DENNIS AUDET Organization for Economic Co-operation and Devepment (OECD), Paris, France ANTHONY BLACK Associate Professor and Director of the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa JEAN-JACQUES CHANARON CNRS Director, GATE, Université Louis Lumière, Lyons, France LALE DURUIZ Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey MICHEL FREYSSENET CNRS Director, GERPISA and CSU-IRESCO, Paris, France YEONG-HYUN KIM Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Ohio University, Ohio, USA MARIANO LAPLANE Professor of Economics, Universidade Estadual de Caompinas-UNICAMP, São Paulo, Brazil MARC LAUTIER Senior Lecturer in Economics, Université de Rouen, France JEAN-BERNARD LAYAN Reader in Economics, Montesquieu University, Bordeaux, France MIHOUB MEZOUAGHI Research Fellow, Institut de Recherches sur le Maghreb Contemporain, Tunis, Tunisia SAMSON MURADZIKWA Senior Lecturer, School of Economics, University of Capetown, South Africa FERNANDO SARTI Emeritus Professor, Hoshei University, and Professor, Tokaigakuen University, Yokohama, Japan ERIC THUN Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University, USA