Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this issue. The World's Largest Humanitarian Agency: The Transformation of the UN World Food Programme and of Food Aid. By D. John Shaw. Monetary Policy and Financial Sector Reform in Africa: Ghana's Experience. By Mahamudu Bawumia.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Congo Masquerade: The Political Culture of Aid Inefficiency and Reform Failure. By Theodore Trefon. African Conflicts and Informal Power: Big Men and Networks. Edited by M. Utas. The Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier. By Edward Glaeser. Living Through Crises. How the Food, Fuel and Financial Shocks Affect the Poor. Edited by Rasmus Heltberg, Naomi Hossain and Anna Reva. Delivering Aid Differently. Lessons from the Field. Edited by Wolfgang Fengler and Homi Kharas. Reshaping Agriculture for Nutrition and Health. Edited by Shenggen Fan and Rajul Pandya‐Lorch.     

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Books reviewed: Alison Van Rooy (ed.), Civil Society and the Aid Industry Nelson Kasfir (ed.), Civil Society and Democracy in Africa: A Critical Perspective Lennart Wohlgemuth, Jerker Carlsson, and Henock Kifle (eds.), Institution Building and Leadership in Africa John H. Dunning (ed.), Globalization, Trade and Foreign Direct Investment László Halpern and Charles Wyplosz (eds.), Hungary: Towards a Market Economy Dieter Weiss and Ulrich Wurzel, The Economics and Politics of Transition to an Open Market Economy: Egypt Howard White (ed.), Aid and Macroeconomic Performance: Theory, Empirical Evidence and Four Country Cases Judith Randel, Tony German, and Deborah Ewing (eds.), The Reality of Aid 1998-1999: An Independent Review of Poverty Reduction and Development Assistance Shekhar Mehta, Sudipto Mundle, and U. Sankar, Controlling Pollution: Incentives and Regulations Gang Tian, Shanghai’s Role in the Economic Development of China, Reform of Foreign Trade and Investment The East Asian Institute, Money and Finance in Hong Kong: Retrospect and Prospect The East Asian Institute, China’s Economy and the Asian Financial Crisis Roderick MacFarquhar, The Origins of the Cultural Revolution: 3. The Coming of the Cataclysm, 1961-1966 Eva Cheung Robinson, Greening at the Grassroots: Alternative Forestry Strategies in India Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, From Zaire to the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Retrospect and Prospect     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: International Financial Centres I: Concepts, Development and Dynamics. Edited by Richard Roberts III: International Financial Centres of Europe, North America and Asia. Edited by Richard Roberts From Adjustment to Development in Africa: Conflict, Controversy, Convergence, Consensus? Edited by G. A. Cornia and G. K. Helleinera Science in Participatory Development: The Achievements and Dilemmas of a Development Movement – The Case of Kerala. By Mathew Zachariah and R. Sooryamoorthy Feeding and Greening the World: The Role of International Agricultural Research. By Derek Tribe     

New Voices in Defence of Aid

Book reviewed in this article: Foreign Aid Reconsidered. By Roger C. Riddell. Overseas Aid: Its Defence and Reform. By Paul Mosley. Missed Opportunities: Britain and the Third World. By Charles Elliott et al.     

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.     

The Insurgent Pedagogues: Bowles and Gintis In The Classroom

Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life, by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976, 340 pp. R7,20 (paperback).     

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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: 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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Globalisation in Historical Perspective. Edited by Michael D. Bordo, Alan M. Taylor and Jeffrey G. Williamson Global Shaping and its Alternatives. Edited by Yildiz Atasoy and William K. Carroll Tapping the Market: The Challenge of Institutional Reform in the Urban Water Sector. By Andrew Nickson and Richard Franceys Managing Natural Resources for Sustainable Livelihoods: Uniting Science and Participation. Edited by Barry Pound, Sieglinde Snapp, Cynthia McDougall and Ann Braun Improving Adult Literacy Outcomes: Lessons from Cognitive Research for Developing Countries. By Helen Abadzi     

Organizational transformation among NGOs,North and South

Going Global: Transforming Relief and Development NGOs, by Marc Linberg and Coralie Bryant. Bloomfield, Conn.: Kumarian Press, 2001. 271 pp., $25.95 cloth. Towards Financial Self‐Reliance: A Handbook of Resource Mobilization for Civil Society Organizations in the South, by Richard Holloway. London: Earthscan, 2001. 233 pp., $25.00 cloth.     

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Political and Economic Liberalisation in Zambia 1991–2001. By Lise Rakner Ghana: Long‐term Growth, Atrophy and Stunted Recovery. By J. Clark Leith and Ludvig Söderling Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development. Edited by Stanley L. Engerman, Philip T. Hoffman, Jean‐Laurent Rosenthal, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff Selling China: Foreign Direct Investment during the Reform Era. By Yasheng Huang Gender and Education for All: The Leap to Equality – EFA Global Monitoring Report 2003/4 The State of the World's Children 2004: Girls, Education and Development     

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Book reviewed in this article: Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community. Thomas A. Lyson Welfare Reform in West Virginia, by Robert Jay Dilger, Eleanor H. Blakely, Melissa Latimer, Barry L. Locke, F. Carson Mencken, L. Christopher Plein, Lucinda A. Potter, and David Williams. Labor and the Environmental Movement: The Quest for Common Ground. by Brian K. Obach. Agricultura y Sociedad en el Cambio de Siglo (Agriculture and Society at the Turn of the Century), edited by Cristóbal Gómez Benito and Juan Jesús González.     

Improving financial management

Financial Management for Nonprofit Human Service Organizations, 2nd ed., by Raymond Sanchez Mayers. Spring.eld, Ill.: Charles C Thomas, 2004. 354 pp., $79.95 cloth, $55.95 paper.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Women, Development, and the UN: A Sixty‐Year Quest for Equality and Justice. By Devaki Jain Investment Climate, Growth and Poverty: Berlin Workshop Series. Edited by G. Kochendorfer‐Lucius and B. Pleskovic The African Food Crisis: Lessons from the Asian Green Revolution. Edited by Göran Djurfeldt, Hans Holmén, Magnus Jirström and Rolf Larsson Global Crises, Global Solutions. Edited by Bjorn Lomborg Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Venturing Abroad in the Age of Globalisation. Edited by Robert Kloosterman and Jan Rath Guaranteeing Development? The Impact of Financial Guarantees. By James Winpenny Literacy for Life: EFA Global Monitoring Report 2006. By UNESCO     

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: Charles Antaki and Sue Widdicombe (eds.)., Identities in Talk Tove Skutnab‐Kangas, Linguistic Genocide in Education–or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights? Marnie Holborow, The Politics of English: A Marxist View of Language Clare Mar‐Molinero, The Spanish Speaking World: A Practical Introduction to Sociolinguistic Issues Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe (eds.), Global Literacies and the World‐Wide‐Web Justine Coupland (ed.), Small Talk Francesca Bargiela‐Chiappini and Catherine Nickerson (eds.)., Writing Business: Genres, Media and Discourses Geoffrey Lewis, The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success Kenneth J. Gergen, An Invitation to Social Construction James Milroy and Lesley Milroy, Authority in Language: Investigating Standard English Linda Thomas and Sha¨n Wareing, Language, Society and Power: An Introduction     

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Yujiro Hayami, Development Economics: From the Poverty to the Wealth of Nations John Dixon and David Macarov (eds.), Poverty: A Persistent Global Reality Santosh Mehrotra and Richard Jolly (eds.), Development with a Human Face: Experiences in Social Achievement and Economic Growth Neil Middleton and Phil O’Keefe, Disaster andDevelopment: The Politics of Humanitarian Aid Nancy Birdsall and Frederick Jaspersen (eds.), Pathwaysto Growth: Comparing East Asia and Latin America Jan Joost Teunissen (ed.), Regional Integration andMultilateral Co-operation in the Global Economy Jan Joost Teunissen (ed.), The Policy Challenges ofGlobal Financial Integration Dirk Messner, The Network Society. Economic Development andInternational Competitiveness as Problems of Social Governance A.K.B. Asante, Regionalism and Africa’s Development:Expectations, Reality and Challenges Gunmar M. Sørbø and Peter Vale (eds.), Out of Conflict.From War to Peace in Africa Sarath Rajapatirana, Trade Policies in Latin Americaand the Caribbean: Priorities, Progress and Prospects Terje Tvedt, Angels of Mercy or Development Diplomats? NGOs and Foreign Aid Richard Grant and Jan Nijman (eds.), The Global Crisisin Foreign Aid Patricia Feeney, Accountable Aid. Local Participationin Major Projects Peter Strachan with Chris Peters, Empowering Communities. A Casebook from West Sudan Jacques B. Gelinas, Freedom from Debt: The Reeappropriation of Development through Financial Self-Reliance Aili Mari Tripp, Changing the Rules. The Politics of Liberalizationand the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania Michael Kaufman and Haroldo Dilla Alfonso (eds.), Community Power and Grassroots Democracy: The Transformation of Social Life J.E. Michael Arnold and Peter A. Dewees (eds.), Farms, Trees and Farmers Diana Carney and John Farrington, Natural Resources Management and Institutional Change A. Dorward, J. Kydd and C. Poulton, (eds.), SmallholderCash Crop Production Under Market Liberalisation Donald Q. Innis, Intercropping and the Scientific Basis ofTraditional Agriculture Keith Tribe (ed.), Economic Careers: Economics and Economists in Britain 1930-70     

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SAMHSA Budget: Good News for BG and Prevention, but New Insurance Tap North Dakota Center Hopes State Will Shore Up Financial Picture SA‐MH Integration in LA: People with COD Come First Cape Cod Times Series Focuses on Opioids, Insurance Problems Glitches and Still No Parity for Health Care Reform Obamacare: ‘Navigators’ are Replacing Insurance Brokers State News Coming up     

Book Reviews

Women's Work Is Never Done: Comparative Studies in Care‐Giving, Employment, and Social Policy Reform. Sylvia Bashevkin. (Ed.) Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging. Margaret Cruikshank. How Families Still Matter: A Longitudinal Study of Youth in Two Generations. Vern L. Bengtson, Timothy J. Biblarz, & Robert E. L. Roberts. New Family Values: Liberty, Equality, Diversity. Karen Struening. Involved Fathering and Men's Adult Development: Provisional Balances. Rob Palkovitz. For Better and for Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well‐Being of Children and Families. Greg J. Duncan & P. Lindsay Chase‐Lansdale. (Eds.) The Power of Good Deeds: Privileged Women and the Social Reproduction of the Upper Class. Diana Kendall. Child Care and Inequality: Rethinking Carework for Children and Youth. Francesca M. Cancian, Demie Kurz, Andrew S. London, Rebecca Reviere, & Mary C. Tuominen.