SABINA ALKIRE Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA RUTH ALSOP The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA SARA BERRY Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA CESAR CALVO University of Oxford, Oxford, UK ROBERT CHAMBERS University of Sussex, Brighton, UK STEFAN DERCON University of Oxford, Oxford, UK DAVID B. GRUSKY Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA DAVID HULME University of Manchester, Manchester, UK ANDY MCKAY University of Bath, Bath, UK MARCELO CÔRTES NERI Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Brazil; Brazilian Institute of Economics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil JOAQUINA PALOMAR LEVER Iberoamerican University, Mexico, DF, Mexico LINDA JANSEN VAN RENSBURG North-West University, South Africa ALICE SINDZINGRE National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, France; School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, UK H. SON HYUN International Poverty Centre, Brasilia, Brazil ERIK THORBECKE Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA MARCELO CASAL XEREZ Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Brazil; Brazilian Ministry of Finance, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil KIM A. WEEDEN Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA