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

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

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Book reviewed in this article: The 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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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     

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

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

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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: 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     

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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     

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Books reviewed: Paul Streeten, Globalisation: Threat or Opportunity? D. John Shaw, International Development Co‐operation: Selected Essays by H.W. Singer on Aid and the United Nations System. N.S.S. Narayana, Economic Policy and State Intervention: Selected Papers of T.N. Srinivasan. Martin Khor, Rethinking Globalization: Critical Issues and Policy Choices. William Easterly, The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics. Angus Maddison, The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective. Masahiko Aoki and Yujiro Hayami, Communities and Markets in Economic Development. Sheila Page and Adrian Hewitt, World Commodity Prices: Still a Problem for Developing Countries? J. McMahon, Trade and Agriculture: Negotiating a New Agreement? Chris Reij and Ann Waters‐Bayer, Farmer Innovation in Africa: A Source of Inspiration for Agricultural Development. J.S. Shortle and D.G. Abler, Environmental Policies for Agricultural Pollution Control. Robert Tripp, Seed Provision and Agricultural Development. Dorothy L. Hodgson, Rethinking Pastoralism in Africa: Gender, Culture, and the Myth of the Patriarchal Pastoralist. Shepard Forman and Patrick Stewart, Good Intentions: Pledges of Aid for Postconflict Recovery. Joanna Macrae, Aiding Recovery? The Crisis of Aid in Chronic Political Emergencies. Adrian Wood, Raymond Apthorpe and John Borton, Evaluating International Humanitarian Action: Reflections from Practitioners. Ondine Barrow and Michael Jennings, The Charitable Impulse: NGOs and Development in East and North‐East Africa. Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly and Thomas G. Weiss Ahead of the Curve? UN Ideas and Global Challenges. Carolyn Long, Participation of the Poor in Development Initiatives. Willem van Genugten and Camilo Perez‐Bustillo, The Poverty of Rights: Human Rights and the Eradication of Poverty. Stephen Devereux and Simon Maxwell, Food Security in Sub‐Saharan Africa. Deborah Eade and Ernst Ligteringen, Debating Development: NGOs and the Future. Nick Johnstone and Libby Wood, Private Firms and Public Water: Realising Social and Environmental Objectives in Developing Countries. Eberhard Kienle, A Grand Delusion: Democracy and Economic Reform in Egypt. Atul Kohli, The Success of India's Democracy.     

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

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

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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.