Pundarik Mukhopadhaya is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Macquarie University, Australia. Dr Mukhopadhaya has published widely on income distribution analysis and various other issues in development economics. Some of his major publications have appeared in Journal of Contemporary Asia, Researches on Economic Inequality, Advances in Econometrics, Applied Economics, Journal on Income Distribution, Journal of Asian Economics, Asian Economics Journal, Journal of World Investment and Trade, Netherlands International Law Review, Oxford Development Studies and Economic Record. Dr Mukhopadhaya has also provided consultancy to UNESCO, the World Bank and WHO. G. Shantakumar is currently a consultant demographer and statistician. He was a statistician with Department of Statistics of the Government of Malaysia and was an academic (1970-2001) at the National University of Singapore. He obtained his PhD from the National University of Singapore in 1980. Dr Shantakumar has published widely with 12 books and monographs, 26 chapters in books, 24 papers in refereed journals, and 32 consultancy reports (in confidential domain), and 36 conference papers. His consultancy clientele includes various government ministries and agencies in Singapore, UNESCO, WHO at Manila, Singapore Airlines, Australian Meat and livestock Corporation, and other NGOs concerned with community development and self-help. Bhanoji Rao holds a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Singapore (now NUS). His teaching and research career included positions at the University of Singapore, National University of Singapore and the World Bank at Washington and Jakarta. He is currently Visiting Professor at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS. Prof Rao has also provided consultancy to Singapore Airlines, IBM-Singapore, IDRC–Canada, UNESCAP, the World Bank and most recently the Asian Development Bank, Manila. His publications included 17 books, 40 chapters in books, 62 papers in refereed journals and 14 monographs.