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Books reviewed: David Mosse, Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice Jeff Haynes, Politics in the Developing World: A Concise Introduction James Petras, The New Development Politics: The Age of Empire Building and New Social Movements Goran Hyden, Julius Court and Kenneth Mease, Making Sense of Governance: Empirical Evidence from 16 Developing Countries David Held and Anthony McGrew (eds), Governing Globalization: Power, Authority and Global Governance Bjørn Lomborg (ed.), Global Crises, Global Solutions Uma S. Kambhampati, Development and the Developing World Sanjeev Prakash and Per Selle (eds), Investigating Social Capital: Comparative Perspectives in Civil Society, Participation and Governance Manoranjan Mohanty (ed.), Class, Caste, Gender: Readings in Indian Government and Politics K. Sivaramakrishnan and Arun Agrawal (eds), Regional Modernities: The Cultural Politics of Development in India Aihwa Ong, Buddha is Hiding Duncan McCargo and Ukrist Pathmanand, The Thaksinization of Thailand Pansak Vinyaratn, 21^st Century Thailand: Facing the Challenge, Economic Policy and Strategy Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker, Thaksi: The Business of Politics in Thailand Bade Onimode et al., African Development and Governance Strategies in the 21^st Century: Looking Back to Move Forward (Essays in Honour of Adebayo Adedeji at Seventy) Christine J. Walley, Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park Christian A. Kull, Isle of Fire: The Political Ecology of Landscape Burning in Madagascar David Edmunds and Eva Wollenberg (eds), Local Forest Management: The Impacts of Devolution Policies Thomas J. Misa, Philip Brey and Andrew Feenberg (eds), Modernity and Technology     

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Books Reviewed: Peter Isard, Globalization and the International Financial System: What's Wrong and What Can be Done Matthew Odedokun (ed.), External Finance for Private Sector Development: Appraisals and Issues Sunanda Sen, Global Finance at Risk: On Real Stagnation and Instability Susanne Soederberg, The Politics of the New International Financial Architecture: Reimposing Neoliberal Domination in the Global South Anne Marie Goetz and Rob Jenkins, Reinventing Accountability: Making Democracy Work for Human Development Patricia L. McCarney and Richard E. Stren (eds), Governance on the Ground: Innovations and Discontinuities in Cities of the Developing World Michael Carley, Paul Jenkins and Harry Smith (eds), Urban Development & Civil Society: The Role of Communities in Sustainable Cities David Potts, Patrick Ryan and Anna Toner (eds), Development Planning and Poverty Reduction Feargal Cochrane, Rosaleen Duffy and Jan Selby (eds), Global Governance, Conflict and Resistance Pranab Bardhan, Scarcity, Conflicts, and Cooperation: Essays in the Political and Institutional Economics of Development Lyuba Zarsky (ed.), Human Rights and the Environment: Conflict and Norms in a Globalizing World Krishna B. Ghimire (ed.), The Native Tourist: Mass Tourism within Developing Countries Donald G. Reid, Tourism, Globalization and Development: Responsible Tourism Planning Rosaleen Duffy A Trip Too Far. Ecotourism, Politics and Exploitation Kees Jansen and Sietze Vellema (eds), Agribusiness and Society: Corporate Responses to Environmentalism, Market Opportunities and Public Regulation Ashok Gulati, Ruth M. Dick and K. V. Raju, Institutional Reforms in Indian Irrigation Robin Clarke and Jannet King, The Atlas of Water: Mapping the World's Most Critical Resource Janelle Plummer and John G Taylor (eds), Community Participation in China: Issues and Processes for Capacity Building Tunde Zack‐Williams, Diane Frost and Alex Thomson (eds), Africa in Crisis: New Challenges and Possibilities     

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Thomas D. Hall (ed.), A World‐Systems Reader: New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology Arif Dirlik, Vinay Bahl and Peter Gran (eds.), History After the Three Worlds: Post Eurocentric Historiographies Susan Schech and Jane Haggis, Culture and Development: A Critical Introduction Mehran Kamrava, Cultural Politics in the Third World Adrian Wood, Raymond Apthorpe and John Borton (eds.), Evaluating International Humanitarian Action: Reflections from Practitioners Richard Black, Refugees, Environment and Development Aristide R. Zolberg and Peter Benda (eds.), Global Migrants, Global Refugees: Problems and Solutions H. W. Singer with D. J. Shaw (ed.), International Development Co‐Operation: Selected Essays by H. W. Singer on Aid and the United Nations System Kristoffel Lieten and Ben White (eds.), Child Labour: Policy Options C. J. Barrow, Social Impact Assessment: An Introduction Douglas Saltmarshe, Identity in a Post‐communist Balkan State: An Albanian Village Study Anne Marie Goetz, Women Development Workers. Implementing Rural Credit Programmes in Bangladesh A. Kundu and A. N. Sharma (eds.), Informal Sector in India: Perspectives and Policies A. Haroon Akram‐Lodhi (ed.), Confronting Fiji Futures M. A. Mohamed Salih and John Markakis (eds.), Ethnicity and the State in Eastern Africa Jeanne X. Kasperson and Roger Kasperson (eds.), Global Environmental Risk James R. Bingen, David Robinson and John M. Staatz (eds.), Democracy and Development in Mali Harri Eglund, From War to Peace on the Mozambique‐Malawi Borderland     

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Book reviewed in this article: Malcolm Waters, Globalization. London and New York: Alan Pred and Michael John Watts, Reworking Modernity: Capitalisms and Symbolic Discontent. Jeff Haynes, Religion in Third World Politics. Raoul Granqvist (ed.), Culture in Africa: An Appeal for Pluralism. D. Michael Warren, L. Jan Slikkerveer and David Brokensha (eds), The Cultural Dimension of Development: Indigenous Knowledge Systems. Judith Randel and Tony German (eds), The Reality of Aid 95: An Independent Review of International Aid. Maurice J. Williams and Parti L. Pretesch, Sustaining the Earth: Role of Multilateral Development Institutions. Joan M Nelson and Stephanie J. Eglinton, Global Goals, Contentious Means: Issues of Multiple Conditionality. Alan Rix, Japan's Foreign Aid Challenge: Policy Reform and Aid Leadership. R. Vos, Debt and Adjustment in the World Economy. Structural Asymmetries in North-South Interactions. W. F. M. de Vries, G. P. den Bakker, M. B. G. Gircour, S. J. Keuning and A. Lenson (eds), The Value Added of National Accounting: Commemorating 50 Years of National Accounts in the Netherlands. Michael Cranna (ed.), The True Cost of Conflict. Raymond W. Copson, Africa's Wars and Prospects for Peace. Sharif Harir and Terje Tvedt (eds), Short-Cut to Decay: The Case of the Sudan. John Walton and David Seddon, Free Markets and Food Riots: The Politics of Global Adjustment. Peter Gibbon (ed.), Social Change and Economic Reform in Africa. Amitava Mukherjee, Structural Adjustment Programme and Food Security—Hunger and Poverty in India. Tony KiUick (ed.), The Flexible Economy: Causes and Consequences of the Adaptability of National Economies. Howard Stein (ed.), Asian Industrialization and Africa: Studies in Policy Alternatives to Structural Adjustment. Jan Peter Wogart, Aasha Kapur Mehta and Arun Mehta, Technology and Competitiveness: The Case of Brazilian and Indian Machine Tools. Nicholas Maddock and Frank A. Wilson (eds), Project Design for Agricultural Development. John D. MacArthur and John Weiss (eds), Agriculture, Projects and Development. Papers in Honour of David Edwards. Alan Gilpin, Environmental Impact Assessment. Cutting Edge for the Twenty-First Century. Laura Westra and Peter S. Wenz (eds), Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice. Gita Sen and Rachel C. Snow, Power and Decision: The Social Control of Reproduction. Isabella Bakker (ed.), The Strategic Silence: Gender and Economic Policy. Parvin Paidar, Women and the Political Process in Twentieth-Century Iran. Sankar Kumar Bhaumik, Tenancy Relations and Agrarian Development: A Study of West Bengal. Pauline E. Peters, Dividing the Commons: Politics, Policy, and Culture in Botswana. Susan Eva Eckstein, Back from the Future: Cuba under Castro. Olga Nieuwenhuys, Children's Lifeworlds: Gender, Welfare and Labour in the Developing World. Stephen Castles and Mark J. Miller, The Age of Migration. W. R. Böhning and L.-L. Schloeter-Paredes (eds), Aid in Place of Migration? Werner Sengenberger and Duncan Campbell (eds), International Labour Standards and Economic Interdependence: Essays in Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the International Labour Organisation and the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration of Philadelphia. Francis T. Seow, To Catch a Tartar: A Dissident in Lee Kuan Yew's Prison. Christopher Tremewan, The Political Economy of Social Control in Singapore. John Foran, Fragile Resistance: Social Transformation in Iran from 1500 to the Revolution.     

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Books reviewed in this article: Solon Barraclough and Krishna Ghimire, Agricultural Expansion and Tropical Deforestation: Poverty, International Trade, and Land Use David Sogge, Give and Take: What's the Matter with Foreign Aid? Joanna Macrae, Aiding Recovery? The Crisis of Aid in Chronic Political Emergencies J. E. Stiglitz and Pierre‐Alain Muet (eds), Governance, Equity and Global Markets Richard Freeman (ed.), Inequality Around the World Nils Bhinda, Stephany Griffith‐Jones, Jonathan Leape and Matthew Martin, Private Capital Flows to Africa: Perception and Reality Robert Ebel and Rajan Menon (eds), Energy and Conflict in Central Asia and the Caucasus Samantha F. Ravich, Marketization and Democracy: East Asian Experiences Else Øyen et al. (eds), Best Practices in Poverty Reduction: An Analytical Framework Karen Brock and Rosemary McGee, Knowing Poverty: Critical Reflections on Participatory Research and Policy Judy Batt and Kataryna Wolczuk (eds), Region, State and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe Harald Wydra, Continuities in Poland's Permanent Transition Joseph Fewsmith, China Since Tiananmen: The Politics of Transition Gita Sen, Asha George and Piroska Ostlin (eds), Engendering International Health: The Challenge of Equity Trevor Parfitt, The End of Development? Modernity, Post‐modernity and Development Linda Whiteford and Lenore Manderson (eds), Global Health Policy,Local Realities: The Fallacy of the Level Playing Field Gary S. Fields, Distribution and Development: A New Look at the Developing World     

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Mahmood Mamdani, Citizen and Subject. Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism Stephen Ellis (ed.), Africa Now: People, Policies, Institutions David E. Apter and Carl G. Rosberg (eds), Political Development and the New Realism in Sub-Saharan Africa Alfred Zack-Williams, Tributors, Supporters and Merchant Capital: Mining and Underdevelopment in Sierra Leone Ruth Iyob, The Eritrean Struggle for Independence: Domination, Resistance, Nationalism 1941–1993 Daiva Stasiulis and Nira Yuval-Davis (eds), Unsettling Settler Societies: Articulations of Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Class Ping-Chun Hsiung, Living Rooms as Factories: Class, Gender, and the Satellite Factory System in Taiwan Rounaq Jahan, The Elusive Agenda: Mainstreaming Women in Development David Hulme and Michael Edwards (eds), NGOs, States and Donors. Too Close for Comfort? Olav Stokke (ed.), Foreign Aid Towards the Year 2000: Experiences and Challenges Graham Bird, IMF Lending to Developing Countries: Issues and Evidence Tony Killick, IMF Programmes in Developing Countries: Design and Impact Mahbub ul Haq, Richard Jolly, Paul Streeten and Khadija Haq (eds), The UN and The Bretton Woods Institutions. New Challenges for the Twenty First Century Will Martin and L. Alan Winters (eds), The Uruguay Round and the Developing Countries Gerd Nonneman (ed.), Political and Economic Liberalization. Dynamics & Linkages in Comparative Perspective Klaus Esser, Wolfgang Hillebrand, Dirk Messner and Jörg Meyer-Stamer, Systemic Competitiveness: New Governance Patterns for Industrial Development David C. Cole and Betty F. Slade, Building a Modern Financial System: The Indonesian Experience Gerry Rodgers, Klárá Fóti and Laurids Lauridsen (eds), The Institutional Approach to Labour and Development David G. Gutiérrez (ed.), Between Two Worlds. Mexican Immigrants in the United States Benno Galjart and Patricio Silva (eds), Designers of Development. Intellectuals and Technocrats in the Third World Christopher R. Dowswell, R. L. Palival and Ronald P. Cantrell, Maize in the Third World Brian Furze, Terry de Lacy and Jim Birckhead, with Phil Tracy and Gabrielle Wiltshire, Culture, Conservation and Biodiversity: The Social Dimension of Linking Local Level Development and Conservation Through Protected Areas Frank van Steenbergen, Institutional Change in Local Water Resource Management: Cases from Balochistan     

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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: Galliard, Jacques, Krishna, V.V. and Waast, Roland (eds) Scientific Communities in the Third World Emmerij, Louis (ed.) Economic and Social Development into the XXI Century Waterman, Peter Globalization, Social Movements and the New Internationalisms Bratton, Michael and van de Walle, Nicolas Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in a Comparative Perspective Sahn, David, Dorosh, Paul and Younger, Stephen Structural Adjustment Reconsidered: Economic Policy and Poverty in Africa Engberg‐Pedersen, Poul, Gibbon, Peter, Raikes, Phil and Udsholt, Lars (eds) Limits of Adjustment in Africa Fisher, Julie Nongovernments: NGOs and the Political Development of the Third World Werlin, Herbert The Mysteries of Development: Studies using Political Elasticity Theory Tendler, Judith Good Government in the Tropics Harris, Nigel and Fabricius, Ida (eds) Cities and Structural Adjustment Taylor, J. Edward and Adelman, Irma et al., Village Economies: The Design, Estimation, and Use of Village‐wide Economic Models van Dijk, Meine Pieter and Rabellotti, Roberta (eds) Enterprise Clusters and Networks in Developing Countries Deacon, Bob with Hulse, Michelle and Stubbs, Paul Global Social Policy. International Organisations and the Future of Welfare Cortright, David (ed.) The Price of Peace. Incentives and International Conflict Prevention Hanlon, Joseph Peace Without Profit: How the IMF Blocks Rebuilding in Mozambique Axinn, George H. and Axinn, Nancy W. Collaboration in International Rural Development. A Practitioner’s Handbook Crook, Nigel (edited by Timaeus, Ian M.) Principles of Population and Development, with Illustrations from Asia and Africa Marr, David G. Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power Curtis, Grant Cambodia Reborn? The Transition to Democracy and Development Argy, Victor and Stein, Leslie The Japanese Economy Lam, Wai Fung Governing Irrigation Systems in Nepal. Institutions, Infrastructure, and Collective Action Rittenberg, Libby (ed.) The Political Economy of Turkey in the Post‐Soviet Era. Going West and Looking East? Osaghae, Eghosa E. Crippled Giant: Nigeria since Independence Negash, Tekeste Eritrea and Ethiopia: The Federal Experience Prevost, Gary and Vanden, Harry E. (eds) The Undermining of the Sandinista Revolution Gould, Jeremy Localizing Modernity. Action, Interests and Association in Rural Zambia     

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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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David C. Korten, When Corporations Rule the World Nagesh Kumar, Multinational Enterprises and Industrial Organisation: The Case of India Amiya Kumar Bagchi (ed.), New Technology and the Workers' Response: Microelectronics, Labour and Society Richard Heeks, Prabhakara Bhatt, Mozammel Huq, Chris Lewis and Ahmed Shibli (eds), Technology and Developing Countries. Practical Applications, Theoretical Issues A. Pio (ed.), From Adjustment to Long-Run Growth. The Role of Human Capital and the Informal Sector Sonia Corrêa with Rebecca Reichmann, Population and Reproductive Rights: Feminist Perspectives from the South Gita Sen, Adrienne Germain and Lincoln Chen (eds), Population Policies Reconsidered. Health, Empowerment and Rights Marian A. L. Miller, The Third World in Global Environmental Politics Thaddeus C. Trzyna (ed.), A Sustainable World. Defining and Measuring Sustainable Development Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha, Ecology and Equity: The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India Melissa Leach, Rainforest Relations. Gender and Resource Use among the Mende of Gola, Sierra Leone Akhileshwar Pathak, Contested Domains—The State, Peasants and Forests in Contemporary India John Martinusson, Democracy, Competition and Choice: Emerging Local Self-Government in Nepal Myo Thant, Min Tang and Hiroshi Kakazu (eds), Growth Triangles in Asia: A New Approach to Regional Economic Cooperation W. G. Huff, The Economic Growth of Singapore: Trade and Development in the Twentieth Century K. S. Jomo, U-Turn? Malaysian Economic Development Policies after 1990 E. T. Gomez, Political Business: Corporate Involvement of Malaysian Political Parties Adam Fforde and Stefan de Vylder (eds), From Plan to Market: The Economic Transition in Vietnam Kathleen Barry (ed.), Vietnam's Women in Transition Michael R. DiGregorio, Urban Harvest: Recycling as a Peasant Industry in Northern Vietnam Elisabeth Croll, From Heaven to Earth: Images and Experiences of Development in China Per Pinstrup-Andersen (ed.), The Political Economy of Food and Nutrition Policies James Morton, The Poverty of Nations: The Aid Dilemma at the Heart of Africa John Sorenson (ed.), Disaster and Development in the Horn of Africa Andargachew Tiruneh, The Ethiopian Revolution 1974–1987. A Transformation from an Aristocratic to a Totalitarian Autocracy Gerard Prunier, The Rwanda Crisis; History of a Genocide 1959–1994 Tor Skalnes, The Politics of Economic Reform in Zimbabwe. Continuity and Change in Development Esbern Friis-Hansen, Seeds for African Peasants: Peasants' Needs and Agricultural Research: The Case of Zimbabwe Max Spoor, The State and Domestic Agricultural Markets in Nicaragua. From Interventionism to Neo-Liberalism Lúcio Kowarick (ed.), Social Struggles and the City: The Case of Sāo Paulo SEADE Foundation, Survey of Living Conditions in the Metropolitan Area of Sāo Paulo     

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Books reviewed: Raymond D. Crotty (ed.), When Histories Collide: The Development and Impact of Individualistic Capitalism Ben Fine, Costas Lapavitsas and Jonathan Pincus (eds), Development Policy in the Twenty‐First Century: Beyond the Post‐Washington Consensus Jonathan R. Pincus and Jeffrey Winters (eds), Reinventing the World Bank Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed, Behind the War on Terror: Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq J. R. Mandle, Globalization and the Poor Colin C. Williams and Jan Windebank, Poverty and the Third Way David Booth (ed.), Fighting Poverty in Africa: Are PRSPs Making a Difference? Catherine Campbell, Letting Them Die: Why HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes Fail Regina Scheyvens and Donovan Storey (eds), Development Fieldwork: A Practical Guide Dorothea Hilhorst, The Real World of NGOs: Discourses, Diversity and Development Claudio O. Delang (ed.), Living at the Edge of Thai Society: The Karen in the Highlands of Northern Thailand Govind Kelkar, Dev Nathan and Pierre Walter (eds), Gender Relations in Forest Societies in Asia: Patriarchy at Odds Jasveen Jairath, Water User Associations in Andhra Pradesh ‐‐– Initial Feedback Renana Jhabvala, Ratna M. Sudarshan and Jeemol Unni (eds), Informal Economy Centrestage: New Structures of Employment Tasneem Ahmad Siddiqui, Towards Good Governance Monique Nuijten, Power, Community and the State: The Political Anthropology of Organisation in Mexico Jan Joost Teunissen and Age Akkerman (eds), The Crisis that Was Not Prevented: Lessons for Argentina, The IMF and Globalization Richard N. Cooper and Richard Layard (eds), What the Future Holds: Insights from Social Science     

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Books reviewed: Inge Kaul, Isabelle Grunberg and Marc A. Stern (eds), Global Public Goods. International Cooperation in the 21st Century Edward Clay and Olav Stokke (eds), Food Aid and Human Security Mirjam van Reissen, EU ‘Global Player’: The North–South Policy of the European Union Sheila Page (ed.), Regions and Development: Politics, Security and Economics John Bailey and Roy Godson (eds), Organized Crime and Democratic Governability: Mexico and the US–Mexican Borderlands Peter Soderbaum, Ecological Economics Charles David Smith, Ecology, Civil Society and the Informal Economy in North West Tanzania Peter P. Mollinga (ed.), Water for Food and Rural Development. Approaches and Initiatives in South Asia Roger Jeffrey and Nandini Sundar (eds), A New Moral Economy for India’s Forests? Discourses of Community and Participation Rekha Wazir (ed.), The Gender Gap in Basic Education: NGOs as Change Agents Gail Wilson, Understanding Old Age: Critical and Global Perspectives Bhanoji Rao, East Asian Economies: The Miracle, A Crisis and The Future Jayati Ghosh, and C. P. Chandrasekhar, Crisis as Conquest, Learning from East Asia     

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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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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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Book reviewed in this article: Graciela Chichilnisky and Geoffrey Heal, The Evolving International Economy A.M. Choksi and D. Papageorgiou (eds), Economic Liberalization in Developing Countries George Wedell (ed.), Making Broadcasting Useful: The African Experience. The Development of Radio and Television in Africa in the 1980s Julia A. Walsh and Kenneth S. Warren (eds), Strategies for Primary Health Care: Technologies Appropriate for the Control of Disease in the Developing World David Morley and Hermione Lovel, My Name is Today: An Illustrated Discussion of Child Health, Society and Poverty in Less Developed Countries Margery Wolf Revolution Postponed. Women in Contemporary China     

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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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Books Reviewed: Ange Wieberdink, Troubled Waters: The Ambivalence of South–North Partnerships in Research for Development — A Case Study. Nicholas Stern, Jean‐Jacques Dethier and F. Halsey Rogers, Growth and Empowerment: Making Development Happen. Alan Bicker, Paul Sillitoe and Johan Pottier (eds), Development and Local Knowledge. Michael Klein and Tim Harford, The Market for Aid. David Ellerman, Helping People Help Themselves. David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Deborah Leipziger, The Corporate Responsibility Code Book. Janet Roitman, Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa. Fay Chung, Re‐Living the Second Chimurenga: Memories from Zimbabwe's Liberation Struggle. Norma Kriger, Guerrilla Veterans in Post‐War Zimbabwe: Symbolic and Violent Politics 1980–1987. Donald S. Moore, Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe. Craig Acerneaux and David Pion‐Berlin, Transforming Latin America: The International and Domestic Origins of Change. Rhoda E. Reddock (ed.), Interrogating Caribbean Masculinities: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses. Partha Nath Mukherji and Chandan Sengupta (eds), Indigeneity and Universality in Social Sciences: A South Asian Response. Tamar Horowitz, Bella Kotik‐Friedgut and Stefani Hoffman (eds), From Pacesetters to Dropouts: Post‐Soviet Youth in Comparative Perspective.     

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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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Sogge, D.; Biekart, K. and Saxby, J. (eds) Compassion and Calculation: The Business of Private Foreign Aid Ingham, Barbara Economics and Development Barraclough, Solon L. and Ghimire, Krishna B. Forests and Livelihoods: The Social Dynamics of Deforestation in Developing Countries Goddard, Victoria A. Gender, Family and Work in Naples Bhambhri, C. P. Indian Politics since Independence Bhambhri, C. P. The Indian State: Fifty Years Stinchcombe, Arthur L. Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment: The Political Economy of the Caribbean World Chevalier, Jacques M. and Buckles, Daniel A Land Without Gods: Process Theory, Maldevelopment and the Mexican Nahuas Lawson, Stephanie Tradition versus Democracy in the South Pacific: Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa