WILLIAM ASCHER is Professor of Public Policy Studies and Political Science
at Duke University, and Director of Duke's Sanford Institute of Public Policy.
His research covers policy making in developing countries, natural-resource
policy making, Latin American political economy, and forecasting. His books
include Scheming for the Poor: The Politics of Redistribution in Latin America
( 1984), Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries ( 1990), and two
books on political-economic forecasting. He was the project director of the
International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development.
He is currently writing a book on the political economy of policy failures in
managing the entire range of natural resources.

PAUL ENGLESBERG is Assistant Professor of Education at Pacific University, Forest
Grove, Oregon. Professor Englesberg taught at several universities in Taiwan and
China between 1981 and 1992. His research on Chinese education has included
studies of college student culture and the 1978 reforms in higher education.

LIN GAN is a lecturer at the Research Policy Institute, University of Lund, Sweden,
and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Science, Danish Technical University,
Denmark. In the past few years, Mr. Gan has conducted intensive field work and
research for the World Bank, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),
United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), and in China, especially on
the Global Environment Facility (GEF) policies and the financial transfer mecha-
nism and its influence on environmental policy in China.

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