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Book reviewed in this article: The Economic Theory of Agrarian Institutions. Edited by Pranab Bardhan Agricultural Pricing Policy for Developing Countries. Edited by J. W. Mellor and R. Ahmed Agricultural Pricing Policy in Africa. Edited by Charles Harvey Natural Gas: Governments and Oil Companies in the Third World. By Ann Davison Alternative Solutions to Developing-Country Debt Problems. Edited by R. Dornbusch, J. H. Makin and D. Zlowe Growing out of Debt. Edited by Adrian Hewitt and Bowen Wells The World Economy in the 20th Century. By Angus Maddison Issues and Developments in International Trade Policy. By Margaret Kelly, Naheed Kirmani, Miranda Xafa, Clemens Boonekamp and Peter Wingle Sub-Saharan Africa: From Crisis to Sustainable Growth. A Long-Term Perspective Study. Washington Seed Planning and Policy for Agricultural Production. By A. Fenwick Kelly Comparative Advantage, Trade Policy and Economic Development. By Bela Balassa New Directions in the World Economy. By Bela Balassa Natural Endowments: Financing Resource Conservation for Development. By the World Resources Institute Gabon: The Development of a Nation. By Marc Aicardi de Saint-Paul Fragile Coalitions: the Politics of Economic Adjustment. Edited by Joan M. Nelson Policy Reform and Equity: Extending the Benefits of Development. Edited by Elliot Berg Comparative Advantage and Growth: Trade and Development in Theory and Practice. By H. D. Evans Economics, Natural Resource Scarcity and Development: Conventional and Alternative Views. By Edward B. Barbier Seasonal Variability in Third World Agriculture: the Consequences for Food Security. Edited by D. E. Sahn     

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Book reviewed in this 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: 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: 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: 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     

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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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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: 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     

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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     

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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.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Dynamics in Farming System: Changes in the Time and Space in Sukumaland, Tanzania. By H.C.C. Meertens, L. J. Ndege, and H.J. Enserink. Liberalised Development in Tanzania. Edited by Peter Gibbon. Gender, Family and Household in Tanzania. Edited by Colin Creighton and C.K. Omari. Community Empowerment: A Reader in Participation and Development. Edited by Gary Craig and Marjorie Mayo. Managing to Empower: The Grameen Bank's Experience of Poverty Alleviation. By Susan Holcombe. Participatory Development Tool Kit: Materials to Facilitate Community Empowerment. By Deepa Narayan and Lyra Srinivasan. Gender and Slum Culture in Urban Asia. By Susanne Thorbek. Women and Empowerment: Participation and Decision Making. By Marilee Karl. The Oxfam Gender Training Manual. By Suzanne Williams with Jan Seed and Adelina Mwau. The Third World in Global Environmental Politics. By Marian Miller. Westernizing the Third World: The Eurocentricity of Economic Development Theories. By Ozay Mehmet. The Politics of Global Atmospheric Change. By Ian H. Rowlands. Economic Progress and the Environment: One Developing Country's Policy Crisis. By Douglas Southgate and Morris Whitaker. Survival in the Sahel: An Ecological and Developmental Challenge. Edited by K.M. Leisinger, K. Schmitt and ISNAR. States and Economic Development: A Comparative Historical Analysis. By Linda Weiss and John M. Hobson. Manufacturing for Export in the Developing World: Problems and Possibilities. Edited by G.K. Helleiner.     

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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     

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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: 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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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: 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: OPEC and the World Oil Market: The Genesis of the 1986 Price Crisis. Papers by Contributors to the Oxford Energy Seminar. Edited by Robert Mabro. Protection and Industrial Policy in Europe. By Joan Pearce and John Sutton with Roy Batchelor. Agribusiness and Rural Enterprise. By B.H. Kinsey. World Trade and Trade Finance. Edited by Joseph Jude Norton. Agricultural Price Policy and Income Distribution in India. By Alain de Janvry and K. Subbarao. Strategies for African Development. Edited by Robert Berg and Jennifer Whitaker. Capitalism and Agriculture in the Haouz of Marrakesh. By Paul Pascon (edited by John R. Hall and translated by C. Edwin Vaughan and Veronique Ingman). Tanzania: Crisis and Struggle for Survival. Edited by J. Boesen, K. Havnevik, J. Koponen and R. Odgaard. Mozambique: A Dream Undone. The Political Economy of Democracy, 1975–84. By Bertil Egerö. Africa's Crisis and the Church in Britain. A Report prepared for the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales by an ad hoc committee under the Chairmanship of Bishop Anthony Hitchen. Economic Effects of Sanctions on Southern Africa. By J.P. Hayes. Geography of Gender in the Third World. Edited by Janet H. Momsen and Janet Townsend. Creating Rural Employment. By B.H. Kinsey. Muddling Through in Madagascar. By Dervla Murphy. The Specialized Agencies and the United Nations: The System in Crisis. By Douglas Williams (with a Foreword by Sir Anthony Parsons). Myths and Reality of External Constraints on Development. By James Riedel. Migration to Shashemene: Ethnicity, Gender and Occupation in Urban Ethiopia. By Gunilla Bjeren. Migration and Development: Dependence on South Africa — A Study of Lesotho. By Gabriele Winai Strom. Rural Vulnerability to Famine in Ethiopia: 1958–1977. By Mesfin Wolde Mariam. Pressure Groups, Policies and Development: EEC and the Third World. Survey No. 5. Edited by Christopher Stevens and Joan Verloren van Themaat.     

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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: 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: Approaches to Development Studies: Essays in Honour of Athole Mackintosh. Edited by Ian Livingstone. Rich Country Interests and Third World Development. Edited by Robert Cassen, Richard Jolly, John Sewell and Robert Wood. Management of Pastoral Development in the Third World. By Stephen Sandford. Managing Agricultural Systems. By G. E. Dalton. Planning Development Projects. By G. A. Bridger and J. T. Winpenny. Religion and Politics in Muslim Society. By Akbar S. Ahmed. EEC and the Third World: A Survey 4: Renegotiating Lomé. Edited by Christopher Stevens. The International Politics of Surplus Capacity — Competition for Market Shares in the World Recession. The Theory of International Trade. By Ali M. El-Agraa.