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Jonathan Crush (ed.), Power of Development John Rapley, Understanding Development. Theory and Practice in the Third World Ankie Hoogvelt, Globalisation and the Postcolonial World. The New Political Economy of Development Sing C. Chew and Robert A. Denemark (eds), The Underdevelopment of Development. Essays in Honor of Andre Gunder Frank Barbara Stallings (ed.), Global Change, Regional Response. The New International Context of Change National Research Council, Lost Crops of Africa. Vol. I: Grains Barbara Harriss-White and Sir Raymond Hoffenberg (eds), Food. Multidisciplinary Perspectives Robert Cassen and contributors, Population and Development: Old Debates, New Conclusions Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling and Hans Landberg (eds), Population, Economic Development, and the Environment. The Making of Our Common Future Judith Richter, Vaccination Against Pregnancy. Miracle or Menace? Tim Allen (ed.), In Search of Cool Ground: War, Flight and Homecoming in Northeast Africa Ans Kolk, Forests in International Environmental Politics: International Organisations, NGOs and the Brazilian Amazon Judith Randel and Tony German (eds), The Reality of Aid 1997/98 Marie Söderberg (ed.), The Business of Japanese Foreign Aid: Five Case Studies from Asia. Douglas J. Tilton (edited by Jim Cason), USAID in South Africa: Learning Lessons, Continuing Debates Ricardo Ffrench-Davis and Stephany Griffith-Jones (eds), Coping with Capital Surges. The Return of Finance to Latin America Robert Z. Lawrence, Single World, Divided Nations? International Trade and OECD Labor Markets S. M. Wangwe (ed.), Exporting Africa. Technology, Trade and Industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa Amrita Chhachhi and Renée Pittin (eds), Confronting State, Capital and Patriarchy. Women Organizing in the Process of Industrialization Theo van der Loop, Industrial Dynamics and Fragmented Labour Markets: Construction Firms and Labourers in India     

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Books reviewed: Rist, Gilbert, The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith Diamond, Jared, Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years Tenner, Edward, Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences Yuval‐Davis, Nira, Gender and Nation Davison, Jean Gender, Lineage and Ethnicity in Southern Africa Owen, Margaret, A World of Widows Bandarage, Asoka, Women, Population and Global Crisis, A Political‐Economic Analysis National Research Council, Reproductive Health in Developing Countries. Expanding Dimensions, Building Solutions Stein, Jane, Empowerment and Women’s Health. Theory, Methods and Practice Cole, David C. and Huntington, Richard, Between a Swamp and a Hard Place: Developmental Challenges in Remote Rural Africa Farnham, Dana A. Plows, Prosperity and Cooperation at Agbassa: The Change from Hoes to Plows on a Government‐sponsored Land Settlement Project in Northern Togo Raynaut, Claude and contributors, Societies and Nature in the Sahel Cairns, Edmund, A Safer Future. Reducing the Human Cost of War Eade, Deborah (ed.), Development in States of War (selected articles from Development in Practice) Prendergast, John, Frontline Diplomacy. Humanitarian Aid and Conflict in Africa Chelliah, Raja J. and Sudarshan, R. (eds), Income Poverty and Beyond. Human Development in India Quibria, M. G. and Dowling J. Malcolm (eds), Current Issues in Economic Development. An Asian Perspective Clark, Cal and Roy, K. C.Comparing Development Patterns in Asia Teunissen, Jan Joost (ed.), Regionalism and the Global Economy. The Case of Central and Eastern Europe Watters, Ray and McGee, Terry (eds), New Geographies of the Pacific Rim: Asia‐Pacific Lavergne, Re´al (ed.), Regional Integration and Cooperation in West Africa. A Multidimensional Perspective     

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M. P. Cowen and R. W. Shenton, Doctrines of Development Peter W. Preston, Development Theory: An Introduction John Brohman, Popular Development: Rethinking the Theory and Practice of Development Stuart Corbridge (ed.), Development Studies: A Reader Development and Social Diversity—Development in Practice Readers Peter Willets (ed.), The Conscience of the World. The Influence of Non-Governmental Organisations in the UN System Patricia L. McCarney (ed.), Cities and Governance: New Directions in Latin America, Asia and Africa Robin Luckham and Gordon White (eds), Democratization in the South: The Jagged Wave Kunibert Raffer and Hans W. Singer, The Foreign Aid Business: Economic Assistance and Development Co-operation William Ryrie, First World, Third World Robert Z. Lawrence, Regionalism, Multilateralism, and Deeper Integration Robert Z. Lawrence, Albert Bressand and Takatoshi Ito, A Vision for the World Economy: Openness, Diversity, and Cohesion Jan Joost Teunissen (ed.), Regionalism and the Global Economy. The Case of Africa Lennart Petersson (ed.), Post-Apartheid Southern Africa: Economic Challenges and Policies for the Future Ben Fine and Zavareh Rustomjee, The Political Economy of South Africa: From Minerals-Energy Complex to Industrialisation Owen Crankshaw, Race, Class and the Changing Division of Labour under Apartheid Finn Tarp and Peter Brixen, The South African Economy: Macroeconomic Prospects for the Medium Term Deborah F. Bryceson (ed.), Women Wielding the Hoe: Lessons from Rural Africa for Feminist Theory and Development Practice Leif Manger with Hassan Abd el Ati, Sharif Harir, Knut Krzywinski, Ole R. Vetaas, Survival on Meagre Resources. Hadendowa Pastoralism in the Red Sea Hills Emmanuel Manzungu and Pieter van der Zaag (eds), The Practice of Smallholder Irrigation. Case Studies from Zimbabwe Margaret Hall and Tom Young, Confronting Leviathan. Mozambique since Independence David Murray, Angels and Devils. Thai Politics from February 1991 to September 1992—A Struggle for Democracy? Alan R. Kluver, Legitimating the Chinese Economic Reforms: A Rhetoric of Myth and Orthodoxy Walter Hatch and Kozo Yamamura, Asia in Japan's Embrace. Building a Regional Production Alliance Albert Berry (ed.), Poverty, Economic Reform and Income Distribution in Latin America Pieter de Vries, Unruly Clients in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica: A Study of How Bureaucrats Try and Fail to Transform Gatekeepers, Communists and Preachers into Ideal Beneficiaries Christine Barrow, The Family in the Caribbean: Themes and Perspectives Barbara Harriss-White, A Political Economy of Agricultural Markets in South India. Masters of the Countryside Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen, India. Economic Development and Social Opportunity     

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Book reviewed in this article: Barrington Moore, Jr, Authority and Inequality under Capitalism and Socialism: USA, USSR and China. Rhys Jenkins, Transnational Corporations and Uneven Development. The Internationalization of Capital and the Third World. Ashok Bapna (ed.), One World One Future: New International Strategies for Development. Michael Redclift, Sustainable Development: Exploring the Contradictions. D. K. Fieldhouse, Black Africa 1945–1980 Economic Decolonization and Arrested Development. Douglas C. Dacy, Foreign Aid, War and Economic Development: South Vietnam Shared S. Marathe, Regulation and Development: India's Policy Experience of Controls over Industry. Eduardo P. Archetti, Paul Cammack and Bryan Roberts (eds), Latin America, Sociology of ‘Developing Societies’ series. A. H. J. Helmsing, Firms, Farms and the State in Colombia. Esbern Friis-Hansen, Changes in Land Tenure and Land Use Since Villagization and their Impact on Peasant Agricultural Production in Tanzania. The Case of the Southern Highlands. Jeffrey Harrod, Power, Production and the Unprotected Worker. S. S. Jha, Structure of Urban Poverty: The Case of Bombay Slums. Janet H. Momsen and Janet Townsend (eds), Geography of Gender in the Third World. Emily Honig, Sisters and Strangers: Women in the shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919–1949.     

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Henry Bernstein and Tom Brass (eds), Agrarian Questions Max Spoor (ed.), The ‘Market Panacea’. Agrarian Transformation in Developing Countries and Former Socialist Economies Obadiah Mailafia, Europe and Economic Reform in Africa. Structural Adjustment and Economic Diplomacy Meine Pieter van Dijk and Sandro Sideri (eds), Multilateralism versus Regionalism: Trade Issues after the Uruguay Round Richard Grabowski and Michael P. Shields, Development Economics James M. Cypher and James L. Dietz, The Process of Economic Development John Harriss, Janet Hunter and Colin M. Lewis (eds), The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development Mats Lundahl and Benno J. Ndulu (eds), New Directions in Development Economics. Growth, Environmental Concerns, and Government in the 1990s Adrian Leftwich (ed.), Democracy and Development: Theory and Practice Patricia L. McCarney (ed.), The Changing Nature of Local Government in Developing Countries Michael Kaufman and Haroldo Dilla Alfonso (eds), Community Power and Grassroots Democracy Kim Scipes, KMU: Building Genuine Trade Unionism in the Philippines, 1980–1994 Isa Baud and Ines Smyth (eds), Searching for Security: Women's Responses to Economic Transformations Miriam Goheen, Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops: Gender and Power in the Cameroon Grassfields Ann Daniya Usher, Dams as Aid: A Political Anatomy of Nordic Development Thinking Idris S. Kikula, Policy Implications on Environment. The Case of Villagization in Tanzania Kenneth King, Jua Kali Kenya: Change and Development in an Informal Economy 1970–1995 Jürgen Rüland (ed.), The Dynamics of Metropolitan Management in Southeast Asia H. S. Geyer and T. M. Kontuly (eds), Differential Urbanization. Integrating Spatial Models Joshua M. Epstein and Robert L. Axtell, Growing Artificial Societies. Social Science from the Bottom Up Parviz Daneshvar, Revolution in Iran     

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Books reviewed: Ngaire Woods (ed.), The Political Economy of Globalization Alan Doig and Robin Theobald (eds), Corruption and Democratisation Rita Abrahamsen, Disciplining Democracy: Development Discourse and Good Governance in Africa Pierre Englebert, State Legitimacy and Development in Africa Clarck C. Gibson, Politicians and Poachers: The Political Economy of Wildlife Policy in Africa Mark Breusers, On the Move: Mobility, Land Use and Livelihood Practices on the Central Plateau in Burkina Faso James Ferguson, Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt Elisabeth Croll, Endangered Daughters. Discrimination and Development in Asia Arun Agrawal, Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets, and Community among a Migrant Pastoral People Evelyn Blackwood, Webs of Power: Kin and Community in a Sumatran Village Shirley A. White (ed.), The Art of Facilitating Participation: Releasing the Power of Grassroots Communication Bertus Haverkort and Wim Hiemstra (eds), Food for Thought: Ancient Visions and New Experiments of Rural People Barbara Harriss‐White and S. Subramanian (eds), Illfare in India. Essays on India’s Social Sector in Honour of S. Guhan     

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Peter de Valk, African Industry in Decline Jean-Pierre Lachaud, The Labour Market in Africa Holger Bernt Hansen and Michael Twaddle (eds), Religion and Politics in East Africa: The Period since Independence Timothy D. Sisk, Democratization in South Africa: The Elusive Social Contract Ashutosh Varshney, Democracy, Development and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India Nicolas Hall, Rob Hart and Diana Mitlin (eds), The Urban Opportunity: The Work of NGOs in Cities of the South Maggie Black, Children First. The Story of UNICEF, Past and Present Roger Jeffery and Alaka M. Basu (eds), Girls' Schooling, Women's Autonomy and Fertility Change in South Asia Louis Ouwerkerk (edited and with an introduction by Dick Kooiman), No Elephants for the Maharaja: Social and Political Change in the Princely State of Travancore (1921–1947) Anuradha Basu, Public Expenditure Decision Making: The Indian Experience Niels Hermes and Robert Lensink (eds), Financial Development and Economic Growth: Theory and Experiences from Developing Countries Frances Stewart, Adjustment and Poverty Justin Yifu Lin, Fang Cai and Zhou Li, The China Miracle: Development Strategy and Economic Reform Aidan Cox et al., How European Aid Works. A Comparison of Management Systems and Effectiveness Aidan Cox et al., Understanding European Community Aid Jan Joost Teunissen (ed.), Can Currency Crises be Prevented or Better Managed? Lessons from Mexico Percy S. Mistry, Resolving Africa's Multilateral Debt Problem. A Response to the IMF and the World Bank Jonathan Rigg, Southeast Asia. The Human Landscape of Modernization and Development Susanna Davies, Adaptable Livelihoods: Coping with Food Insecurity in the Malian Sahel Gaim Kibreab, People on the Edge in the Horn: Displacement, Land Use and the Environment in the Gedaref Region, Sudan Tushaar Shah, Catalysing Co-operation. Design of Self-governing Organisations Katar Singh and Vishwa Ballabh (eds), Cooperative Management of Natural Resources W. J. Assies and A. J. Hoekema (eds), Indigenous People's Experiences with Self-Government Joske F. G. Bunders, Bertus Haverkort and Wim Hiemstra (eds), Biotechnology: Building on Farmers' Knowledge Tony Marjoram (ed.), Island Technology. Technology for Development in the South Pacific     

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Book reviewed in this article: Rashid Amjad (ed.). Human Resource Planning: The Asian Experience. Richard Hosier (ed.), Energy, Environment and Development in Africa. Uppsala, Sweden: The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies in association with the Beijer Institute and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Vol. 9, Zimbabwe: Energy Planning for National Development, 1986, xii + 206pp; Vol.10, Zimbabwe: Industrial and Commercial Energy Use, 1988, 142pp; Vol. 11, Energy for Rural Development in Zimbabwe, 1988, 248pp. SEK 70/SEK 40 for Third World countries, hardback. David Burch, Overseas Aid and the Transfer of Technology. T.N. Srinivasan and Pranab K. Bardhan (eds). Rural Poverty in South Asia. John Iliffe, The African Poor: A History. E. Wayne Nafziger, Inequality in Africa: Political Elites, Proletariat, Peasants and the Poor. Randolph C. Kent, Anatomy of Disaster Relief: The International Network in Action. War Wounds: Development Costs of Conflict in Southern Sudan. Sudanese People Report on Their War. A.G.M. Ahmed and Gunnar M. Sørbo (eds), Management of the Crisis in the Sudan: Proceedings of the Bergen Forum 23–24 February 1989. Donald A. Wilwhite and William E. Easterling (eds), with Deborah A. Wood, Planning for Drought: Toward a Reduction of Societal Vulnerability. Keith McLachlan, The Neglected Garden: The Politics and Ecology of Agriculture in Iran. Philip Rallies, Modernising Hunger: Famine. Food Surplus and Farm Policy in the EEC and Africa. Roger Jeffery, The Politics of Health in India. Ben Wisner, Power and Need in Africa: Basic Human Needs and Development Policies. Herlbert Adam and Kogila Moodley, South Africa Without Apartheid: Dismantling Racial Domination. John Suckling and Landeg While (eds). After Apartheid: Renewal of the South African Economy. William Cobbett and Robin Cohen (eds), Popular Struggles in South Africa: Review of African Political Economy. Ann Seidman, The Roots of Crisis in Southern Africa. Peler H. Katjavivi, A History of Resistance in Namibia. Irene Silverblatt, Moon, Sun and Witches. Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru. David Rock, Argentina 1516–1987: From Spanish Colonization to Alfonsin. Barry Ames, Political Survival. Politicians and Public Policy in Latin America. Abel Aganbegyan, The Challenge: Economics of Perestroika. Ronaldo Munck, The New International Labour Studies. An Introduction.     

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Book reviewed in this article: John Friedmann, Empowerment: The Polities of Alternative Development. Charles P. Oman and Ganeshan Wignaraja, The Postwar Evolution of Development Thinking. David Booth (ed.), Rethinking Social Development: Theory, research and practice. Hubert Schmitz and José Cassiolato (eds), Hi-Tech for Industrial Development: Lessons from the Brazilian Experience in Electronics and Automation. Henk Hobbelink, Biotechnology and the Future of World Agriculture: The Fourth Resource. Alan Grainger, Controlling Tropical Deforestation. David Reed (ed.), Structural Adjustment and the Environment. Holger Bernt Hansen and Michael Twaddle (eds), Changing Uganda: The Dilemmas of Structural Adjustment and Revolutionary Change. John Osgood Field (ed.), The Challenge of Famine: Recent Experience, Lessons Learned. David Keen, The Benefits of Famine: A Political Economy of Famine and Relief in Southwestern Sudan, 1983–1989. Peter Utting, Economic Reform and Third World Socialism: A Political Economy of Food Policy in Post-Revolutionary Societies. Sylvia Chant (ed.), Gender and Migration in Developing Countries. Joseph Wronka, Human Rights and Social Policy In the 21st Century. Ismael Getubig Jr and Harry T. Oshima (eds), Towards Full Employment Strategy For Accelerated Economic Growth. Sunanda Sen, Colonies and the Empire: India 1890–1914. Nabendu Sen, India in the International Economy, 1858–1913: Some Aspects of Trade and Finance. Wouter van Ginneken (ed.), Government and its Employees, Case Studies of Developing Countries. John D. Kasarda and Allan M. Parnell (eds), Third World Cities: Problems, Policies, and Prospects. Jorge E. Hardoy, Diana Mitlin and David Satterthwaite, Environmental Problems in Third World Cities.     

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Book reviewed in this article: C.H. Hanumantha Rao, Susantha K. Ray and K. Subbarao, Unstable Agriculture and Droughts. Implications for Policy. A. Vaidyanalhan, Bovine Economy in India. Bernard Glaeser (ed.), The Green Revolution Revisited. Critique and Alternatives. Prabhu L. Pingali, Yves Bigot, Hans P. Binswanger, Agricultural Mechanization and the Evolution of Farming Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. Constance G. Anthony, Mechanization and Maize. Agriculture and the Politics of Technology Transfer in East Africa. Robert Fatlon Jr., The Making of a Liberal Democracy. Senegal's Passive Revolution, 1975–1985. Melanie Beresford, Vietnam: Politics, Economics and Society. Robert S. Ross, The Indochina Tangle. China's Vietnam Policy, 1975–1979. Richard Lawless and Laila Monahan (eds), War and Refugees: The Western Sahara Conflict. Julian Burger, Report from the Frontier. The State of the World's Indigenous Peoples. Peter J. Reynolds, Political Economy: A Synthesis of Kaleckian and Post-Keynesian Economics. Sanjaya Lall, Learning to Industrialize. The Acquisition of Technological Capability by India. P.W. Preston, Rethinking Development: Essays on Development and Southeast Asia. J. Ives and D.C. Pill (eds), Deforestation: Social Dynamics in Watersheds and Mountain Ecosystems. John F. Richards and Richard P. Tucker (eds), World Deforestation in the Twentieth Century. Barry Munslow, The Fuelwood Trap: A Study of the SADCC Region. Salehuddin Ahmed (ed.), Impact of Agricultural and Energy Technology on the Rural Poor. Gustav Ranis and T. Paul Schultz (eds), The State of Development Economics. Progress and Perspectives. Christopher Clapham, Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia. Cristóbal Kay, Latin American Theories of Development and Underdevelopment. Paul Taylor and A.J.R. Groom (eds), International Institutions at Work.     

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Books reviewed: Robert Chambers, Whose Reality Counts? Putting the First Last Geoffrey D. Wood and Iffath A. Sharif (eds), Who Needs Credit? Poverty and Finance in Bangladesh Tony Killick with R. Gunatilaka and A. Marr, Aid and the Political Economy of Policy Change Alex de Waal, Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa David Turton (ed.), War and Ethnicity: Global Connections and Local Violence Krishna Kumar (ed.), Rebuilding Societies After Civil War. Critical Roles for International Assistance Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany (eds), The Untouchables: Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India Homa Hoodfar, Between Marriage and the Market. Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo Adri van den Berg, Land Right, Marriage Left. Women's Management of Insecurity in North Cameroon Haleh Afshar (ed.), Women and Empowerment: Illustrations from the Third World Geertje Lycklama à Nijeholt, Virginia Vargas and Saskia Wieringa (eds), Women's Movements and Public Policy in Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean Edith Sizoo (ed.), Women's Lifeworlds: Women's Narratives on Shaping their Realities Lawrence Haddad, John Hoddinott and Harold Alderman (eds), Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Developing Countries. Models, Methods and Policy Joseph Blasi, Maya Kroumova and Douglas Kruse, Kremlin Capitalism: Privatising the Russian Economy Kees van der Pijl, Transnational Classes and International Relations Melissa Leach and Robin Mearns (eds), The Lie of the Land: Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment Ramachandra Guha and J. Martinez-Alier, Varieties of Environmentalism: Essays North and South Lawrence S. Grossman, The Political Ecology of Bananas: Contract Farming, Peasants and Agrarian Change in the Eastern Caribbean Yiping Huang, Agricultural Reform in China: Getting Institutions Right Holger Bernt Hansen and Michael Twaddle (eds), Developing Uganda     

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Book reviewed in this article: Kent E. Calder, Crisis and Compensation: Public Policy and Political Stability in Japan 1949–1986 J.L. Enos and W.H. Park, The Adoption and Diffusion of Imported Technology: The Case of Korea Mel Gurtov, Global Politics in the Human Interest. Explorations in Peace and Justice. New Perspectives on World Order Ralph Austen, African Economic History: Internal Development and External Dependency James Putzel and John Cunnington, Gaining Ground: Agrarian Reform In the Philippines Ben R. Finney, Business Development in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Pacific Islands Development Program, Research Report no. 6 Christopher Browne with Douglas A. Scott, Economic Development in Seven Pacific Island Countries Bertil Egerö, Mozambique: A Dream Undone. The Political Economy of Democracy 1975–84 Baruch Kimmerling (ed.), The Israeli State and Society, Boundaries and Frontiers David Parkin and David Nyamwaya (eds), Transformations of African Marriage. International African Seminars New Series, No. 3 Christine Oppong (ed.), Sex Roles, Population and Development In West Africa. Policy-related Studies on Work and Demographic Issues W. Ladd Hollist and F. LaMond Tullis (eds), Pursuing Food Security. Strategies and Obstacles in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. International Political Economy Yearbook, Volume 3 E.C. Paul, Fisheries Development and the Food Needs of Mauritius. Rotterdam and Boston: Balkema, 1987. J.-Ph. Platteau, University of Namur, Rempart de la Vierge 8, B-5000 Namur, Belgium Ana Teresa Gutierrez-San Martin, Agrarian Reform Policy in the Dominican Republic. Local Organization and Beneficiary Investment Strategies Thandika Mkandawire and Naceur Bourenane (eds), The State and Agriculture in Africa. London: CODESRIA Book Series, 1987 P.H.J.J. Terhal, World Inequality and Evolutionary Convergence. A Confrontation of the Convergency Theory of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin with Dualistic Integration. Delft: Eburon, 1987 John Weiss, Industry in Developing Countries: Theory, Policy and Evidence C. Lloyd Brown-John (ed.) Centralizing and Decentralizing Trends in Federal States James Dunkerley, Power in the Isthmus: a Political History of Central America Anne F. Thurston, Enemies of the People: The Ordeal of the Intellectuals in China's Great Cultural Revolution     

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Books reviewed: Chang Ha‐Joon and Irene Grubel, Reclaiming Development: An Alternative Economic Policy Manual Simon Bromley, Maureen Mackintosh, William Brown and Marc Wuyts (eds), Making the International: Economic Interdependence and the Political Order Ann Zammit, Development at Risk: Rethinking UN–Business Partnerships Giovanni Andrea Cornia (ed.), Inequality, Growth, and Poverty in an Era of Liberalization and Globalization Dennis A. Rondinelli and G. Shabbir Cheema (eds), Reinventing Government for the Twenty‐First Century: State Capacity in a Globalizing Society Joel S. Migdal (ed.), Boundaries and Belongings: States and Societies in the Struggle to Shape Identities and Local Practices Vernon W. Ruttan, Social Science, Knowledge and Economic Development: An Institutional Design Perspective Greg Bankoff, Georg Frerks and Dorothea Hilhorst (eds), Mapping Vulnerability: Disasters, Development & People Ruedi Baumgartner and Ruedi Hogger (eds), In Search of Sustainable Livelihoods Systems: Managing Resources and Change William D. Sunderlin, Ideology, Social Theory, and the Environment Steven R. Brechin, Peter R. Wilshusen, Crystal L. Fortwangler and Patrick C. West (eds), Contested Nature: Promoting International Biodiversity with Social Justice in the Twenty‐first Century Diane Russell and Camilla Harshbarger, Groundwork for Community‐Based Conservation: Strategies for Social Research James K. Boyce and Barry K. Shelley (eds), Natural Assets: Democratizing Environmental Ownership Nick J. Freeman and Frank L. Bartels (eds), The Future of Foreign Investment in Southeast Asia Sharma, Kishor (ed.), Trade Policy, Growth and Poverty in Asian Developing Countries D. Bandyopadhyay and Amitava Mukherjee, New Issues in Panchayati Raj François Ruf and Frederic Lançon (eds), From Slash‐and‐Burn to Replanting: Green Revolutions in the Indonesian Uplands?     

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Books reviewed: Mark Duffield, Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Development and Security Jude Howell and Jenny Pearce, Civil Society and Development. A Critical Exploration Klaas van Walraven, Dreams of Power: The Role of the Organization of African Unity in the Politics of Africa, 1963–1993 E. Wayne Nafziger, Frances Stewart and Raimo Väyrynen, (eds) War, Hunger, and Displacement. The Origins of Humanitarian Emergencies. Volume 1: Analysis, Volume 2: Case Studies John M. Hobson, The State and International Relations Jorge Larraine, Identity and Modernity in Latin America Anil Hira, Ideas and Economic Policy in Latin America: Regional, National and Organizational Case Studies Janet Townsend, Emma Zapata, Jo Rowlands, Pilar Alberti and Marta Mercado, Women and Power. Fighting Patriarchies and Poverty Anjan K. Datta (ed.), Planning and Management of Water Resources. Lessons from Two Decades of Early Implementation Projects, Bangladesh S. Mahendra Dev, Piush Antony, V. Gayathri and R. P. Mamgain, (eds) Social and Economic Security in India Nira Ramachandran and Lionel Massun (eds), Coming to Grips with Rural Child Work: A Food Security Approach Cecile Jackson (ed.), Men at Work. Labour, Masculinities, Development Paul Rivlin, Economic Policy and Performance in the Arab World S. Griffith–Jones, M. F. Montes and A. Nasution (eds), Short–Term Capital Flows and Economic Crises     

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Books reviewed: Fairhead, James and Leach, Melissa Reframing Deforestation. Global Analysis and Local Realities — Studies in West Africa Kaimowitz, David and Angelsen, Arild Economic Models of Tropical Deforestation: A Review Carney, Diana and Farrington, John Natural Resource Management and Institutional Change Cernea, Michael M. and McDowell, Christopher (eds), Risks and Reconstruction, Experiences of Resettlers and Refugees Nederveen Pieterse,Jan (ed.), World Orders in the Making Mallick, Ross Development, Ethnicity and Human Rights in South Asia Mengers, Harry A. Urban Development in the State of Karnataka, India: Policies, Actors and Outcome Tipton, Frank B. The Rise of Asia. Economics, Society and Politics in Contemporary Asia Griffin, Keith (ed.), Economic Reform in Vietnam Shireen M. Hashim, Income Inequality and Poverty in Malaysia Buckley, Peter J. and Mucchielli, Jean‐Louis (eds), Multinational Firms and International Relocation Bird, Richard M. and Vaillancourt, François (eds), Fiscal Decentralization in Developing Countries Bloström, Magnus, Kokko, Ari and Zejan, Mario Foreign Direct Investment. Firm and Host Country Strategies MacBean, Alasdair (ed.), Trade and Transition. Trade Promotion in Transitional Economics Page, Sheila Regionalism Among Developing Countries Taylor, Annie and Thomas, Caroline (eds), Global Trade and Global Social Issues Tellegen, Nina Rural Enterprises in Malawi: Necessity or Opportunity? Rapoport, Robert N. Families, Children and the Quest for a Global Ethic     

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Books reviewed: Ronaldo Munck, Contemporary Latin America Carmen Diana Deere and Magdalene León, Empowering Women: Land and Property Rights in Latin America Annelies Zoomers and Gemma van der Haar (eds), Current Land Policy in Latin America: Regulating Land Tenure under Neo‐liberalism Annelies Zoomers (ed.), Land and Sustainable Livelihood in Latin America Sudipta Kaviraj and Sunil Khilnani (eds), Civil Society: History and Possibilities Rajesh Tandon and Ranjita Mohanty (eds), Does Civil Society Matter? Governance in Contemporary India Ha‐Joon Chang, Globalization, Economic Development and the Role of the State Yilmaz Akyüz (ed.), Developing Countries and World Trade: Performance and Prospects George Monbiot, The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order Paul Kennedy, Dirk Messner and Franz Nuscheler (eds), Global Trends and Global Governance Paulette Goudge, The Whiteness of Power: Racism in Third World Development and Aid John Clark (ed.), Globalizing Civic Engagement: Civil Society and Transnational Action Julian Le Grand, Motivation, Agency and Public Policy: Of Knights and Knaves, Pawns and Queens Richard Robison and Vedi R. Hadiz, Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets Sara Oldfield (ed.), The Trade in Wildlife: Regulation for Conservation Patricia L. Howard (ed.), Women & Plants: Gender Relations in Biodiversity Management and Conservation Ernest Aryeetey, Julius Court, Machiko Nissanke and Beatrice Weder (eds), Asia and Africa in the Global Economy Jane I. Guyer, Marginal Gains. Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa Amanda Hammar, Brian Raftopoulos and Stig Jensen (eds), Zimbabwe's Unfinished Business: Rethinking Land, State and Nation in the Context of Crisis D. John Shaw, Sir Hans Singer: The Life and Work of a Development Economist     

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Stokke, Olav (ed.), Aid and Political Conditionality Elsenhans, Hartmut State, Class and Development Moghadam, Valentine M. (ed.), Patriarchy and Development: Women's Positions at the End of the Twentieth Century Ngan-ling Chow, Esther and White Berheide, Catherine (eds), Women, the Family and Policy. A Global Perspective Borooah, Romy; Cloud, Kathleen; Seshadri, Subadra; Saraswathi, T. S.; Peterson, Jean T. and Verma, Amita (eds), Capturing Complexity. An Interdisciplinary Look at Women, Households and Development Gilmartin, Christina Kelley Engendering the Chinese Revolution: Radical Women, Communist Politics, and Mass Movements in the 1920s Naughton, Barry Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978–1993 Bain, Irene Agricultural Reform in Taiwan—From Here to Modernity? Brass, Tom (ed.), New Farmers' Movements in India Hirway, Indira and Terhal, Piet Towards Employment Guarantee in India—Indian and International Experiences in Rural Public Works Programmes Sangmpam, S. N. Pseudocapitalism and the Overpoliticized State. Reconciling Politics and Anthropology in Zaire Abegaz, Berhanu (ed.), Essays on Ethiopian Economic Development Park, James William Latin American Underdevelopment: A History of Perspectives in the United States 1870–1965 Belous, Richard S. and Lemco, Jonathan (eds), NAFTA as a Model of Development: The Benefits and Costs of Merging High- and Low-Wage Areas Krueger, Anne O. Trade Policies and Developing Nations Cho, George Trade, Aid and Global Interdependence Teunissen, Jan Joost (ed.), Regionalism and the Global Economy. The Case of Latin America and the Caribbean Evans, Trevor; Castro, Carlos and Jones, Jennifer Structural Adjustment and the Public Sector in Central America and the Caribbean Buchanan-Smith, Margaret and Davies, Susanna Famine Early Warning and Response — the Missing Link     

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Book reviewed in this article: Olav Stokke (ed.), Western Middle Powers and Global Poverty. The Determinants of the Aid Policies of Canada, Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. Gerald K. Helleiner (ed.), The Other Side of International Development Policy. The Non-Aid Economic Relations with Developing Countries of Canada, Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. Cranford Pratt (ed.). Internationalism under Strain. The North-South Policies of Canada, The Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. Cranford Pratt (ed.), Middle Power Internationalism. The North-South Dimension. D.W. Attwood and B.S. Baviskar (eds), Who Shares? Co-operatives and Rural Development. H. Jeffrey Leonard and contributors, Environment and the Poor: Development Strategies for a Common Agenda. Nikolai Shmelev and Vladimir Popov, The Turning Point. Revitalizing the Soviet Economy. George T. Crane, The Political Economy of China's Special Economic Zones. Alexander de Waal, Famine that Kills. Darfur, Sudan, 1984–1985. Philip Leroy Kilbride and Janet Capriotti Kilbride, Changing Family Life in East Africa: Women and Children at Risk. Philip Quarles van Ufford and Matthew Schoffeleers (eds), Religion and Development. Towards an Integrated Approach. William E. James, Seiji Naya and Gerald M. Meier, Asian Development, Economic Success and Policy Lessons. Bonnie K. Campbell (ed.), Political Dimensions of the International Debt Crisis. Lucio Kowarick, The Subjugation of Labour: The Constitution of Capitalism in Brazil. Charles David Smith, Did Colonialism Capture the Peasantry? A Case Study of the Kagera District. H. H. de Haan, Alternatives in Industrial Development: Sugarcane Processing in India. Indo-Dutch Studies on Development Alternatives, 1. Charles K. Mann, Merilee S. Grindle and Parker Shipton (eds), Seeking Solutions: Framework and Cases for Small Enterprise Development Programs. David E. Sahn (ed.), Seasonal Variability in Third World Agriculture. The Consequences for Food Security. Tessa Marcus, Modernising Super-Exploitation: Restructuring South African Agriculture. Peter N. Dean with Cedric Pugh, Government Budgeting in Developing Countries. Suzette Heald, Controlling Anger: The Sociology of Gisu Violence.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Norman Long (ed.), Encounters at the Interface. A perspective on social discontinuities in rural development Eva Poluha, Central Planning and Local Reality: The Case of a Producers Cooperative in Ethiopia. Studies in Social Anthropology No. 23 Harvard Institute for International Development Caleslous Juma, The Gene Hunters: Gerry Rodgers (ed.), Population Growth and Poverty in Rural South Asia Peter Walker, Famine Early Warning Systems: Victims and Destitution Michael Mortimore, Adapting to Drought: Farmers, Famines and Desertification in West Africa Alan Grainger, The Threatening Desert: Controlling Desertification M. Muqtada (ed.), The Elusive Target. An Evaluation of Target-Group Approaches to Employment Creation in Rural Asia. New Delhi: Ching-yan Lin, Latin America vs East Asia. A Comparative Development Perspective Peter M. Ward (ed.), Corruption, Development and Inequality. Soft Touch or Hard Graft? K.N. Panikkar, Against Lord and State: Religion and Peasant Uprisings in Malabar, 1836–1921 P. Calvert (ed.), The Central American Security System: North-South or East-West? Stefan Hedlund and Mats Lundahl, Ideology as a Determinant of Economic Systems. Nyerere and Ujamaa in Tanzania     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Olle Törnquist, Dilemmas in Third World Communism. The Destruction of the PKI in Indonesia. Gaim Kibreab, African Refugees. B.E. Harrell-Bond, Imposing Aid — Emergency Assistance to Refugees. Jan Bouke Wijbrandi, Organized and Spontaneous Settlement in Eastern Sudan: Two Case Studies on Integration of Rural Refugees. Kim Forss, Planning and Evaluation in Aid Organizations. Piers Blaikie, The Political Economy of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries. Michael Lipton with Richard Longhurst, Modern Varieties, International Agricultural Research, and the Poor. Shaul Bakhash: The Reign of tbe Ayatollahs. Iran and the Islamic Revolution. George Black, Garrison Guatemala. Marlene Dixon (ed.), On Trial: Reagan's War Against Nicaragua. Andrew J. Pierre (ed.), Third World Instablity. Central America as a European-American Issue. Maria Helena Moreira Alves, State and Opposition in Military Brazil. E.H. Preeg (ed.), Hard Bargaining Ahead. U.S. Trade Policy and Developing Countries. Esperanza Durán (ed.), Latin America and the World Recession. Gareth Stedman Jones, Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History 1832–1982. Jan Breman, Of Peasants, Migrants and Paupers. Rural Labour Circulation and Capitalisf Production in West India. Vicky Randall and Robin Theobald, Political Change and Underdevelopment: A Critical Introduction to Third World Politics. Stephany Griffith-Jones and Charles Harvey (eds), World Prices and Development. Malcolm C. Sawyer, The Economics of Michal Kalecki. Ricardo Acosta Suárez (ed.), The Management of Interlinkages. ICPE, Essays on Relations between Governments and Public Enterprises. Ale? Vah?i? and Vesna Smole-Grobov?ek (eds), Workers' Self-management and Participation. National Reports, Vol. III Ivan Turk, Accounting Analysis of the Efficiency of Public Enterprises. Twenty-five Years of Development Cooperation: A Review. Efforts and Policies of the Members of the Development Assistance Committee. Report by Rutherford M. Poats. Javed A. Ansari, The Political Economy of International Economic Organization.