Mike Artis is a professorial fellow of Economics, a co-Director of IPEG and Director of its Regional Economics Centre. He has recently held a Professorship at the European University Institute, Florence (1995-2003) and a George Fellowship at the Bank of England (January-July, 2005). Frederick Nixson is Professor of Development Economics in the School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester. Before coming to Manchester, he spent five years in East Africa. Since then he has worked extensively in a number of countries including Vietnam, Mongolia, India, China and more recently the Yemen. His main research interests are in the fields of industrialisation and trade policy, macroeconomic policy and pro-poor growth, privatisation and poverty alleviation and the history of development economics. He has worked as a consultant for a number of organisations, including the Asian Development Bank, UNDP and the EU. He has authored, co-authored and co-edited 15 books.