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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Altantsetseg Sodnomtseren is a social specialist whose studies focus on education, household living standards, and gender. Altantsetseg has provided leadership for a variety of academic and business organizations. She was president of the non-governmental organization Global Reach Center, head of International Affairs of the National University of Mongolia, and executive director of the Asia Research Center. She has served as team leader, researcher, and consultant for projects funded by the Asian Development Bank, European Union, Open Society Institute, Posco TJ Park Foundation, Toyota Foundation, and World Bank. Altantsetseg is now working as a project coordinator for the Bank-funded project “Strengthening the Capacity of the National Statistical System of Mongolia.” Andy Sumner is a research fellow in the Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction Team at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, and a visiting fellow at the Centre for Global Development in Washington, D.C. He is a cross-disciplinary economist who has done research relating to human well-being, inequality, and poverty, with particular focus on poverty concepts and indicators, global trends, and Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and post-MDG debates. He is a council member of the Development Studies Association (DSA) and the European Association of Development Institutes (EADI). In 2010, he contributed to the UNDP “MDG International Assessment” for the MDG summit and the Commission for Africa report “Still Our Common Interest.” He has published a number of books and articles and is series editor for Palgrave Macmillan’s “Rethinking International Development.” Most recently his research on the “new bottom billion” (or the 960 million poor people living in middleincome countries) has been covered by the Economist, Voice of America, Fox News, and the Guardian, and has informed the British Parliament’s International Development Committee’s inquiry into aid to India. Pamornrat Tansanguanwong is a social protection and development consultant at the World Bank Office in Bangkok. Her work includes community development in conflict-affected areas, and gender and social safety net issues. She received her master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in development studies and public policy. She has been collaborating with the Asian Research Centre for Migration since 2009. Josias Tebero is a Central African socio-anthropologist specializing in decentralization, development, and local government. He studied at the University of Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire, where he obtained a PhD. He has