CONTRIBUTORS Dr SUSANTHA GOONETILAKE is director of research. People's Bank, Sri Lanka. MEENA GUPTA teaches economics at Daulat Ram College, Delhi University. Rev Fr FRANCOIS HOUTART is professor of sociology at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. ^ JAGANATH PATHY is research scholar at the Centre for the Study Of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. G V RAO is an economic analyst in Goa. SHINGO SHIBA TA is director of the Alice Hers: Peace Fund, Tokyo, GOPAL SINGH is assistant professor in the department of political science^ Himachal Pradesh University, Simla. Dr MOHAN THAMPI is reader in English, Banaras Hindu University. Dr R L WALLI is in the department of political science. School of Social Sciences, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong,