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Book reviewed in this article: Foreign Investment in China under the Open Policy: The Experience of Hong Kong Companies. By John T. Thoburn, H. M. Leung, Esther Chau and S. H. Tang Investing in China: The Years of the Open Door Policy. By Richard Pomfret Cities and Development in the Third World. Edited by Robert B. Potter and Ademola T. Salau Economic and Political Incentives to Petroleum Exploration: Development in the Asia-Pacific Region. Edited by Jeremiah D. Lambert and Fereidun Fesharaki Extension Alternatives in Tropical Africa. By Jon Moris Economic Growth and Urbanization in Developing Areas. Edited by David Drakakis-Smith EC Trade Policy and the Third World: An Irish Perspective. By Alan Matthews     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Economic Theory of Agrarian Institutions. Edited by Pranab Bardhan Agricultural Pricing Policy for Developing Countries. Edited by J. W. Mellor and R. Ahmed Agricultural Pricing Policy in Africa. Edited by Charles Harvey Natural Gas: Governments and Oil Companies in the Third World. By Ann Davison Alternative Solutions to Developing-Country Debt Problems. Edited by R. Dornbusch, J. H. Makin and D. Zlowe Growing out of Debt. Edited by Adrian Hewitt and Bowen Wells The World Economy in the 20th Century. By Angus Maddison Issues and Developments in International Trade Policy. By Margaret Kelly, Naheed Kirmani, Miranda Xafa, Clemens Boonekamp and Peter Wingle Sub-Saharan Africa: From Crisis to Sustainable Growth. A Long-Term Perspective Study. Washington Seed Planning and Policy for Agricultural Production. By A. Fenwick Kelly Comparative Advantage, Trade Policy and Economic Development. By Bela Balassa New Directions in the World Economy. By Bela Balassa Natural Endowments: Financing Resource Conservation for Development. By the World Resources Institute Gabon: The Development of a Nation. By Marc Aicardi de Saint-Paul Fragile Coalitions: the Politics of Economic Adjustment. Edited by Joan M. Nelson Policy Reform and Equity: Extending the Benefits of Development. Edited by Elliot Berg Comparative Advantage and Growth: Trade and Development in Theory and Practice. By H. D. Evans Economics, Natural Resource Scarcity and Development: Conventional and Alternative Views. By Edward B. Barbier Seasonal Variability in Third World Agriculture: the Consequences for Food Security. Edited by D. E. Sahn     

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Book reviewed in this article: United States Development Assistance Policy: The Domestic Politics of Foreign Economic Aid. By Vernon W. Ruttan Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform 1978–1993. By Barry Naughton The Rise and Fall of Development Theory. By Colin Leys Non-Governmental Organizations and Rural Poverty Alleviation. By Roger C. Riddell and Mark Robinson, with John De Coninck, Ann Muir and Sarah White The North, the South and the Environment: Ecological Constraints and the Global Economy. Edited by V. Bhaskar and Andrew Glyn Industrialisation and Agricultural Surplus: A Comparative Study of Economic Development in Asia. By Massoud Karshenas Regional Trading Arrangements Among Developing Countries: The ASEAN Example. By Dean A. DeRosa Africa Now: People, Policies, Institutions. Edited by Stephen Ellis Dimensions of Development with Emphasis on Africa. Edited by Tekeste Negash and Lars Rudebeck The Underdevelopment of Development: Essays in Honor of Andre Gunder Frank. Edited by Sing C. Chew and Robert A. Denemark Promoting Development: Effective Global Institutions for the Twenty-first Century. Edited by Jo Marie Griesgraber and Bernhard G. Gunter Asian Economies in Transition: Reforming Centrally Planned Economies. By Richard Pomfret The Response: GATT and Global Free Trade. By Sir James Goldsmith Environmental Valuation: New Perspectives. Edited by K. G. Willis and J. T. Corkindale Full House: Reassessing the Earth's Population Carrying Capacity. By Lester R. Brown and Hal Kane Exchange Rate Parity for Trade and Development: Theory, Tests, and Case Studies. By Pan A. Yotopoulos IMF Programmes in Developing Countries: Design and Impact. By Tony Killick. Development Policy Studies series IMF Lending to Developing Countries: Issues and Evidence. By Graham Bird. Development Policy Studies series Economic Reforms and Poverty Alleviation in India. Edited by C. H. Hanumantha Rao and Hans Linnemann Moving to the Market: The World Bank in Transition. By Richard W. Richardson and Jonas A. Haralz Water and the Quest for Sustainable Development in the Ganges Valley. Edited by G. P. Chapman and M. Thompson The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development. Edited by John Harriss, Janet Hunter and Colin M. Lewis The New Struggle for Democracy in Africa. By John Wiseman Democratization in South Africa: The Elusive Social Contract. By Timothy D. Sisk Money-Go-Rounds: The Importance of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations for Women. Edited by Shirley Ardener and Sandra Berman Global Change, Regional Response: The New International Context of Development. Edited by Barbara Stallings     

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Book reviewed in this article: Foreign Trade Reforms and Development Strategy. Edited by Jean-Marc Fontaine Diverse Paths of Economic Development. By Richard Pomfret Making a Difference: NGOs and Development in a Changing World. Edited by Michael Edwards and David Hulme Institutional Development & NGOs in Africa: Policy Perspectives for European Development Agencies. By Alan Fowler, with Piers Campbell and Brian Pratt Poverty, Natural Resources, and Public Policy in Central America. By Sheldon Annis et al Structural Adjustment and African Women Farmers. Edited by Christina H. Gladwin The Second Economy in Tanzania. By T. L. Maliyamkono and M. S. D. Bagachwa The Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State. By Basil Davidson The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power. Edited by Wolfgang Sachs The Poverty of Nations: A Guide to the Debt Crisis – From Argentina to Zaire. Edited by Elmar Altvater, Kurt Hubner, Jochen Lorentzen and Raúl Rojas Desertified Grasslands: Their Biology and Management. Edited by G. P. Chapman South-South Trade in Global Development. By Elizabeth Parsan Women and the Environment. By Annabel Rodda Practising Development: Social Science Perspectives. Edited by Johan Pottier Structural Adjustment and the African Farmer. Edited by Alex Duncan and John Howell Promise and Power: the Life and Times of Robert McNamara. By Deborah Shapley The Conditions of Agricultural Growth: The Economics of Agrarian Change under Population Pressure. By Ester Boserup     

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Book reviewed in this article: Rethinking Development. Essays on Development and Southeast Asia. By P. W. Preston Food Aid: The Challenge and the Opportunity. By Hans Singer, John Wood and Tony Jennings Internal Migration and Urbanisation in Developing Countries. Findings from a Study of Ghana. By R. K. Kasanga and M. R. Avis Trade from Aid: A Guide to Opportunities from EEC Funding in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific. Edited by Carol Cosgrove and James McLeod The Arab Gulf States and Japan. Edited by Walid Sharif Changes in China. By Nora Stettner and Bert Oram Prospects for Africa. An Africa Review Group report Development Policies: Sociological Perspectives. Edited by Anthony Hall and James Midgley Macro-Policies for Appropriate Technology in Developing Countries. Edited by Frances Stewart Village Republics – Economic Conditions for Collective Action in South India. By Robert Wade The Women's Question and the Modes of Human Reproduction. An Analysis of a Tanzanian Village. By Uila Vuorela Women and Environment in the Third World: Alliance for the Future. By Irene Dankelman and Joan Davidson Peasant Economics: Farm Households and Agrarian Development. By Frank Ellis Deforestation: Social Dynamics in Watersheds and Mountain Ecosystems. Edited by J. Ives and D. C. Pitt Developing Countries in the GATT Legal System. By Robert E. Hudec Power from the People: Innovation, User Participation, and Forest Energy Development. By Matthew S. Gamser The State and Agricultural Development in Egypt since 1973. By Simon Commander     

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Book reviewed in this article: Mortgaging the Earth: The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment and the Crisis of Development. By Bruce Rich Agriculture, Projects and Development: Papers in Honour of David Edwards. Edited by J. D. MacArthur and J. Weiss The Economics of Project Appraisal and the Environment. Edited by John Weiss Rethinking Technical Cooperation: Reforms for Capacity Building in Africa. Co-ordinated by Elliot J. Berg World Food Aid: Experiences of Recipients and Donors. Edited by John Shaw and Edward Clay Making Democracy Work: A Framework for Macro Economic Policy in South Africa. By the Macro Economic Research Group (MERG) Challenging the Professions: Frontiers for Rural Development. By Robert Chambers Inquiry at the Grassroots. Edited by William Glade and Charles A. Reilly Sowing Beyond the State: NGOs and Seed Supply in Developing Countries. By Elizabeth Cromwell and Steve Wiggins with Sondra Wentzel The Politics of Global Debt. Edited by Stephen P. Riley Data for Agrarian Development. By C. D. Poate and P. F. Daplyn Participatory Rural Appraisal: Methodology and Applications. By Neela Mukherjee Exposed to Innumerable Delusions: Public Enterprise and State Power in Egypt, India, Mexico and Turkey. By John Waterbury Seed and Surplus: An Illustrated Guide to the World Food System. By Bertrand Delpeuch Indebted Development: Strategic Bargaining and Economic Adjustment in the Third World. By Howard P. Lehman Change in South Africa. Edited by J. E. Spence The Poverty of Nations: The Aid Dilemma at the Heart of Africa. By James Morton     

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Book reviewed in this article: Handbook of Development Economics (2 vols). Edited by Hollis Chenery and T. N. Srinivasan Trade, Finance and Developing Countries. Strategies and Constraints in the 1990s. By Sheila Page Third World Military Expenditure and Arms Production. By Robert E. Looney Third World Military Expenditure: Determinants and Implications. By Robert D. McKinlay Animal Power in Farming Systems. Edited by Paul Starkey and Fadel Ndiamé Animal Traction Directory: Africa. By Paul Starkey Animal-Drawn Wheled Toolcarriers: Perfected yet Rejected. By Paul Starkey Agricultural Mechanization and the Evolution of Farming Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. By Prabhu Pingali, Yves Bigot and Hans P. Binswanger Lexique de la colonisation française. By Jean Martin The State and Village Society. The Political Economy of Agricultural Development in Bangladesh. By Shakeeb Adnan Khan Policy and Practice in the Management of Tropical Watersheds. By Sir H. Charles Pereira Agriculture in Vanuatu: A Historical Review. By Barry Weightman Political Pawns: Refugees on the Thai-Kampuchean Border. By Josephine Reynell A Forest Journey: The Role of Wood in the Development of Civilization. By John Perlin The Enigma of Colonialism: British Policy in West Africa. By Anne Phillips Banking the Unbankable: Bringing Credit to the Poor. By Ibrahima Bakhoum, Harry Bhaskara, Chole Chimbano, Eduardo Marquez Gonzalez, Winnie Ogana, Hikloch Ogola, Ana-Maria Quinones, Jawadur Rahman, Najma Sadeque, Govindam Venkatramani and Mallika Wanigasundara Corruption, Development and Under development. By Robin Theobald Technology Systems for Small Farmers: Issues and Options. Edited by A. M. Kesseba Renewing the Earth: Development for a Sustainable Future: an Economic Perspective. By Seamus Cleary     

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Book reviewed in this article: Why Globalisation Works. By Martin Wolf Globalisation and the Future of the Welfare State. Edited by Miguel Glazer and Dietrich Rueschemeyer The Dynamics of Socio‐Economic Development: An Introduction. By Adam Szirmai Growth and Empowerment: Making Development Happen. By Nicholas Stern, Jean‐Jacques Dethier and F. Halsey‐Rogers The Ethics of Development. By Des Gasper UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice. By Thomas G. Weiss, Tatiana Carayannis, Louis Emmerij and Richard Jolly Post‐Conflict Development: Meeting New Challenges. Edited by Gerd Junne and Willemijn Verkoren Mind, Heart, and Soul in the Fight Against Poverty. By Katherine Marshall and Lucy Keough Small States in Transition: From Vulnerability to Competitiveness. By Ganesh Wignaraja, Marlon Lezama and David Joiner Geopolitics and the Post‐colonial: Rethinking North‐South Relations. By David Slater Migration, Development and Poverty Reduction. Economic Growth, Economic Performance and Welfare in South Asia. Edited by Raghbendra Jha Rural India Facing the 21st Century: Essays on Long Term Village Change and Recent Development Policy. Edited by Barbara Harriss‐White and S. Janakarajan The United States and the World Economy: Foreign Economic Policy for the Next Decade. Edited by C. Fred Bergsten International Environmental Law and Policy in Africa. Edited by Beatrice Chaytor and Kevin R. Gray Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice. By David Mosse The Frankenfood Myth: How Protest and Politics Threaten the Biotech Revolution. By Henry I. Miller and Gregory Conko     

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Book reviewed in this article: People, Plants and Patents. The Impact of Intellectual Property on Biodiversity, Conservation, Trade, and Rural Society. By the Crucible Group Biodiversity and Landscapes: A Paradox of Humanity. Edited by K. E. Chung Kim and R. Weaver The Flexible Economy: Causes and Consequences of the Adaptability of National Economies. Edited by Tony Killick Inducing Food Insecurity: Perspectives on Food Policies in Eastern and Southern Africa. Edited by M. A. Mohammed Salih How Developing Countries Trade: The Institutional Constraints. By Sheila Page Research with a View to Implementation. By D. J. Gouws Case Studies in Research with a View to Implementation. Edited by D. J. Gouws Energy Taxation and Economic Growth. By Adam Seymour and Robert Mabro Africa: The Challenge of Transformation. By Stephen McCarthy Privatisation Experiences in African and Asian Countries. Edited by Miene Pieter van Dijk and Nico G. Schulte Nordholt The Nile: Sharing a Scarce Resource. A Historical and Technical Review of Water Management and of Economic and Legal Issues. Edited by P. P. Howell and J. A. Allan Sharing the Ganges: the Politics and Technology of River Development. By Ben Crow, with Alan Lindquist and David Wilson Sociology, Anthropology and Development: An Annotated Bibliography of World Bank Publications 1975–1993. By Michael Cernea Third World Democratization? A Partly Annotated Bibliography of Recent Literature. By Svend Erik Lindberg-Hansen Finance for the Poor Man's Business. Edited by Maria Otero and Elizabeth Rhyne The Reality of Aid 1995. Edited by Judith Randel and Tony German GATT Uruguay Round, Developing Countries and Trade in Services. By Neela Mukherjee The Experience of Poverty: Fighting for Respect and Resources in Village India. By Tony Beck Introduction to Development Economics, 3rd edition. By Subrata Ghatak Privatisation Policy and Performance: International Perspectives. Edited by P. Cook and C. Kirkpatrick Countrysides at Risk, The Political Geography of Sustainable Agriculture. By R. L. Paarlberg Environment, Development, Agriculture: Integrated Policy through Human Ecology. By Bernhard Glaeser     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Poor in Asia: Productivity-Raising Programmes and Strategies. Edited by Swapna Mukhopadhyay. Development Policy Review Rural Development in India: A public Policy Approach. By S.R. Maheshwari. Export-Oriented Industrialisation: The ASEAN Experience. By Mohamed Ariff and Hal Hill. The Primary Source. Tropical Forests and Our Future. By Norman Myers. Forest Farming: Towards a Solution to Problems of World Hunger and Conservation. By J. Sholto Douglas and Robert A. de J. Hart. The Political Economy of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries. By Piers Blaikie. The Wheat Trap. By Gunilla Andrae and Bjorn Beckman. The IMF Policy Paradigm: The Macroeconomics of Stabilization, Structural Adjustment and Economic Development. By Wilfred L. David. The Third World in Transition — The Case of the Peasantry in Botswana. By Jan Hesselberg. Education Priorities and Aid Responses in sub-Saharan Africa. Report of a Conference at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, 4–7 December 1984. Edited by Hugh Hawes and Trevor Coombe with Carol Coombe and Kevin Lillis, Overseas Development Administration and University of London Institute of Education. Operation Flood. By Shanti George. Britain and Tanzania: The Search for Real Aid. Report for the Independent Group on British Aid. By Catherine Price. The Myth of the Information Revolution: Social and Ethical Implications of Communications Technology. Edited by Michael Traber.     

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Book reviewed in this article: OPEC and the World Oil Market: The Genesis of the 1986 Price Crisis. Papers by Contributors to the Oxford Energy Seminar. Edited by Robert Mabro. Protection and Industrial Policy in Europe. By Joan Pearce and John Sutton with Roy Batchelor. Agribusiness and Rural Enterprise. By B.H. Kinsey. World Trade and Trade Finance. Edited by Joseph Jude Norton. Agricultural Price Policy and Income Distribution in India. By Alain de Janvry and K. Subbarao. Strategies for African Development. Edited by Robert Berg and Jennifer Whitaker. Capitalism and Agriculture in the Haouz of Marrakesh. By Paul Pascon (edited by John R. Hall and translated by C. Edwin Vaughan and Veronique Ingman). Tanzania: Crisis and Struggle for Survival. Edited by J. Boesen, K. Havnevik, J. Koponen and R. Odgaard. Mozambique: A Dream Undone. The Political Economy of Democracy, 1975–84. By Bertil Egerö. Africa's Crisis and the Church in Britain. A Report prepared for the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales by an ad hoc committee under the Chairmanship of Bishop Anthony Hitchen. Economic Effects of Sanctions on Southern Africa. By J.P. Hayes. Geography of Gender in the Third World. Edited by Janet H. Momsen and Janet Townsend. Creating Rural Employment. By B.H. Kinsey. Muddling Through in Madagascar. By Dervla Murphy. The Specialized Agencies and the United Nations: The System in Crisis. By Douglas Williams (with a Foreword by Sir Anthony Parsons). Myths and Reality of External Constraints on Development. By James Riedel. Migration to Shashemene: Ethnicity, Gender and Occupation in Urban Ethiopia. By Gunilla Bjeren. Migration and Development: Dependence on South Africa — A Study of Lesotho. By Gabriele Winai Strom. Rural Vulnerability to Famine in Ethiopia: 1958–1977. By Mesfin Wolde Mariam. Pressure Groups, Policies and Development: EEC and the Third World. Survey No. 5. Edited by Christopher Stevens and Joan Verloren van Themaat.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Gender Planning and Development: Theory, Practice and Training. By Caroline O. N. Moser Reverse Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought. By Naila Kabeer Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development: Towards a Theoretical Synthesis. By Rosi Braidotti, Ewa Charkiewicz, Sabine Hausler and Saskia Wieringa Feminist Perspectives on Sustainable Development. Edited by Wendy Harcourt Population and Reproductive Rights: Feminist Perspectives from the South. By Sonia Correa (in collaboration with Rebecca Reichmann) Social Science Research for Agricultural Technology Development: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions. Edited by Karen Ann Dvořák Economic Interdependence in the Asia-Pacific Region: Towards a Yen Bloc. By C. H. Kwan Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture. By Peter Goering, Helena Norberg-Hodge and John Page Inter-nation Policy Co-ordination and Untying of Aid. By Catrinus J. Jepma Economic Crisis and Third World Agriculture. Edited by Ajit Singh and Hamid Tabatabai The Political Economy of Oil. By Sarah Ahmed Khan The Process of Development of Societies. By K. C. Alexander Market Forces and World Development. Edited by Renée Prendergast and Frances Stewart Gender, Work and Population in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Aderanti Adepoju and Christine Oppong Debt, Development and Equity in Africa. By Karamo N. M. Sonko Population and Development: Old Debates, New Conclusions. By Robert Cassen and contributors Crisis or Transition in Foreign Aid. Edited by Adrian Hewitt The Trap. By James Goldsmith Author's response to Stein Hansen's review of Mortgaging the Earth: The World Bank, Evironmental Impoverishment and the Crisis of Development. By Bruce Rich     

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Book reviewed in this article: China's Agricultural Modernization: The Socialist Mechanization Scheme. By On Kit Tam. Resources, Values and Development. By Amartya Sen. Putting People First: Sociological Variables in Rural Development. Edited by Michael M. Cernea. South East Asia. Essays in the Political Economy of Structural Change. Edited by R. Higgott and R. Robson. Does Aid Work? Report to an Intergovernmental Task Force. By Robert Cassen et al. Public Participation in Development Planning and Management. Edited by Jean-Claude García-Zamor. Turkey and the West. By David Barchard. Pakistan's Development Priorities: Choices for the Future. Edited by S.J. Burki and R. Laporte, Jr. Urbanisation and Planning in the Third World: Spatial Perceptions and Public Participation. By Robert B. Potter. European Interests in Latin America. By Esperanza Duran, Chatham House Papers 28. Agribusiness and the Small-scale Farmer — a Dynamic Partnership for Development. By Simon Williams and Ruth Kareh. Population Participation in Planning for Basic Needs Concepts, Methods and Practices. Edited by Franklyn Lisk.     

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Book reviewed in this article: India's Trade Policy and the Export Performance of Industry. By Pitou van Dijck and K. S. Chalpati Rao Redefining Conservatism: An Essay on the Bias in India's Economic Reform. By Narendar Pani India's Economic Future: Government, People and Attitudes. By V. V. Bhanoji Rao Miracle or Design? Lessons from the East Asian Experience. By Albert Fishlow, Catherine Gwin, Stephan Haggard, Dani Rodrik and Robert Wade The Political Economy of Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia. Edited by David Wurfel and Bruce Burton Africa's Multilateral Debt: A Modest Proposal. By the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development The New Frontier: Farmers' Response to Land Degradation - A West African Study. By Kojo Sebastian Amanor Economic Analysis of Environmental Impacts. By John A. Dixon, Louise Fallon Scura, Richard A. Carpenter, and Paul B. Sherman World Trade Reform: Do Developing Countries Gain or Lose? By Sheila Page and Michael Davenport     

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Book reviewed in this article: Ports as Nodal Points in a Global Transport System. Edited by Antony J. Dolman and Jan Van Ettinger Economic Stabilization and Debt in Developing Countries. By Richard N. Cooper Multinational Investment in Developing Countries: A Study of Taxation and Nationalization. By Thomas Anderson Improving Development Program Performance: Guidelines for Managers. By Derick W. Brinkerhoff Democracy, Governance and Economic Policy: Sub-Saharan Africa in Comparative Perspective. By John Healey and Mark Robinson Beyond Government: Organisations for Common Benefit. By Donald Curtis The Politics of Industrial Agriculture. By Tracey Clunies-Ross and Nicholas Hildyard Refashioning Nature: Food, Ecology and Culture. By David Goodman and Michael Redclift Population and Development in Poor Countries: Selected Essays. By Julian L. Simon Cities in the 1990s: The Challenge for Developing Countries. Edited by Nigel Harris Models of Unemployment in Trade and Economic Development. By B. H. Hazari and P. M Contrasting Styles of Industrial Reform: China and India in the 1980s. By George Rosen A Captive Land: The Politics of Agrarian Reform in the Philippines. By James Putzel. London: Catholic Institute for International Relations Learning from Gal Oya: Possibilities for Participatory Development and Post-Newtonian Social Science. By Norman Uphoff Japan's Global Reach. By Bill Emmott People First: A Guide to Self-Reliant Participatory Rural Development. By Stan Burkey The Decline of Community in Zinacantán: Economy, Public Life, and Social Stratification, 1960–1987. By Frank Cancian British Aid and International Trade: Aid Policy-making 1979-89. By Oliver Morrissey, Brian Smith and Edward Horesh     

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Book Reviewed in this issue. Global Trade and Poor Nations: The Poverty Impacts and Policy Implications of Liberalisation. Edited by B. M. Hoekman and M. Olarreaga. Globalization and Change in Asia. Edited by Dennis A. Rondinelli and John M. Heffron. Defining Poverty in the Developing World. By F. Stewart, R. Saith and B. Harriss‐White. Regulating Development: Evidence from Africa and Latin America. Edited by Amann Edmund. The Politics of Aid Selectivity: Good Governance Criteria in World Bank, US and Dutch Development Assistance. By Wil Hout. Good Governance and Development. By B. C. Smith. Decentralizing Governance: Emerging Concepts and Practices. Edited by G. Shabbir Cheema and Dennis A. Rondinelli. Mexican Immigration to the United States. Edited by George J. Borjas. National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report. Tools for Institutional, Political and Social Analysis of Policy Reform. By Jeremy Holland and the World Bank. Integrated Water Resources Management: Global Theory, Emerging Practice and Local Needs. Edited by Peter P. Mollinga, Ajaya Dixit and Kusum Athukorala. Sharing Power: A Global Guide to Collaborative Management of Natural Resources. By G. Borrini‐Feyerabend, Michel Pimbert, M. Taghi Farvar, Ashish Kothari and Yves Renardet. African Anthropologies: History, Critique and Practice. Edited by Mwenda Ntarangwi, David Mills and Mustafa Babiker.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Structural Adjustment and the Environment. Edited by David Reed, WWF-International South-South Trade Preferences: The GSTP and Trade in Manufactures. Edited by Hans Linnemann. Indo-Dutch Studies on Development Alternatives 9. New Delhi The Changing Geography of China. By Frank Leeming. Institute of British Geographers Studies in Geography The CGIAR in Transition: Implications for the Poor, Sustainability and the National Research Systems. By Helle Munk Ravnborg The Nature of Development – A Report from the Rural Tropics on the Quest for Sustainable Economic Growth. By Roger D. Stone Reformism and Revisionism in Africa's Political Economy in the 1990s: The Dialectics of Adjustment. By Timothy M. Shaw Liberalizing Tanzania's Food Trade: Public and Private Faces of Urban Marketing Policy 1939–1988. By Deborah Fahy Bryceson Technological Innovation and Third World Multinationals. By Paz Estrella E. Tolentino Instruments of Economic Policy in Africa. London and Dakar: James Currey with the African Centre for Monetary Studies and the Association of African Central Banks Debt-Conversion Schemes in Africa: Lessons from the Experience of Developing Countries. London and Dakar: James Currey with the Association of African Central Banks Going-it Alone: Female-headed Households, Rights and Resources in Rural Bangladesh. By David J. Lewis with Marion Glaser, J. Allister McGregor, Sarah C. White and Geoffrey D. Wood International Current Awareness Services (ICAS): Economics, Political Science, Anthropology, Sociology. Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science, London School of Economics The European Community and the Developing Countries. By Enzo R. Grilli Privatization and Liberalization in the Middle East. Edited by Iliya Harik and Denis J. Sullivan Economic Progress and Prospects in the Third World: Lessons of Development Experience since 1945. By H. W. Singer and Sumit Roy Trading with South Africa: The Policy Options for the EC. By Sheila Page and Christopher Stevens     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Political Economy of Underdevelopment. By Amiya Kumar Bagchi A New Concept of Development: Basic Tenets. By François Perroux Renewable Energy, The Power to Choose. By Daniel Dewdney and Christopher Flavin. New York: W.W. Norton Energy in the Transition from Rural Subsistence. Edited by Miguel S. Wionczek, Gerald Foley and Ariane van Buren Nuclear Power in Developing Countries: An Analysis of Decision Making. Edited by James Everett Katz and Onkar S. Marwah Namibia: Political and Economic Prospects. Edited by Robert I EEC and the Third World: A Survey 3: The Atlantic Rift. Edited by Christopher Stevens The Impact of Rising Oil Prices on the World Economy. Edited by Lars Mathiessen Industry and Accumulation in Africa. Edited by Martin Fransman Tanzania: An African Experiment. By R. Yeager Aquaculture Economics: Basic Concepts and Methods of Analysis. By Yung C. Shang. Boulder An Appraisal of OPEC Oil Policies. By Ali M. Jaidah The OPEC Fund for International Development: The Formative Years. By Ibrahim F. Shihata et al Interdependence in a World of Unequals: African-Arab-OECD Economic Cooperation for Development. Edited by Dunstan M. Wai The International Economy and Industrial Development: The Impact of Trade and Investment on the Third World. By Robert H. Ballance, Javed A. Ansari and Hans W. Singer US Foreign Aid: An Assessment of New and Traditional Development Strategies. By Elliott R. and Victoria A. Morss More for the Least? Prospects for Poorest Countries in the Eighties. By Thomas G. Weiss and Anthony Jennings Monetarism, Economic Crisis and the Third World. Edited by Karel Jansen A Bridge of People: A Personal View of Oxfam's First Forty Years. By Ben Whitaker Women in Tanzania: An Analytical Bibliography. By Orphelia Mascarenhas and Marjorie Mbilinyi Britons in Brussels. By Virginia Willis     

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Book reviewed in this article: Implementing Rural Development Projects. Edited by Elliott R. Morss and David D. Gow. Boulder Rural Project Management. By Vincent Austin. Guide to Social Assessment: A Framework for Assessing Social Change. By Kristi Branch, Douglas A. Hooper, James Thompson and James Creighton. Politics and Economics of External Debt Crisis: The Latin American Experience. Edited by Miguel S. Wionczek. Foreign Debt and Latin American Economic Development. Edited by Antonio Jorge, Jorge Salazar-Carillo and René P. Higonnet. Room for Manoeuvre: An Exploration of Public Policy in Agriculture and Rural Development. Edited by E. J. Clay and B. B. Schaffer. The Impending Crisis in Kenya: the Case for Land Reform. By Diana Hunt. Recurrent Costs and Agricultural Development. Edited by John Howell. Labelling in Development Policy: Essays in Honour of Bernard Schaffer. Edited by Geoff Wood. Bahrain and the Gulf. By Jeffrey Nugent and Theodore H. Thomas. UK Aid to African Agriculture. All Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development. Political Change and Underdevelopment: A Critical Introduction to Third World Politics. By Vicky Randall and Robin Theobald.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Economic Evaluation and the Environment. By Charles Cooper. Ecodevelopment. By Robert Riddell Explorations in Natural Resource Economics. Edited by V. Kerry Smith and John V. Krutilla. The Endless Day: Some Case Material on Asian Rural Women. Edited by T.S. Epstein and R. Watts. Village Women of Bangladesh: Prospect for Change. By T.A. Abdullah and S. Zeidenstein. Profiles in Female Poverty: A Study of Five Poor Working Women in Kerala. By Leela Gulati. International Economic Integration. Edited by Ali M. El-Agraa. David Livingstone Institute Series on Choice of Technique in Developing Countries. Edited by Eric Rahim. Vol. 1: Brewing in Developing Countries. By James Keddie and William Cleghorn. Vol. 2: Choice of Technique in Maize Milling. By S. J. Uhlig and B. A. Bhat. Vol. 3: Brick Manufacture in Developing Countries. By J. Keddie and W. Cleghorn. Vol. 4: Choice of Technique in Leather Manufacture. By M. M. Huq and H. Aragaw. Vol. 5: Choice of Technique in Bolt and Nut Manufacture. By N. S. McBain and S. J. Uhlig. Vol. 6: Choice of Technology in the Production of Cotton Cloth. By J. Pickett and R. Robson. Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation. By Amartya Sen. International Trade Regulation. By Edmond McGovern. RAMSES 1982, The State of the World Economy: Annual Report by the French Institute for International Relations. The Other Face of OPEC: Financial Assistance to the Third World. By Ibrahim F. I. Shihata. South-South Relations in a Changing World Order. Edited by Jerker Carlsson. Multinationals from Developing Countries. Edited by Krishna Kumar and Maxwell G. McLeod. Energy Planning for Developing Countries: A Study of Bangladesh. By R. J. de Lucia, H. D. Jacoby et al. Economic Development: An Introduction. By Clarence Zuvekas. Disparities in Economic Development Since the Industrial Revolution. Edited by Paul Bairoch and Maurice Levy-Leboyer. The Geography of Multinationals. Edited by Michael Taylor and Nigel Thrift.