton is Senior Economist in the Trade Department of the World Bank in Washington, D.C.
Tom Cox is Professor in the Agricultural and Applied Economics Department at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Ndiame Diop is Economist in the Trade Department of the World Bank in Washington, D.C.
Harry de Gorter is Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Spencer Henson is Professor of Economics in the Department of Agriculture, Economics, and Business at the University of Guelph in Canada.
Takako Ikezuki is Junior Professional Associate Economist in the Trade Department of the World Bank in Washington, D.C. 
Steven M. Jaffee is Senior Economist in the Trade Department of the World Bank in Washington, D.C.
Bryan Lewin is Consultant in the Agriculture and Rural Development Department of the World Bank in Washington, D.C.
Myles Mielke is Senior Commodity Specialist in Basic Foodstuffs Service at Commodities and Trade Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy. Donald O. Mitchell is Lead Economist in the Prospects Group of Development Economics at he World Bank in Washington, D.C. Cathy A. Roheim is Professor of Economics in the Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at the University of Rhode Island.
Mirvat Sewadeh is Consultant in the Trade Department of the World Bank in Washington, D.C.
Baris Sivri is Consultant in the Development Economics Group of the World Bank in Washington, D.C.
Dominique van der Mensbrugghe is Lead Economist in the Prospects Group of Development Economics at the World Bank in Washington, D.C.
Panos Varangis is Lead Economist in the Agriculture and Rural Development Department of the World Bank in Washington, D.C. Eric J. Wailes is the L. C. Carter Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness at University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Yong Zhu is a Research Associate in the Agricultural and Applied Economics Department at University of Wisconsin in Madison. 
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