Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Economics for the Wilds: Wildlife, Wildlands, Diversity and Development. Edited by Timothy M. Swanson and Edward B. Barbier Economics of Environmental Conservation: Economics for Environmental and Ecological Management. By Clement A. Tisdell Development in Theory and Practice: Bridging the Gap. Jan Knippers Black Changing Uganda. Edited by Holger Bernt Hansen and Michael Twaddle Project Rehabilitation in Developing Countries. Edited by Colin Kirkpatrick Evaluating Development Assistance-Policies and Performance. Edited by Olav Stokke Evaluating Development Assistance-Approaches and Methods. Edited by Lodewijk Berlage and Olav Stokke Gender and Population in the Adjustment of African Economies: Planning for Change. By Ingrid Palmer Rural Households in Emerging Societies: Technology and Change in sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Margaret Haswell and Diana Hunt Empowerment: The Politics of Alternative Development. By John Friedmann Intermediary NGOs: The Supporting Link in Grassroots Development. By Thomas Carroll Women and the World Economic Crisis. By Jeanne Vickers     

Book Reviews

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     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Political Economy of Policy Reform in Developing Countries. By Anne O. Krueger The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World. By Stephen Castles and Mark J. Miller Oil Trade: Politics and Prospects. By J. E. Hartshorn Range Ecology at Disequilibrium. Edited by Roy Behnke, Jr. Ian Scoones and Carol Kerven Debt, Adjustment and Poverty in Developing Countries: Vol 1. National and International Dimensions of Debt and Adjustment in Developing Countries; Vol. II. The Impact of Debt and Adjustment at the Household Level in Developing Countries. By David Woodward Dignity and Daily Bread: New Forms of Economic Organising Among Poor Women in the Third World and the First. Edited by Sheila Rowbotham and Swasti Mitter Women in Developing Economies: Making Visible the Invisible. Edited by Joycelin Massiah Women and Change in the Caribbean. Edited by Janet H. Momsen Where Women are Leaders: the SEWA Movement in India. By Kalima Rose The Many Faces of National Security in the Arab World. Edited by Baghat Korany, Paul Noble and Rex Bryden The Middle East and Problems of Democracy. By Heather Deegan Cultivating Knowledge: Genetic Diversity, Farmer Experimentation and Crop Research. [Edited by] Walter de Boef, Kojo Amanor and Kate Wellard, with Anthony Bebbington Development Projects as Policy Experiments: An Adaptive Approach to Development Administration. By Dennis A. Rondinelli     

Book Reviews

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     

Book Reviews

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     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Building Decent Societies: Rethinking the Role of Social Security in Development. Edited by Peter Townsend. Trade, Poverty and the Environment: The EU, Cotonou and the African‐Caribbean‐Pacific Bloc. By Adrian Flint. Reconstructing Development Theory: International Inequality, Institutional Reform and Social Emancipation. By E. A. Brett.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Manufacturing Africa: Performance and Prospects of Seven Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa: Botswana, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe. By Roger C. Riddell with Peter Coughlin, Charles Harvey, Igor Karmiloff, Stephen Lewis Jr and Jennifer Sharpley Industry in Developing Countries: Theory, Policy and Evidence. By John Weiss Europe: 1992 and the Developing World. By Michael Davenport with Sheila Page Women in the Japanese Workplace. By Mary Saso After the Green Revolution: Sustainable Agriculture for Development. By G. R. Conway and E. B. Barbier The Third World Directory: A Guide to Organisations Working for Third World Development. By Shirley Giles Agricultural Policies for the 1990s. By S. Aziz Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development. By Vandana Shiva A Reaction Too Far: Economic Theory and the Role of the State in Developing Countries. By Tony Killick The World in Need of Leadership: Tomorrow's United Nations. By Brian Urquhart and Erskine Childers Political Economy in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Maxine Berg International Current Awareness Services: Economics and Related Disciplines Public Policy and Economic Development: Essays in Honour of Ian Little. Edited by Maurice Scott and Deepak Lal. Regional Integration among Developing Countries. By Rolf J. Langhammer and Ulrich Hiemenz     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Shaping Competitive Advantages: Conceptual Framework and the Korean Approach. By Wolfgang Hillebrand Systemic Competitiveness: New Governance Patterns for Industrial Development. By Klaus Esser, Wolfgang Hillebrand, Dirk Messner and Jörg Meyer-Stamer New Approaches to Poverty Analysis and Policy: A Contribution to the World Summit for Social Development I. The Poverty Agenda and the ILO: Issues for Research and Action. Edited by Gerry Rodgers II. Reducing Poverty through Labour Market Policies. Edited by José B. Figueiredo and Zafar Shaheed A New Wave of Foreign Direct Investment in Asia. Compiled by Nomura Research Institute and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Traders in a Brave New World: The Uruguay Round and the Future of the International Trading System. By Ernest Preeg Famine Early Warning and Response: The Missing Link. By Margaret Buchanan-Smith and Susanna Davies The Alms Bazaar: Altruism Under Fire – Non-Profit Organizations and International Development. By Ian Smillie Urban Health in Developing Countries: Progress and Prospects. Edited by Trudy Harpham and Marcel Tanner Overseas Aid Motivations: The Economics of Australia's Bilateral Aid. By Rukmani Gounder Coping with Capital Surges: The Return of Finance to Latin America. Edited by Ricardo Ffrench-Davis and Stephany Griffith-Jones Indonesia: The Political Economy of Energy. By Philip Barnes Democracy, Development and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India. By Ashutosh Varshney Exporting Africa: Technology, Trade and Industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Samuel M. Wangwe A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism. By Gregg Easterbrook     

Book Reviews

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     

Book Reviews

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     

Book Reviews

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     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Does Aid Work in India? A Country Study of the Impact of Official Development Assistance. By Michael Lipton and John Toye The Lords of Poverty: the Freewheeling Lifestyles, Power, Prestige and Corruption of the Multi-billion Dollar Aid Business. By Graham Hancock Real Aid: What Europe Can Do. By the Independent Group on British Aid Soviet Regional Economic Policy: The East-West Debate Over Pacific Siberian Development. By Jonathan R. Schiffer Debt, Stabilization and Development: Essays in Memory of Carlos Diaz-Alejandro. Edited by Guillermo Calvo, Ronald Findlay, Pentti Kouri and Jorge Braga de Macedo Debt, Adjustment and Recovery: Latin America's Prospects for Growth and Development. Edited by Sebastian Edwards and Felipe Larrain The Political Economy of Namibia: An Annotated Critical Bibliography. By Tore Linne Eriksen with Richard Moorsom Economic Theories of Development: An Analysis of Competing Paradigms. By Diana Hunt Democracy and Development in Latin America: Economics, Politics and Religion in the Postwar Period. By David Lehmann The Competitive Advantage of Nations. By Michael Porter Labeur et Rareté. By Fabio R. Fiallo     

Book Reviews

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.     

Book Reviews

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.     

Book Reviews

Development Planning and Poverty Reduction. Edited by David Potts, Patrick Ryan and Anna Toner Global Civil Society? By John Keane Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. By Paul Farmer, with a foreword by Amartya Sen Developing Capacity Through Technical Cooperation: Country Experiences. Edited by Stephen Browne Understanding Environmental Policy Processes: Cases from Africa. By James Keeley and Ian Scoones Imagine There's No Country: Poverty, Inequality and Growth in the Era of Globalisation. By Surjit S. Bhalla Developing Agricultural Trade: New Roles for Government in Poor Countries. By Michael Hubbard Reintegrating India with the World Economy. By T. N. Srinivasan and Suresh D. Tendulkar The IMF and Economic Development. By James Raymond Vreeland Uniting a Divided City: Governance and Social Exclusion in Johannesburg. By Jo Beall, Owen Crankshaw and Susan Parnell Poverty in America: A Handbook. By John Iceland Corporate Capitalism in Contemporary South Asia: Conventional Wisdoms and South Asian Realities. Edited by Ananya Mukherjee Reed     

Book Reviews

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     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: State Policies and Internal Migration: Studies in Market and Planted Economics. (An ILO-WEP study.) Edited by A.S. Oberai. The Management of the World Economy. By Evan Luard. Agriculture, Poverty and Freedom in Developing Countries. By Eric Clayton. International Capital Movements. Edited by John Black and John H. Dunning. General Equilibrium Models for Development Policy. By Kemal Dervis, Jaime de Melo and Sherman Robinson. Multinational Corporations, Technology and Employment. By Edward K.Y. Chen. Inequalising Trade? By John Spraos. Manual for Training in Rural Development Planning. By Hiran D. Dias and B.W.E. Wickramanayake. Planning for Agricultural Development. By J.A. Mollett.     

Book Reviews

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     

Book Reviews

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.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this issue. Agricultural Research at the Crossroads: Revisited Resource‐poor Farmers and the Millennium Development Goals. By Bo M. I. Bengtsson. The Future Control of Food: A Guide to International Negotiations and Rules on Intellectual Property, Biodiversity and Food Security. Edited by Geoff Tansey and Tasmin Rajotte. Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Economic Development. Edited by Benjamin Powell. Can NGOs Make a Difference? The Challenge of Development Alternatives. Edited by Anthony J. Bebbington, Samuel Hickey and Diana C. Mitlin. Democracy and Revolution: Latin America and Socialism Today. By D. L. Raby. Towards Full and Decent Employment. Edited by José Antonio Ocampo and K. S. Jomo.