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Book reviewed in this issue. Our Money, Our Responsibility: A Citizens' Guide to Monitoring Government Expenditures. By V. Ramkumar. World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms. By Thomas Pogge. Taxation and State‐Building in Developing Countries: Capacity and Consent. Edited by Deborah Brautigam, Odd‐Helge Fjeldstad and Mick Moore. Ethics of Global Development: Agency, Capability, and Deliberative Democracy. By David A. Crocker. An Introduction to Sustainable Development. By Peter P. Rogers, Kazi F. Jalal and John A. Boyd. The Current Negotiations in the WTO: Options, Opportunities and Risks for Developing Countries. By Bhagirath Lal Das. Commodity Prices and Development. Edited by S. Newton and R. Grynberg. WTO Negotiations on Agriculture and Developing Countries. By Anwarul Hoda and Ashok Gulati. Expanding Frontiers of Global Trade Rules: The Political Economy Dynamics of the International Trading System. By Nitya Nanda. Policy Windows and Livelihood Futures: Prospects for Poverty Reduction in Rural India. Edited by John Farrington, Priya Deshingkar, Craig Johnson and Daniel Start. Indigenous Routes: A Framework for Understanding Indigenous Migration. By Carlos Yescas Trujano. Migration and Remittances Factbook 2008. By the World Bank. Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest: Risk, Needs and Rights. Edited by Armando Barrientos and David Hulme. Growth Divergences: Explaining Differences in Economic Performance. Edited by José Antonio Ocampo, K. S. Jomo and Rob Vos. Sub‐Saharan Africa: Forging New Trade Links with Asia. By K. Carey, S. Gupta and U. Jacoby. The Least Developed Countries Report 2008: Growth, Poverty and the Terms of Development Partnership. Prepared by the UNCTAD Secretariat.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Rescuing the World Bank. Edited by Nancy Birdsall. The Birth of Development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organisation, and World Health Organisation Changed the World, 1945–1965. By Amy L. S. Staples. Visions of Development: Faith‐based Initiatives. Edited by Wendy Tyndale. International Migration Outlook: Annual Report 2006 (SOPEMI). By the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development. How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place. Edited by Bjorn Lomborg. Global Issues for Global Citizens: An Introduction to Key Development Challenges. Edited by Vinay Bhargava. Financial Dollarization: The Policy Agenda. Edited by Adrian Armas, Alain Ize and Eduardo Levy Yeyati. Beyond the Numbers: Understanding the Institutions for Monitoring Poverty Reduction Strategies. By Tara Bedi, Aline Coudouel, Marcus Cox, Markus Goldstein and Nigel Thornton. Foreign Aid: Diplomacy, Development, Domestic Politics. By Carol Lancaster. Making Aid Work. By A. V. Banerjee with A. H. Amsden; R. H. Bates; J. Bhagwati; A. Deaton and N. Stern. Food is Different: Why We Must Get the WTO Out of Agriculture. By Peter M. Rosset. Development Issues in Global Governance: Public‐private Partnership and Market Multilateralism. By Benedicte Bull and Desmond McNeill. Globalisation, Employment and Income Distribution in Developing Countries. Edited by Eddy Lee and Marco Vivarelli. Africa and Development Challenges in the New Millennium: The NEPAD Debate. Edited by J. O. Adesina, Yao Graham and A. Olukoshi. The Unsettled Land: State‐making and the Politics of Land in Zimbabwe, 1893–2003. By Jocelyn Alexander. Confronting New Realities: Reflections on Tanzania's Radical Transformation. By Juma V. Mwapachu. Roadmap to an ASEAN Economic Community. Edited by Dennis Hew. China's Limits to Growth: Greening State and Society. Edited by Peter Ho and Eduard B. Vermeer. The Political Economy of Asian Transition from Communism. By Sujian Guo. China and India: Learning From Each Other — Reforms and Policies for Sustained Growth. Edited by Jahangir Aziz, Steven Dunaway and Eswar Prasad.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Bread and Stones: Leadership and the Struggle to Reform the United Nations World Food Programme. By James Ingram. The IMF, World Bank and Policy Reform. Edited by Alberto Paloni and Marizio Zanardi. The Samaritan's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid. By C. C. Gibson, K. Andersson, E. Ostrom and Sujai Shivakumar. International Migration, Remittances and the Brain Drain. Edited by Ça?lar Özden and Maurice Schiff. Migrants’ Remittances and Development: Myths, Rhetoric and Realities. By Bhimal Ghosh. Global Migration and the World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and Performance. By Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson. National Security and Immigration: Policy Development in the United States and Western Europe Since 1945. By Christopher Rudolph. Human Development Report 2005: International Co‐operation at a Crossroads: Aid, Trade and Security in an Unequal World. By the United Nations Development Programme. Methods in Development Research: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. Edited by J. Holland and J. Campbell. The New Development Economics: After the Washington Consensus. Edited by K. S. Jomo and Ben Fine. Reflexive Governance For Sustainable Development. Edited by Jan‐Peter Voβ, Dierk Bauknecht and René Kemp. Participatory Citizenship: Identity, Exclusion, Inclusion. Edited by Ranjita Mohanty and Rajesh Tandon. Development Economics and Social Justice: Essays in Honour of Ian Livingstone. By Michael Tribe, John Thoburn and Richard Palmer‐Jones. Managing Change in Local Governance. Edited by Munawwar Alam and Andrew Nickson. Savannas and Dry Forests: Linking People with Nature. Edited by Layalaxshmi Mistry and Andrea Berardi.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Managing Third World Debt. Report of the Second Working Party established by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development. The Developing Country Debt Crisis. By David Lomax. Debt and Development Crises in Latin America: The End of An Illusion. By Stephany Griffith-Jones and Osvaldo Sunkel. The Common Agricultural Policy and the Less Developed Countries. By Alan Matthews. Strategic Trade Policy and the New International Economics. Edited by P.R. Krugman. Trade Policy, Protectionism and the Third World. By Michael Davenport. Changes on the Euphrates: Villagers, Townsmen and Employees in Northern Syria. By Annika Rabo. Agricultural Project Management: Monitoring and Control of Implementation. By Peter Smith. Food in Sub-Saharan AJrica. Edited by Art Hansen and Della E. McMillan. Accelerating Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by John W. Mellor, Christopher L. Delgado and Malcolm J. Blackie. Drought and Hunger in AJrica: Lknying Famine a Future. Edited by Michael H. Glantz. Agricultural Development in Southern Africa: Farm Household Economics and the Food Crisis. By Allan Low. World Recession and the Food Crisis in Africa. Edited by Peter Lawrence. Africa's Development Criris. By P. Ndegwa. Agrarian Change in Egypt: An Anatomy of Rural Poverty. By Samir Radwan and Eddy Lee. Swedish Development Aid in Perspective: Policies, Problems and Results since 1952. Edited by P. Fruhling. Agricultural Exports and Economic Growth — A Study of Botswana's Beef Indutry. By Michael Hubbard. The Guardian Third World Review: Voices from the South. Edited by Victoria Brittain and Michael Simmons. Rainwater Harvesting: The Collection of Rainfall and Runoff in Rural Areas. By Arnold Pacey with Adrian Cullis.     

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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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Free Trade: Myths, Reality and Alternatives. By Graham Dunkley. Agriculture and the WTO: Creating a Trading System for Development. Edited by Merlinda D. Ingco and John D. Nash. Competitiveness Strategy in Developing Countries: A Manual for Policy Analysis. Edited by Ganeshan Wignaraja. Ploughing Up The Farm: Neoliberalism, Modern Technology and the State of the World's Farmers. By Jerry Buckland. The Divergent Dynamics of Economic Growth: Studies in Adaptive Economizing, Technological Change, and Economic Development. By Richard H. Day. Survival for a Small Planet: The Sustainable Development Agenda. Edited by Tom Bigg. Measuring Sustainability: Learning from Doing. By Simon Bell and Stephen Morse. Structural Adjustment: The Policy Roots of Economic Crisis, Poverty and Inequality. By SAPRIN. Elusive Equity: Education Reform in Post‐Apartheid South Africa. By Edward B. Fiske and Helen F. Ladd. The Virtuous Vice: Globalization. Edited by Siamack Shojai and Robert Christopherson. Knowledge For Development? Comparing British, Japanese, Swedish and World Bank Aid. By Kenneth King and Simon McGrath. The Contemporary Caribbean. By Robert B. Potter, David Barker, Dennis Conway and Thomas Klak.     

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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: Class, Ethnicity and Democracy in Nigeria: the Failure of the First Republic. By Larry Diamond Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria: The Rise and Fall of the Second Republic. By Richard A. Joseph The Nigerian State: Political Economy, State, Class and Political System in the Post-Colonial Era. By William D. Graf The State and Rural Economic Transformation: the Case of the Punjab 1950–1985. By G. K. Chadha Popular Struggles in South Africa. Edited by William Cobbett and Robin Cohen After Apartheid: Renewal of the South African Economy. Edited by John Suckling and Landeg White The Enterprise Initiative - Promoting Growth in Developing Countries. By Peter Young India's International Payments Imbalances. By Neela Mukherjee Poverty, Policy, and Food Security in Southern Africa. Edited by Coralie Bryant The Gene Hunters: Biotechnology and the Scramble for Seeds. By Calestous Juma Squandering Eden: Africa at the Edge. By Mort Rosenblum and Doug Williamson Preventing Famine: Policies and Prospects for Africa. By Donald Curtis, Michael Hubbard and Andrew Shepherd Project Monitoring and Evaluation in Agriculture. By Dennis J. Casley and Krishna Kumar The Collection, Analysis, and Use of Monitoring and Evaluation Data. By Dennis J. Casley and Krishna Kumar Democracy in Developing Countries, Volume Two: Africa. Edited by Larry Diamond, Juan J. Linz and Seymour Martin Lipset Practical Economics for the Real Economist. By Peter Bowbrick Organizing Development Through Participation. Co-operative Organization and Services for Land Settlement. By Liam E. Pickett Women, Development and Change: The Third World Experience. Edited by M. Francis Abraham and P. Subhadra Abraham A Home Divided: Women and Income in the Third World, Edited by D. Dwyer and J. Bruce The Political Economy of Chinese Socialism. By Mark Selden World Resources, 1988–89, World Resources Institute     

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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: 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: World Inflation and the Developing Countries. By William R. Cline and associates Commodity Exports and Economic Development: The Commodity Problem and Policy in Developing Countries. By F.G. Adams and J.R. Behrman Real Aid: A Strategy for Britain. By Charles Elliott The Agrarian Question and Reformism in Latin America. By Alain de Janvry The World Bank and the Poor. By Aart van de Laar Multinational Corporations in the Political Economy of Kenya. By S.W. Langdon The Political Economy of Rural Development: Peasants, International Capital and the State. Edited by R.E. Galli Industrial Development and Migrant Labour. By Julian Laite Instability in Indian Agriculture in the Context of the New Technology. By Shakuntla Mehra Growth and Equity: Policies and Implementation in Indian Agriculture. By J.S. Sarma Bangladesh Development in Perspective. By Gilbert Etienne Sewing it Up — Coats Patons' Multinational Practices'. By Alan Sinclair About Understanding — Ideas and Observations on Cross-cultural Communication. By Andreas Fuglesang A New International Commodity Regime. Edited by Geoffrey Goodwin and James Mayall Commodities, Finance and Trade. Issues in North-South Negotiations. Edited by Arjun Sengupta The New Communist Third World. Edited by Peter Wiles Eastern Europe and The Third World. Edited by M. Radu     

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Book reviewed in this article: Dynamics in Farming System: Changes in the Time and Space in Sukumaland, Tanzania. By H.C.C. Meertens, L. J. Ndege, and H.J. Enserink. Liberalised Development in Tanzania. Edited by Peter Gibbon. Gender, Family and Household in Tanzania. Edited by Colin Creighton and C.K. Omari. Community Empowerment: A Reader in Participation and Development. Edited by Gary Craig and Marjorie Mayo. Managing to Empower: The Grameen Bank's Experience of Poverty Alleviation. By Susan Holcombe. Participatory Development Tool Kit: Materials to Facilitate Community Empowerment. By Deepa Narayan and Lyra Srinivasan. Gender and Slum Culture in Urban Asia. By Susanne Thorbek. Women and Empowerment: Participation and Decision Making. By Marilee Karl. The Oxfam Gender Training Manual. By Suzanne Williams with Jan Seed and Adelina Mwau. The Third World in Global Environmental Politics. By Marian Miller. Westernizing the Third World: The Eurocentricity of Economic Development Theories. By Ozay Mehmet. The Politics of Global Atmospheric Change. By Ian H. Rowlands. Economic Progress and the Environment: One Developing Country's Policy Crisis. By Douglas Southgate and Morris Whitaker. Survival in the Sahel: An Ecological and Developmental Challenge. Edited by K.M. Leisinger, K. Schmitt and ISNAR. States and Economic Development: A Comparative Historical Analysis. By Linda Weiss and John M. Hobson. Manufacturing for Export in the Developing World: Problems and Possibilities. Edited by G.K. Helleiner.     

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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: 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: 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: First World, Third World. By Sir William Ryrie. Developing Nations and the Politics of Global Integration. By Stephan Haggard The Politics of Population: Cairo 1994. By Stanley Johnson The Cambridge Survey of World Migration. Edited by Robin Cohen Multilateral Development Banks: An Assessment of their Financial Structures, Policies and Practices. By Percy S. Mistry Transforming Agrarian Economies: Opportunities Seized, Opportunities Missed. By Thomas P. Tomich, Peter Kilby, and Bruce F. Johnston A Guide to Social Analysis for Projects in Developing Countries. By the UK Overseas Development Administration Trade, Aid and Global Interdependence. By George Cho Social Development: The Developmental Perspective in Social Welfare. By James Midgley Trading with the Environment: Ecology, Economics, Institutions and Policy. By Thomas Andersson, Carl Folke, and Stefan Nyström Doctrines of Development. By M. P. Cowen and R. W. Shenton Informal Sector in India. Edited by P. M. Mathew Trade Policies and Developing Nations. By Anne O. Krueger Agriculture on the Road to Industrialization. Edited by John W. Mellor Improving Food Security: A Guide for Rural Development Managers. By Michael Hubbard Human Resources Development: Experiences, Interventions, Strategies. By T. V. Rao ASEAN and Korea: Emerging Issues in Trade and Investment Relations. Edited by Daljit Singh and Reza Y. Siregar     

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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: 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: Structuralist Macroeconomics: Applicable Models for the Third World. By Lance Taylor. Protectionism and Industrial Decline. By Vincent Cable. Development Aid: A Guide to Facts and Issues. By Leelananda de Silva. International Organizations: A Dictionary and Directory. By Giuseppe Schiavone. Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa. By Robert H. Bates. African Islands and Enclaves. Edited by Robin Cohen. The Economies of West Africa. By Douglas Rimmer. Government and Politics in Africa. By William Tordoff. Nigerian Foreign Policy: Alternative Perceptions and Projections. Edited by Timothy M. Shaw and Olajide Aluko. The Political Economy of African Foreign Policy. Edited by Timothy M. Shaw and Olajide Aluko. Farming Systems in the Nigerian Savanna: Research and Strategies for Development. By David W. Norman, Emmy B. Simmons and Henry M. Hayes. Liberal Democracy and the Labour Reserve in Southern Africa. By Jack Parson. A Survey of Workers' Education Activities in Zimbabwe, 1980–1981. By M. J. Matshazi and C. Tillfors. Population, Development and Income Distribution-A Modelling Approach. By R. Scott Moreland. The Nature of Public Enterprise. By V. V. Ramanadham. Public Enterprise in the Developing World. Edited by V. V. Ramanadham. London and Sydney: Croom Helm, 1984. The Economy of India. By V. N. Balasubramaniam. Between Dependency and Autonomy: India's Experience with the International Computer Industry. By Joseph M. Grieco. The Open Economy and the World Economy: A Textbook in International Economics. By John Williamson. International Organizations. By Clive Archer. Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux: Agricultural and Rural Impacts of the Lame Conventions Blacksmith, Baker, Roofing-sheet Maker…, Employment for Rural Women in Developing Countries. By Marilyn Carr. Small Business Promotion-Case Studies from Developing Countries. By Malcolm Harper and Kavil Ramachandran. Entrepreneurship for the Poor. By Malcolm Harper. Small Business in the Third World. By Malcolm Harper. The Social Cost of Small Families and Land Reform: A Case Study of the Wataita of Kenya. By George C. Mkangi. Burning Issues: Implementing Pilot Stoves Programmes: A Guide for Eastern Africa. By Stephen Joseph and Philip Hassrick. The New International Economic Order: An Overview. By P. N. Agarwala. Macroproject Development in the Third World: An Analysis of Transnational Partnerships. By Kathleen J. Murphy. National and International Aspects of Financial Policies in LDCs. Edited by Deena Khatkhate. Technology Choice and Change in Developing Countries: Internal and External Constraints. Edited by Barbara G. Lucas and Stephen Freedman. Social Psychology and Developing Countries. Edited by Frank Bladder. OAPEC: An International Organization for Economic Cooperation and an Instrument for Regional Integration. By Abdelkader Maachou. A Geography of the Third World. Contributors include John P. Dickenson. European Interests in ASEAN. By Stuart Harris and Brian Bridges. The Soviet Union and the Middle East in the 1980s: Opportunities, Constraints and Dilemmas. Edited by Mark V. Kauppi and R. Craig Nation. A line of Power. By Andrew Strathern.     

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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