Agroindustrial project analysi

XPREFACEThe following colleagues gave generously of their time to readingdrafts of the manuscript and provided extremely useful comments:Walter Falcon, Stanford University Food Research Institute; RayGoldberg, Louis Wells, and George Lodge of the Harvard UniversityGraduate School of Business Administration; Robert Youker, PriceGittinger, and Gunter Koenig of EDI; Nancy Barry, World Bank;Kenneth Hoadley, Instituto Panamericano de Alta Direcci6n deEmpresas; Primitivo Zepeda Salazar, Banco de Mexico, GustavoEsteva, Comite Promotor de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Rural;and Ferruccio Accame, Jaime Romero, Frank Meissner, and HughSwartz of the Inter-American Development Bank. Samuel Yong,formerly of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, providedinvaluable research assistance in analyzing the food technologyaspects of the book.This book would not have been possible without the support ofthree institutions. The World Bank's EDI and the Training Divisionof the Inter-American Development Bank jointly sponsored theoriginal courses in agroindustrial project analysis and the subsequentdevelopment of the teaching materials. The Division of Researchof the Harvard University Graduate School of BusinessAdministration also provided support that enabled my finishing themanuscript.My thanks also go to Sara Hazel, Beverly Vidler, and RoseGiacobbe and her staff, who patiently and carefully typed andretyped the manuscript's many drafts. James E. McEuen edited themanuscript for publication. Raphael Blow prepared the charts,Christine Houle and Brian J. Svikhart managed production of thebook, Chris Jerome read and corrected proof, and Ralph Ward andJames Silvan indexed the text.To all of these individuals I express my warmest thanks. It is myhope that our collective effort will contribute to the development ofmore efficient, effective, and equitable agroindustrial projects in thedeveloping world.JAMES E. AUSTIN