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: 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.     

Books Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Precarious work, women, and the new economy: The challenge to legal norms. Edited by Judy FUDGE and Rosemary OWENS. Recent books: 2001–2004: les sortants de l'enseignement supérieur face au marché du travail. By Jean‐François GIRET Globalization, employment and income distribution in developing countries. Edited by Eddy LEE and Marco VIVARELLI. La huelga hoy en el derecho social comparado. Edited by Antonio MARZAL. Barcelona, J. M. Bosch Le principe du droit au travail: juridicité, signification et normativité. By Dominic ROUX. Le travail. Un marché pas comme les autres. By Jean VERCHERAND. Collection “Des Sociétés”. The other half of gender: Men's issues in development. Edited by Ian BANNON and Maria C. CORREIA. New ILO publications: Changing patterns in the world of work. Report of the Director‐General, International Labour Conference, 95th Session, 2006, Report I (C). The role of the ILO in technical cooperation: Promoting decent work through field and country programmes. International Labour Conference, 95th Session, 2006, Report VI. Decent working time: New trends, new issues. Edited by Jean‐Yves BOULIN, Michel LALLEMENT, Jon C. MESSENGER and François MICHON. Labour and social issues arising from problems of cross‐border mobility of international drivers in the road transport sector. Report for discussion at the Tripartite Meeting on Labour and Social Issues arising from Problems of Cross‐border Mobility of International Drivers in the Road Transport Sector. Sectoral Activities Programme. Merchants of labour. Edited by Christiane KUPTSCH. International Institute for Labour Studies. Social and labour implications of the increased use of advanced retail technologies. Report for discussion at the Tripartite Meeting on the Social and Labour Implications of the Increased Use of Advanced Retail Technologies. Sectoral Activities Programme. Violence at work. By Duncan CAMPBELL and Vittorio DI MARTINO.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Development Economics. Edited by Deepak Lal Providing Food Security for All. By Mohiuddin Alamgir and Poonam Arora Bangladesh Faces the Future. Edited by Koht Ole David Norbye Chile's Middle Class: A Struggle for Survival in the Face of Neoliberalism. By Larissa Lomnitz and Ana Melnick The Apartheid City and Beyond: Urbanization and Social Change in South Africa. Edited by D. M. Smith Urban and Regional Change in Southern Africa. Edited by D. Drakakis-Smith Malaysia – Sustaining Industrial Investment Momentum China – Towards Sustainable Industrial Growth The Greening of World Trade Issues. Edited by Kym Anderson and Richard Blackhurst Agricultural Extension: Worldwide Institutional Evolution and Forces for Change. Edited by D. J. Gustafson and W. M. Rivera Maasailand Ecology: Pastoralist Development and Wildlife Conservation in Ngorongoro, Tanzania. By K. M. Homewood and W. A. Rodgers Liberalization in the Process of Economic Development. Edited by Lawrence B. Krause and Kim Kihwan Elusive Development: From Dependence to Self-Reliance in the Arab Region. By Yusef A. Sayigh Conflict over Natural Resources in South-East Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Lim Teck Ghee and Mark J. Valencia     

Book Reviews

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

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. The International Labour Organization and the Quest for Social Justice, 1919–2009. By Gerry Rodgers, Eddy Lee, Lee Swepston and Jasmien Van Daele. More than Good Intentions: How a new economics is helping to solve global poverty. By Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel. Poor Economics: A radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty. By Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo. Political Economy of Climate Change. Edited by Thomas Tanner and Jeremy Allouche. Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict. By Janie L. Leatherman. The Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship in Agriculture and Rural Development. Edited by Gry Agnete Alsos, Sara Carter, Elisabet Ljunggren and Friederike Walker. Youth Employment in Africa: Harnessing the Power of the Private Sector to Create Sustainable Work Opportunities for Africa's Youth. By Ismail Radwan, Richard Sandall, Chioma Nwagboso, and Chukwuemeka Ugochukwu.     

Book Reviews

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     

Book Reviews

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     

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

Books reviewed in this issue. Growing Apart: Oil, Politics and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria. By Peter M. Lewis. The Politics of Aid: African Strategies for Dealing with Donors. Edited by Lindsay Whitfield. The Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform. By Catherine Weaver. Ethics in an Era of Globalization. Edited by M. S. Ronald Commers, Wim Vandekerckhove and An Verlinden. Eliminating Human Poverty: Macroeconomic and Social Policies for Equitable Growth. By Santosh Mehrotra and Enrique Delamonica. The Complexity of Decentralisation Reforms: An Analysis of the Spaces for Community Participation in the Education Sector in Cambodia. By Arnaldo Pellini. Fixing Fragile States: A New Paradigm for Development. By Seth D. Kaplan. China into Africa: Trade, Aid and Influence. Edited by Robert Rotberg.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Conditional Cash Transfers: Reducing Present and Future Poverty. By Ariel Fiszbein and Norbert Schady. The World of Child Labour: An Historical and Regional Survey. Edited by H. H. Hindman. Work After Globalization: Building Occupational Citizenship. By Guy Standing. Rights‐Based Approaches to Development: Exploring the Potential and Pitfalls. Edited by Sam Hickey and Diana Mitlin.     

Book Reviews

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: 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     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article: People and Plans. Essays on Urban Problems and Solutions.By Herbert J. Gans . The Structure of Community Power. Edited By Michael Aiken and Paul E. Mott . Ferdinand Töennies on Sociology: Pure, Applied, and Empirical. Selected Writings. Edited and with an Introduction by Werner J. Cahnman and Rudolf Heberle . Campus Power Struggle. Edited by Howard S. Becker . Kinship and Class: A Midwestern Study. By Bernard Farber . Social Relationships. By George J. Mc Call , Michal M. Mc Call , Norman K. Denzin , Gerald D. Suttles and Suzanne B. Kurth .     

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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     

Book Reviews

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

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: A World of Difference: A New Framework for Development Co-operation in the 1990s Solidarity Against Poverty. A Socialist Program from Holland. Edited by Nico Schrijver and C. Paulien van der Tempel Labour Transfer and Economic Development: Theoretical Perspectives and Case Studies from Iran. By Hassan Hakimian Theory and Practice in Plantation Agriculture: An Economic Review. By Mary Tiffen and Michael Mortimore Africa Beyond Famine. A Report to the Club of Rome. Edited by Aklilu Lemma and Pentti Malaska The Food Question: Profits versus People? Edited by Henry Bernstein et al. The Rise and Decline of the Nation-State. Edited by Michael Mann Literacy and Power – The Latin American Battleground. Edited by David Archer and Patrick Costello Development Dilemmas in Rural Thailand. By Philip Hirsch Promoting Private Enterprise in Developing Countries. Paris No Life Without Roots – Culture and Development. By Thierry G. Verhelst Biotechnology and the Future of World Agriculture. Edited by Henk Hobbelink Banking on the Rural Poor. By David S. Gibbons and Sukor Kasim Family, Household and Gender Relations in Latin America. Edited by Elizabeth Jelin Third World Cooperation: The Group of 77 in UNCTAD. By Marc Williams The GATT Uruguay Round: Effects on Developing Countries. By Sheila Page with Michael Davenport and Adrian Hewitt Macroeconomic Policies in an Interdependent World. Edited by Ralph C. Bryant, David A. Currie, Jacob A. Frenkel, Paul R. Masson and Richard Portes US–Mexican Industrial Integration: The Road to Free Trade. Edited by Sidney Weintraub with Luis Rubio F. and Alan D. Jones Philippines: The Land of Broken Promises. By James B. Goodno     

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: 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: 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.