Harald Sander is Associate Professor of Economics at Maastricht School of Management and has been affiliated with the Institute for Development and Peace, University of Duisburg and the Institute for Development Theory and Development Policy, University of Bochum. His research and publications cover the international and macroeconomic aspects of global financial and trade developments with special reference to developing countries. András Inotai is General Director of the Institute for World Economics in Budapest, Hungary. He has also worked for the World Bank’s Trade Policy Division. Among his major fields of research are the issues of economic integration of Central and Eastern Europe into the European Union and the world economy, and the reform of the Hungarian economic policy. The Development and Peace Foundation was set up in 1986, on the initiative of Willy Brandt, with the aim of highlighting the links between development and peace and of encouraging appropriate political initiatives. It seeks to foster understanding and equity between peoples and states, to facilitate cooperations and development, and to improve awareness of global interconnections in the developed world and beyond. The Foundation regularly commissions authors to write books about issues which are in keeping with their objectives.