| Volume 14 Number 2 August 1999 |
| COEDITORS Shanta Devarajan, Gershon Feder |
| EDITORIAL BOARD Angus Deacon (Princeton University); Barry Eichengreen (University of California-Berkeley); Howard Pack (University of Pennsylvania); Paul Collier, Eliana A. Cardoso, Gregory K. Ingram, Emmanuel Jimenez, Michel Walton, Shahid Yusuf |
| CONSULTING EDITOR Elinor Berg |
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