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Book reviewed in this article: Cedric Pugh. Housing and Urbanisation: A Study of India Gil Shidlo, Social Policy in a Non-Democratic Regime: The Case of Public Housing in Brazil Lars Marcussen, Third World Housing In Social and Spatial Development Philip Amis and Peter Lloyd (eds), Housing Africa's Urban Poor Alan Gilbert and Ann Varley, Landlord and Tenant. Housing the Poor in Urban Mexico Patrkia Adams, Odious Debts: Loose Lending, Corruption and the Third World's Environmental Legacy Elmar Altvater, Kurt Hiibner, Jocben Lorentzen and Rall Rojas (eds), The Poverty of Nations: A Guide to the Debt Crisis from Argentina to Zaire Cheryl Payer, Lent and Lost: Foreign Credit and Third World Development James Pickett and Hans Singer (eds), Towards Economic Recovery in Sub-Suharan Africa: Essays in Honour of Robert Cardiner. Roger C. Riddell, Manufacturing Africa. Performance and Prospects of Seven Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa Robert Klitgmrd. Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa. Oda van Cranenburgh, The Widening Gyre: The TanrruriOn One-Party State and Policy towards Rural Cooperatives William Ascher and Robcrt Healy, Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries. Environment, Economic Growth and Income Distribution. Asit K. Bisweo, T.N. Khoshoo and Ashok Khosla (eds), Environmental Modelling for Developing Countr & s. Barbara J. Cummings, Dam the Rivers, Damn the People: Development and Resistance in Amazonian Brazil. David Barkin, Rosemary L. BIatt and Bilk R. DeWalt, Food Crops vs. Feed Crops. GlobalSubstitution of Grains in Production. Boulder, CO and London: Chris Milaer (ed.), Exporl Promotion Strategies: Theory and Evidence from Developing Counlrlcs Jairus Bannji and Rohini Hensman, 6eyond Multinationalism: Management Policy and Bargaining Rehtionships in International Companies. (Indo-Dutch Studies in Development Alternatives No. 2) Santosb Mehrotra, India and the Soviet Union: Trade and Technology Transfer John Child and Martin Lockett (eds), Reform Poky and the Chinese Enterprise Micbael C. Howard, FQi: Ruceund PoUricsin un IslundStute Stephanie Lawson, The Fuilure of Democrutic PoUtics in FQi Mark Turner, Pepuo New Guinea: The Challenge of Independence SePn Dorney, Papua New Guinea. People, Polfries and History since 1975 Peter Knapp and Alan J. Spector, Chis and Change: Basic Questions of Morxist Sociology. Adrian P. Wood, Stuart A. Keaa, John T. Mllimo and Dennis Michael Warren (eds), The Dynamics of Agricultural Policy and Reform in Zambia lsmael P. Cetublg, Jr, V.L. Choprn and M.S. Swaminathan (eds), Biotcchnologyfor Asian Agriculture: Public Policy Implicotions.     

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Book reviewed in this article: ‘DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM’ ON THE PLANTATIONS? THE JAMAICAN SUGAR WORKERS' COOPERATIVES: Carl Henry Feuer, Jamaica and the Sugar Worker Cooperatives: The Politics of Reform. Boulder ‘DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM’ ON THE PLANTATIONS? THE JAMAICAN SUGAR WORKERS' COOPERATIVES: Monica Frölander-Ulf and Frank Lindenfeld, A New Earth: The Jamaican Sugar Workers' Cooperatives, 1975–1981. ‘DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM’ ON THE PLANTATIONS? THE JAMAICAN SUGAR WORKERS' COOPERATIVES: D. C. M. Piatt and Guido di Telia (eds), Argentina, Australia and Canada. Studies in Comparative Development, 1870–1965. ‘DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM’ ON THE PLANTATIONS? THE JAMAICAN SUGAR WORKERS' COOPERATIVES: Charles Edquist, Capitalism, Socialism and Technology: A Comparative Study of Cuba and Jamaica. ‘DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM’ ON THE PLANTATIONS? THE JAMAICAN SUGAR WORKERS' COOPERATIVES: Merle Lipton, Capitalism and Apartheid: South Africa 1910–84. ‘DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM’ ON THE PLANTATIONS? THE JAMAICAN SUGAR WORKERS' COOPERATIVES: Dale Johnson (ed.) Middle Class in Dependent Countries. Liberal Hopes: John W. Sewell, R. E. Feinberg and V. Kallab (eds), U. S. Foreign Policy and the Third World: Agenda 1985–1986. US-Third World Policy Perspectives No. 3. Washington DC: Overseas Development Council; Liberal Hopes: A. Gauhar (ed.), Regional Integration: The Latin American Experience. Liberal Hopes: Theodore Panayotou (ed.), Food Policy Analysis in Thailand. Liberal Hopes: J. G. M. Hilhorst and M. Klatter (eds), Social Development in the Third World Level of Living Indicators and Social Planning. Liberal Hopes: R. L. Harris and C. M. Vilas (eds), Nicaragua: A Revolution under Siege. Liberal Hopes: Kwame Arhin, Paul Hesp and Laurens van der Laan (eds), Marketing Boards in Tropical Africa. Monographs from the Africa Studies Centre, Leiden. Liberal Hopes: Alan Gilbert and Peter M. Ward, Housing, the State and the Poor. Policy and Practice in Three Latin American Cities. Liberal Hopes: John Rogge, Too Many, Too Long: Sudan's Twenty-Year Refugee Dilemma. Liberal Hopes: Robert Cassen (ed.), Soviet Interests in the Third World London: Royal Institute of International Affairs; Liberal Hopes: Raymond Goodman, Charles Lepani and David Morawetz, The Economy of Papua New Guinea. An Independent Review. Liberal Hopes: Allan G. Hill (ed.), Papulation, Health and Nutrition in the SaheL Issues in the Welfare of Selected West African Communities. London, Boston, Melbourne and Henley: Kegan Paul International, 1985. xxiv + 400 pp. Paperback. N. p.     

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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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Book reviewed in this article: Solon L. Barraclough, An End to Hunger? The Social Origins of Food Strategies. Fernando H. Cnrdoso et al., Eight Essays on the Crisis of Deuelopment in Latin America. Peter Utting, Economic Adjustment under the Sanrlinistas; Policy Reform, Food Security and Livelihood in Nicaragua. Geneva: Mats Lundahl, Politics or Markets? Essays on Haitian Underdevelopment. David Shapiro and Eric Tollens, The Agricultural Development of Zaire. Bruce Berman and John Lonsdale, Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and Afiica. Steve Chan and Cal Clark, Flexibility, Foresight and Fortuna in Taiwan™s Development: Tibor Vagko (ed.), Problems of Economic Transition: Regional Development in Central and R. Adhikari, C. Kirkpatrick and J. Weiss (eds), Industrial and Trade Policy Reform in Developing Dilip K. Dm, Import Candisarion David Simon, Cities, Capital and Development: African Cities in the World Economy. Robert-Jan Baken and Jan van der Linden, Land Delivery for Low Zncorne Groups in Third World Cifies. Usha Jumani, Dealing with Poverty. Self-employment for Poor Rural Women. David Wright-Neville, The Evolution of Japanese Foreign Aid 1955-1956. Monash Development Studies Centre Monograph No. 2. Monash Oliver Morrissey, Brian Smith and Edward Horesh, British Aid and International Trade. David Keen, Refugees: Rationing the Right to Life. The Crisis in emergency relief; M. B. K. Darkoh (ed.), African River Basins and Dryland Crises. Doug Porter, Bryant Allen and Gaye Thompson Navigating between Scylla und Charybdis. Eastern Europe. Countries     

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Book reviewed in this article: Thomas J. Biersteker, Multinationals, the State, and Control of the Nigerian Economy. Olusola Akinrinade and J. Kurt Barling (eds), Economic Development in Africa: International Efforts, Issues and Prospects. Kamran Mofid, Development Planning in Iran from Monarchy to Islamic Republic. George Kopils, Structural Reform, Stabilization and Growth in Turkey. Rizwanul Islam (ed.), Rural Industrialization and Employment in Asia. Javier Gonzalo Alcade, The Idea of Third World Development: Emerging Perspectives in the United States and Britain Christopher Layton, Europe and the Global Crisis: a First Exploration of Europe's Potential Contribution to World Order. Roger C. Riddell, Foreign Aid Reconsidered Stephen Britton and William C. Clarke (eds), Ambiguous Alternative: Tourism in Small Developing Countries. Rosemary B. Jommo, Indigenous Enterprise in Kenya's Tourism Industry. Clare Wells, The UN, UNESCO and the Politics of Knowledge. Caroline Thomas, In Search of Security: The Third World in International Relations. Nzongola-Ntalaja, Bade Onimode, Bernard Magubane, Harold Wolpe, Kempton Makamure, Fatima Babikar Mahmoud, Abdoulaye Bathily, Africa's Crisis. Alan Berg, Malnutrition. What can be done? Lessons from World Bank Experience. Charles L. Choguill, New Communities for Urban Squatters; Lessons from the Plan that Failed in Dhaka, Bangladesh. John W. Mellor, Christopher L. Delgado and Malcolm J. Blackie (eds), Accelerating Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa. James A. Beckford (ed.), New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change. Kirsten Hoist Petersen (ed.), Religion, Development and African Identity. Jean-Paul Sajhau and Jiirgen Von Muralt, Plantations and Plantation Workers. Colin Kirk, People in Plantations: A Literature Review and Annotated Bibliography. Victor Buhner-Thomas, The Political Economy of Central America since 1920. Judith Gentleman (ed. h Mexican Politics in Transition. Chris Prouty, Empress Taytu and Menilek II. Ethiopia 1883–1910. Stewart MacPherson and James Midgley, Comparative Social Policy and the Third World. Mansour Khalid (ed.), John Garang Speaks. Robert E. Hudec, Developing Countries in the GA TT Legal System.     

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Book reviewed in this article: James H. Cassing and Steven L. Husted (eds). Capital, Technology, and Labor in the New Global Economy. G.T. Kenshaw (ed.), Market Liberalisation, Equity and Development. Joan M. Nelson el al., Fragile Coalitions: The Politics of Economic Adjustment. Hamza Alavi and John Harriss (eds), South Asia — Sociology of ‘Developing Societies’. Frans Schuurman and Ton van Naerssen (eds), Urban Social Movements in the Third World. Susan Eckstein (ed.), Power and Popular Protest. Latin American Social Movements. Jonathan Hartlyn, The Politics of Coalition Rule in Colombia. Bernard Eccleston, State and Society in Post-war Japan. Melanie Beresford, National Unification and Economic Development in Vietnam. June I. Parpart (ed.), Homen and Development in Africa: Comparative Perspectives. Anil Bhatt, Development and Social Justice. Micro Action by Weaker Sections.     

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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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Book reviewed in this article: Wim van Binsbergen and Peter Geschiere (eds), Old Modes of Production and Capitalist Encroachment. Anthropological Explorations in Africa. Ximena Bunster and Elsa M. Chaney, Sellers and Servants. Working Women in Lima, Peru. Martin Carnoy, The State and Political Theory. Muthoni Likimani, Passbook Number F. 47927: Women andMau Mau in Kenya. With an Introductory Essay by Jean O'Barr. Nancy Gina Bermco, The Revolution within the Revolution. Workers' Control in Rural Portugal. Gunilla Andrae and Björn Beckman, The Wheat Trap. Bread and Underdevelopment in Nigeria.. Gilbert Rozman, A Mirror for Socialism: Soviet Criticisms of China.. Hugh Hawes and Trevor Coombe, with Carol Coombe and Kevin Lillis (eds), Education Priorities and Aid Responses in Sub-Sakaran Africa. Report of a Conference at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor (UK), 4–7 December 1984. V. V. Ramanadham (ed.), Public Enterprise: Studies in Organisational Structure. Merilee S. Grindle, State and Countryside. Development Policy and Agrarian Politics in Latin America. Stephen S. Cohen, Rethinking the Soviet Experience. Politics and History since 1917. R. James Bingen, Food Production and Rural Development in the Sahel. Lessons from Mali's Opération Riz-Segou. Westview Special Series in Social, Political and Economic Development. Loet B. M. Mennes and Ardy J. Stoutjesdijk, Multicounlry Investment Analysis. A CONSISTENT DATA SET LINKED TO PLANNING FOR EQUITABLE GROWTH: Graham Pyatt and Jeffrey R. Round (eds), Social Accounting Matrices. A Basis for Planning. A CONSISTENT DATA SET LINKED TO PLANNING FOR EQUITABLE GROWTH: Douglas C. Bennett and Kenneth E. Sharpe, Transnational Corporations Versus the State. The Political Economy of the Mexican Auto Industry. A CONSISTENT DATA SET LINKED TO PLANNING FOR EQUITABLE GROWTH: P. W. Preston, New Trends in Development Theory: Essays in Development and Social Theory. A CONSISTENT DATA SET LINKED TO PLANNING FOR EQUITABLE GROWTH: Carlos M. Vilas, The Sandinista Revolution. National Liberation and Social Transformation in Central America. Translated by Judy Butler. A CONSISTENT DATA SET LINKED TO PLANNING FOR EQUITABLE GROWTH: Cole P. Dodge and Paul D. Wiebe (eds), Crisis in Uganda: The Breakdown of Health Services. A CONSISTENT DATA SET LINKED TO PLANNING FOR EQUITABLE GROWTH: Diana Hunt, The Impending Crisis in Kenya: The Case for Land Reform. A CONSISTENT DATA SET LINKED TO PLANNING FOR EQUITABLE GROWTH: Martin Godfrey, Global Unemployment: The New Challenge to Economic Theory.     

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Book reviewed in this article: T.L. Maliyamkono and M.S.D. Bagachwa, The Second Economy in Tanzania. Paul van Gelder and Joep Bijlmer (eds). About Fringes, Margins and Lucky Dips. The Informal Sector in Third World Countries; Recent Developments in Research and Policy. Wil Pansters and Arij Ouweneel (eds), Region, State and Capitalism in Mexico, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Terry Cannon and Alan Jenkins (eds), The Geography of Contemporary China: The Impact of Deng Xiaoping's Decade. Suh Jang-Won (ed.), Strategies for Industrial Development: Concept and Policy Issues. Bruce McKern and Praipol Koomsup (eds), The Minerals of ASEAN and Australia: Problems and Prospects. Deborah Lynn Bleviss and Vanessa Lide (eds), Energy Efficiency Strategies for Thailand. The Needs and the Benefits. Report of a conference 4–6 March 1988, Pattaya, Thailand. Maureen Mackintosh, Gender, Class and Rural Transition. Agribusiness and the Food Crisis in Senegal. Anders Hjort af Ornäs and M.A. Mohamed Salih (eds), Ecology and Politics: Environment Stress and Security in Africa. Alvin Y. So, Social Change and Development: Modernization, Dependency and World System Theories. Terry Boswell (ed.). Revolution in the World System. Thierry G. Verhelsl (trans. Bob Cumming), No Life Without Roots: Culture and Development. Howard Johnson (ed.). After the Crossing. Immigrants and Minorities in Caribbean Creole Society. Frank Furedi, The Mau Mau War in Perspective. Robert B. Edgerton, Mau Mau: An African Crucible. Edmond J. Keller, Revolutionary Ethiopia: From Empire to People's Republic. Dawit Wolde Giorgis, Red Tears: War, Famine and Revolution in Ethiopia. Andrew Finkel and Nukhet Sirman (eds), Turkish State, Turkish Society. David Dewar and Vanessa Watson, Urban Markets. Developing Informal Retailing. Josephine Smart, The Political Economy of Street Hawkers in Hong Kong. Charles Cooper and Raphael Kaplinsky (eds), Technology and Development In the Third Industrial Revolution. Patrice J.H. Riemens, On the Foreign Operations of Third World Firms. M. Dutta, Chan Pei-Kang and Lin Shao-Kung (eds). Research in Asian Economic Studies, Vol. 2, 1990: China's Modernization and Open Economic Policy. C. Gwin and R. Keinberg et al., Pulling Together: The International Monetary Fund in a Multipolar World. Overseas Development Council US-Third World Policy Perspectives, No. 13. Malcolm Wallis, Bureaucracy. Its Role in Third World Development. Peter H. Koehn, Public Policy and Administration in Africa: Lessons from Nigeria. John A. Dixon, David E. James and Paul B. Sherman, The Economics of Dryland Management. John A. Dixon, David E. James and Paul B. Sherman (eds), Dryland Management: Economic Case Studies.     

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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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Book reviewed in this article: Peter Hayes and Kirk Smith (eds), The Global Greenhouse Regime: Martin Carnoy, Manuel Castells, Stephen S. Cohen, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, The New Global Economy in the Information Age: Reflections on our Changing World Keith Griffin and Azizur Rahman Khan, Globalization and the Developing World: An essay on the international dimensions of development in the post-Cold War era Piers Blaikie, Terry Cannon, Ian Davis and Ben Wisner, At Risk. Natural hazards, people's vulnerability, and disasters. David G. Westendorff and Dharam Ghai (eds), Monitoring Social Progress in the 1990s Per Lind, Computerization in Developing Countries: Model and Reality. Olav Stokke (ed.), Evaluating Development Assistance: Policies and Performance. P. O. Pedersen, A. Sverrisson and M. P. van Dijk (eds), Flexible Specialization. Edward G. Goetz and Susan E. Clarke (eds), The New Localism: Comparative urban politics in a global era. Richard D. Bingham and Robert Mier (eds), Theories of Local Economic Development: Perspectives from across the disciplines. ‘Atu Emberson-Bain’, Labour and Gold in Fiji. Cambridge: Brij V. Lai, Broken Waves: A History of the Fiji Islands in the Twentieth Century. Yanrui Wu and Xiaohe Zhang (eds), Chinese Economy in Transition. Canberra: Linda Low et al. (eds), Challenge and Response: David R. Phillips (ed.), Ageing in East and South-East Asia, Research Studies in Gerontology. Nandini Dasgupta, Petty Trading in the Third World: The Case of Calcutta. Stanley Lalta and Marie Freckleton (eds) Caribbean Economic Development—The first generation, Kingston, Jamaica: Peter Wade, Blackness and Race Mixture. The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia. Baltimore and London: Sarah A. Radcliffe and Sallie Westwood (eds) ‘VIVA’, Women and Popular Protest in Latin America. Javier Gonzalo Alcalde, Development, Decay and Social Conflict. Thomas Carothers, In the Name of Democracy: US Policy Toward Latin America in the Reagan Years. Berkeley: Jeffry A. Frieden, Debt, Development and Democracy: Modern Political Economy and Latin America, Aderanti Adepoju and Christine Oppong (eds), Gender, Work and Population in Sub-Saharan Africa. London: James Currey; Eliphas G. Mukonoweshuro, Colonialism, Class Formation and Underdevelopment in Sierra Leone. J. S. Eades, Strangers and Traders: Yoruba Migrants, Markets and the State in Northern Ghana. C. R. Cutshall, Justice for the People. Community Courts and Legal Transformation in Zimbabwe. Yusif A. Sayigh, Elusive Development: From Dependence to Self-Reliance in the Arab Region. Jean-Pierre Potier, Pierro Sraffa—unorthodox economist (1898–1983). A Biographical Essay.     

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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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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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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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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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Books reviewed: Klein, N. ‘No Logo Forster, C. Australian Cities: Continuity and Change Hamnett, S. and Freestone, R. (eds) The Australian Metropolis: a Planning History Marcuse, P. and van Kempen, R. (eds) Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order? Gleeson, B. and Low, N. Australian Urban Planning: New Challenges, New Agendas Meyer, B. and Geschiere, P. (eds) Globalization and Identity. Dialectics of Flow and Closure Hall, C.M. Tourism Planning: Policies, Processes and Relationships Inglis, A. Beside the Seaside. Victorian Resorts in the Nineteenth Century Stratford, E. (ed.) Australian Cultural Geographies J. Dargavel and B. Libbis (eds) Australia's Ever‐Changing Forests IV: Proceedings of the Fourth National Conference on Australian Forest History Filer, C. (ed.) Dilemmas of Development: the Social and Economic Impact of the Porgera Gold Mine 1989–1994 Summerfield, M.A. (ed.) Geomorphology and Global Tectonics     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Michael Fleet, The Rise and Fall of Chilean Christian Democracy. Richard E. Feinberg and Contributors, Between Two Worlds, The World Bank's Next Decade. US-Third World Policy Perspectives No. 7. World Bank, Recovery in the Developing World. The London Symposium on the World Bank's Role. OECD, Financing and External Debt of Developing Countries Stanley Please, The Hobbled Giant. Essays on the World Bank. Robert Cassen and Associates, Does Aid Work? Report to an Intergovernmental Task Force. W. Arthur Lewis, Racial Conflict and Economic Development. Gunnar M. Serbe, Tenants and Nomads in Eastern Sudan. A Study of Economic Adaptations in the New Haifa Scheme. Victor S. D'Souza, Economic Development, Social Structure and Population Growth. Mark Hnlmström, Industry and Inequality. The Social Anthropology of Indian Labour. S. M. Ghanem, OPEC. The Rise and Fall of an Exclusive Club. Shelagh Weir, Qat in Yemen: Consumption and Social Change. Ray Bromley (ed.), Planning for Small Scale Enterprises in Third World Cities. Ian Smillie, No Condition Permanent: Pump-Priming Ghana's Industrial Revolution. The ‘Geneva Group’, How to Run Small Development Projects. Val Curtis, Women and the Transport of Water. Marcia M. Gowen, with the assistance of Herbert A. Wade, Renewable Energy Assessments: An Energy Planner's Manual. Deepak Lai and Martin Wolf (eds), Stagnation, Savings and the State. T. G. Weiss, Multilateral Development Diplomacy in UNCTAD. Rune Skarstein and Samuel W. Wangwe, Industrial Development in Tanzania: Some Critical Issues. Ian Livingstone, Rural Development, Employment and Incomes in Kenya. Franceses Bray, The Rice Economies: Technology and Development in Asian Societies. Saadet Deger, Military Expenditure in Third World Countries: The Economic Effects. K. J. Davey, Financing Regional Government: International Practices and their Relevance to the Third World. Stella Lowder, Inside Third World Cities. H. A. Reitsma and J. M. G. Kleinpenning, The Third World in Perspective.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: A.L. Somjee, Development Theory: Critiques and Explorations. R.M. Sundrum, Economic Growth In Theory and Practice. Phyllis Deane, The State and the Economic System: An Introduction to the History of Political Economy. Michael Upton with Richard Longburst, New Seeds and Poor People. Inderjit Singh, The Great Ascent. The Rural Poor In South Asia. Robert S. Anderson, Edwin Levy and Barrie M. Morrison, Rice Science and Development Politics: Research Strategies and IRRTs Technologies Confront Asian Diversity (1950–1980) Henry Bernstein, Ben Crow, Maureen Mackintosh and Charlotte Martin (eds), The Food Question: Profits versus People? Martin Doornbos, Frank van Dorsten, Manoshi Mitra and Piet Terhal, Dairy Aid and Development. India's Operation Flood. Martin Doornbos and K.N. Nair (eds), Resources, Institutions and Strategies. Operation Flood and Indian Dairying. Mohammad Javad Amid, Agriculture, Poverty and Reform In Iran. Jos G.M. Hilhorst, Regional Studies and Rural Development. P. de Valk and K.H. Wekwete (eds), Decentralizing for Participatory Planning? Jonathan Baker (ed.), Small Town Africa. Studies In Rural-Urban Interaction. M. Jide Balogun and Gelase Mutahaba (eds), Economic Restructuring and African Public Administration: Issues, Actions and Future Choices. Gordon P. Means, Malaysian Politics. The Second Generation. Alasdair Bowie, Crossing the Industrial Divide. State, Society and the Politics of Economic Transformation In Malaysia. Victor T. King and Michael J.G. Parnwell (eds), Margins and Minorities. The Peripheral Areas and Peoples of Malaysia. Forrest D. Colburn (ed.), Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. Tony Saicb (ed.), The Chinese People's Movement. Perspectives on Spring 1989. Michel Oksenberg, Lawrence R. Sullivan and Marc Lambert (eds), Beijing Spring 1989. Confrontation and Conflict. The Basic Documents. Jan Nederveen Pleterse, Empire and Emancipation: Power and Liberation on a World Scale.     

Book Reviews

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     

BOOKS RECEIVED

Hal B. Levine and Marlene Wolfzahn Levine. Urbanization in Papua New Guinea: A Study of Ambivalent Townsmen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. 160 pp. $21.50.

T. J. May, ed. Change and Movement: Readings on Internal Migration in Papua New Guinea. Canberra: Australian National University Press, for Papua New Guinea Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research, 1978. xii + 284 pp. $21.95, Aust.