Gilles Dufrénot is a professor at Sciences Po Aix and a member of the Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France. He specializes in macroeconomic policies in emerging and developing countries and in econometrics applied to international economic problems. He has published numerous articles on these topics in various international journals.Kimiko Sugimoto is a professor at Konan University (Japan) and a specialist in developing and emerging countries in Asia and Africa. She has published numerous articles on monetary policy and monetary unions in these continents.