Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century

DENNIS RODGERS is a senior research fellow in the Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI) at the University of Manchester, UK, where he leads their programme on "Urban Poverty and Conflict." He is also a research fellow at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, a visiting senior fellow in the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi, India, and previously taught at the London School of Economics (2000-7).


JO BEALL is Director of Education and Society at UNU-WIDER, and member of the executive board of the British Council. She was formerly Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, prior to which she was a professor of development studies at the London School of Economics, UK.


RAVI KANBUR is T.H Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor of Economics at Cornell University, USA. He has taught at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Essex, Warwick, Princeton and Columbia. He has served on the senior staff of the World Bank, including as Principal Adviser to the Chief Economist at the World Bank. He has also served as Director of the World Bank's World Development Report.