E. Wayne Nafziger is University Distinguished Professor of Economics at Kansas State University. A noted authority on economic development, he is the author and editor of sixteen books, including the first three editions of this textbook, The Debt Crisis in Africa (1993) and the editor (with Frances Stewart and Raimo Vayrynen) of War, Hunger, and Displacement: The Origins of Humanitarian Emergencies, 2 volumes (2000).