Review

"...an impressive and comprehensive book on a complex subject ... (It) will have use far beyond the developing countries... -- Andrew Wyckoff, head of the Economic Analysis and Statistics Division, Directorate of Science, OECD

"An impressive and comprehensive book on a complex subject . . . (It) will have use far beyond the developing countries for which it is primarily targeted." -- -Andrew Wyckoff, head of the Economic Analysis and Statistics Division, Directorate of Science, OECD

About the Author

Catherine L. Mann, Senior Fellow, held several posts at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (1984-87 and 1989-97), including Assistant Director and Special Assistant to the Staff Director, International Finance Division (1994-97). She was a Senior Economist on the Staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisors (1991-92), the principal staff member for the Chief Economist of the World Bank (1988-89), and a Ford Foundation Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (1987). She is an Adjunct Professor at the Owen School of Management at Vanderbilt University, and has also taught at the University of Chicago, Princeton University, University of Maryland, Georgetown, Boston College, and MIT. She has written numerous articles on international trade and finance, publishing in the American Economic Review, Journal of International Money and Finance, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, and International Economy, among other journals and volumes. She is the author of Is the U.S. Trade Deficit Sustainable? (1999).

Sue E. Eckert, Visiting Fellow, is Research Fellow at he Thomas J. Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. From 1993 to 1997, she was Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration, where her responsibilities included US export control, non-proliferation, technology transfer policies, economic sanctions, and defense trade and industrial base programs. Prior to service in the Executive Branch, she was a member of the professional staff of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, specializing in international trade issues. Her current research focuses on barriers to US exports and issues affecting high-tech industries, including electronic commerce.

Sarah Cleeland Knight is Director of E-Commerce Strategy at HomeTies.net, an Internet startup. Previously, she researched electronic commerce issues at the Institute for International Economics and worked with USDA's export promotion program and the international trade office of Seattle Chamber of Commerce. She has performed several in-country assessments of electronic commerce readiness, including work in Morocco as part of the Presidential Initiative on Internet for Economic Development. She is a graduate of the Masters in Foreign Service Program at Georgetown University.