M. Carmen Guisan University of Santiago(Spain) and Euro-American Association of Economic Development Studies   Faculty of Economics. Av. Xoan XXIII s/n Santiago de Compostela, Galicia 15782 Spain   mcarmen.guisan@usc.es   http://www.usc.es/economet/guisan2.htm   Biographical Sketch: Professor of Econometrics and Editor of the journals published by the Euro-American Association of Economic Development Studies. She is included in the ranking of Top 100 economists of the World, by number of readers, out of more than 60000 at Ideas. Repec, and is coordinator of a Blog of World Development with particular reference to Europe, North America and other OECD countries, and international cooperation for development. More information about publications at: http://www.usc.gal/economet/eaat.htm, and personal Website at: http://www.usc.gal/economet/guisan.htm She was born in Coruna (Galicia, Spain, 1947) and is Graduate and Master in Economics (Bilbao, Spain, 1970), Doctor in Economics (Santiago de Compostela, USC, Spain, 1975). She is Professor of Applied Econometrics at the USC, and a very active researcher and Dissertations Advisor. She has published many papers and articles on international development, many of them available at Ideas.Repec.   Primary Research Focus: Economic Development in European and American countries and regions, Cross-country Econometric Models and World Development   JEL Areas: O5 : Economywide Country Studies: General F0 : International Economics: General