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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: Aid and Power: The World Bank and Policy-based Lending. By Paul Mosley, Jane Harrigan and John Toye Development Research: The Environmental Challenge. Edited by James T. Winpenny The Challenge to the South. Report of the South Commission Region to Region Co-operation Between Developed and Developing Countries: The Potential for Mini-NIEO. By Kimmo Kiljunen The Real Economy of Zaire. Edited by Janet MacGaffey Development and Democracy in the Third World. By Abbas Pourgerami Democracy, Dictatorship and Development: Economic Development in Selected Regimes of the Third World. By Georg Sørensen Quantitative Methods for Trade-Barrier Analysis. By Sam Laird and Alexander Yeats State Administered Rural Change: Agricultural Co-operatives in Rural Kenya. By Björn Gyllström The World Trading System at Risk. By Jagdish Bhagwati Japanese Economic Development: Theory and Practice. By Penelope Francks At the Desert's Edge. Oral Histories from the Sahel. Edited by Nigel Cross and Rhiannon Barker The Trade Trap: Poverty and the Global Commodity Markets. By Belinda Coote     

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Book reviewed in this article: The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics. Edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman Making Sense of Development: An Introduction to Classical and Contemporary Theories of Development and Their Application to Southeast Asia. By P.W. Preston OPEC and the Challenge of Development. Edited by Abdelkader Benamara and Sam Ifeagwu Unequal Exchange and the Evolution of the World System. By Kunibert Raffer The Less Developed Countries and the World Trading System. By Diana Tussie Europe and the International Division of Labour: EEC and the Third World. A Survey 6. Edited by Christopher Stevens and Joan Verloren van Themaat Developing with Foreign Investment. Edited by Vincent Cable and Bishnodat Promotion of Direct Investment in Developing Countries. Edited by Heinz Hauser Soviet Economic Assistance to the Less Developed Countries: A Statistical Analysis. By Quintin V.S. Bach Agrarian Struggles in India after Independence. Edited by A.R. Desai The Failure of the International Debt Strategy. By Knud Erik Svendsen Life After Debt: Australia and the Global Debt Crisis. By the Australian Council for Overseas Aid Options and Investment Priorities in Irrigation Development. By Jose Olivares Involuntary Resettlement in Development Projects. By M. Cernea     

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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: 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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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: 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: 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: 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 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: Values for the Environment: A Guide to Economic Appraisal. By J. T. Winpenny. Raising and Sustaining Productivity of Smallholder Farming Systems in the Tropics – A Handbook of Sustainable Agricultural Development. By Willem C. Beets. Alkmaar: Export Instability and Compensatory Financing. By David Lim. European Integration: Trade and Industry. Edited by L. Alan Winters and Anthony Venables. State of the World, 1991: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress toward a Sustainable Society. By Lester R. Brown et al. Dictionary of Environment and Development. By Andy Crump. Water: The International Crisis. By Robin Clarke. Economics of Protected Areas: A New Look at Benefits and Costs. By John A. Dixon and Paul B. Sherman. Costing the Earth. By Frances Cairncross. The Soviet Far East: Geographical Perspectives on Development. Edited by Allan Rodgers The Economies of Small: Appropriate Technology in a Changing World. By Raphael Kaplinsky. Social Security in Developing Countries. Edited by Ehtisham Ahmad, Jean Drèze, John Hills and Amartya Sen. Strategic Partnerships and the World Economy. Edited by Lynn K. Mytelka. Income Distribution in Less Developed Countries. By R. M. Sundrum. Unwelcome Harvest: Agriculture and Pollution. Edited by Gordon R. Conway and Jules N. Pretty. Reaching the Top: Women Managers in Eastern and Southern Africa. By Laketch Dirasse. Arusha Seasonality and the Developing World: A Problem of the Poor and Powerless. By Gerard J. Gill. Famine and Survival Strategies. A Case Study from Northern Ethiopia. By Dessalegn Rahmato. British Overseas Aid since 1979: Between Idealism and Self Interest. Edited by Anuradha Bose and Peter Burnell.     

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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: Perspectives on European Development Co‐operation: Policy and Performance of Individual Donor Countries and the EU. Edited by Paul Hoebink and Olav Stokke Economic Development and UN Reform: Towards a Common Agenda for Action – A Proposal in the Context of the Millennium Development Goals. By Carlos A. Magarinos Inclusive Citizenship: Meanings and Expressions. By Nalia Kabeer Chronic Poverty Report 2004–05 Economic Security for a Better World. By the ILO Socio‐Economic Security Programme European Migration: What Do We Know? Edited by Klaus F. Zimmerman The Millennium Development Goals and Migration. By Erica Usher Global Monitoring Report 2004: Policies and Actions for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals and Related Outcomes. By World Bank and IMF Staff Globalisation, Poverty and Inequality: Between a Rock and a Hard Place. By Raphael Kaplinsky Globalisation, ICT and Developing Nations: Challenges in the Information Age. By Sumit Roy Development Economics: From the Poverty to the Wealth of Nations. By Youjiro Hayami and Yoshihisa Godo Healing Wounds: How the International Research Centers of the CGIAR Help Rebuild Agriculture in Countries Affected by Conflicts and Natural Disasters. By Surendra Varma and Mark Winslow Agriculture, Environment and Human Welfare in West Asia and North Africa: The Search for Sustainability     

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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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Books reviewed in this article: Negotiating Trade: Developing Countries in the WTO and NAFTA. Edited by John S. Odell Managing the Challenges of WTO Participation: 45 Case Studies. Edited by Peter Gallagher, Patrick Low and Andrew L. Stoler A Radical History of Development Studies: Individuals, Institutions and Ideologies. Edited by Uma Kothari The Business of Projects: Managing Innovations in Complex Products and Systems. By Andrew Davies and Michael Hobday World Investment Report 2004: The Shift Towards Services. By the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Natural Resources and Economic Development. By B. Barbier The Broken Mosaic: For an Economics Beyond Equations. By Ladislau Dowbor ICTs and Indian Economic Development. Edited by A. Saith and M. Vijayabaskar Globalisation and the International Financial System: What's Wrong and What Can Be Done. By Peter Isard The Russian Far East: A Reference Guide for Conservation and Development. Edited by John Newell Capital and Collusion: The Political Logic of Global Economic Development. By Hilton Root The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir. By Fernando Henrique Cardoso with Brian Winter Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free Marketeers. By Javier Santiso Globalization, Politics and Financial Turmoil: Asia's Banking Crisis. By Shanker Satyanath     

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Book reviewed in this article: European Trade Policies and the Developing World. Edited by L. B. M. Mennes and Jacob Kol ASEAN and the EC: Trade in Tropical Agriculture Products. Edited by Rolf J. Langhammer and Hans Christoph Rieger Varieties of Stabilisation Experience: Towards Sensible Macroeconomics in the Third World. By Lance Taylor Development Administration and Aid in the Middle East. By Gerd Nonneman Commodity Policies: Problems and Prospects. By Alasdair I. MacBean and D. T. Nguyen Privatisation in Less Developed Countries. Edited by Paul Cook and Colin Kirkpatrick Potatoes: Production, Marketing and Programs for Developing Countries. By Douglas Horton Underground Crops: Long-term Trends in Production of Roots and Tubers. By Douglas Horton. Morrilton, AR Religion, Development and African Identity. Edited by Kirsten Holst Petersen Uppsala     

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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: 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 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 issue. Africa at a Turning Point? Growth, Aid and External Shocks. Edited by Delfin S. Go and John Page. Global Imbalances and Developing Countries: Remedies for a Failing International System. Edited by Jan Joost Teunissen and Age Akkerman. From Parastatals to Private Trade: Lessons from Asian Agriculture. Edited by Shahidur Rashid, Ashok Gulati and Ralph Cummings Jr. Funding Civil Society: Foreign Assistance and NGO Development in Russia. By Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom. International Trade and Labor Standards: A Proposal for Linkage. By Christian Barry and Sanjay G. Reddy.