ABOUT THE AUTHORS



Douglas Southgate is a professor at Ohio State University and
Jorge Elgegren recently completed his M.S. in environmental
economics at University College London.  Mr. Elgegren carried out
the research, on which this case study is based, while a student
at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, in Quito,
Ecuador.  His advisor was Dr. Southgate, who held a Joint Career
Corps appointment with USAID at the time.