viACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Shashank Ojha, Nimrod Raphaeli, Mahfouz Tadros, Ram Agarwala,
Khalid Siraj, Dan Ritchie, H. Kohli, Mark Baird, Randeep Sudan, Shaku
Gunaratne, Ian Scott, Chuck Zeigler, Helen Vazquez, Peter Scherer,
Robert Schware, Carl Dahlman, Oleg Petrov, Carlos Braga, Sandra
Sargent, Soniya Carvalho, and Miguel Schloss.
I owe debt to many senior policy makers and development prac-
titioners in developing countries so I only mention those from India
and Sri Lanka, the two country case studies: Milinda Moragoda, Eran
Wickramaratne, Sam Pitroda, R. Chandrasekhar, Satya Narayanan, F.
C. Kohli, K. Roy Paul, Saurabh Srivastava, N. Seshagiri, N. Vittal,
Dewang Mehta, Harish Mehta, Lalit Weeratunga, Manju Haththotuwa,
Reshan Dewapura, Jayantha Fernando, Wasantha Deshapriya, and Rohan
Samarajiva.
Among thought leaders and academics who influenced my thinking
I wish to mention: Vint Cerf, Richard Heeks, Robert Wade, Sandor
Boyson, Elias Carayannis, Carlota Perez, Ernest Wilson, Dani Rodrik,
Albert Hirschman, David Ellerman, Devish Kapur, Mike Porter, and
Gunnar Myrdal.
Special thanks to Palgrave’s editorial and Springer’s production teams
for quality work.
Not all of the above agree with my conclusions. I thank them all,
without implicating them.
Last but not least, I am indebted to my wife Linda, and son James
for bearing my absences while I spent disproportionate time at work and
away from home on field missions.