Book Reviews and Books Received

Author: NEEFJES, KOOS; Environments and Livelihoods: Strategies for Sustainability; Reviewer: Caroline Ashley; Editors: KLEINBERG, REMONDA BENSABAT and CLARK, JANINE A.; Economic Liberalization, Democratization and Civil Society in the Developing World; Reviewer: Walter Eberlei; Authors: CORBRIDGE, STUART and HARRISS, JOHN; Reinventing India: Liberalisation, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy; Reviewer: Gurharpal Singh; Author: SEABRIGHT, PAUL; The Vanishing Rouble: Barter Networks and Non-Monetary Transactions in Post-Soviet Societies; Reviewer: Alistair McAuley; Author: BRASS, TOM; Peasants, Populism and Postmodernism: The Return of the Agrarian Myth; Reviewer: James Overton; Author: MBAKU, J.M.; Bureaucratic and Political Corruption in Africa: The Public Choice Perspective; Reviewer: Robert Williams; Author: ROSE-ACKERMAN, SUSAN; Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences and Reform; Reviewer: Robert Williams; Author: FIELDS, GARY S.; Distribution and Development: A New Look at the Developing World; Reviewer: Arne Bigsten; Author: ABU SHAIR, OSANA J.A.R.; Privatization and Development; Reviewer: Stephen Trotter; Editors: COOK, PAUL, KIRKPATRICK, COLIN and NIXSON, FREDERICK; Privatization, Enterprise Development and Economic Reform: Experiences of Developing and Transitional Economies; Reviewer: Stephen Trotter; Editor: HARRIS, GEOFF; Recovery from Armed Conflict in Developing Countries: An Economic and Political Analysis; Reviewer: Paul Dunne     

Book reviews

Author: SALIH, M.A. MOHAMED; African Democracies and African Politics; Reviewer: Liiso Laakso; Author: MOLYNEUX, MAXINE; Women's Movements in International Perspective; Reviewer: Katie Willis; Author: ATHUKORALA, PREMA-CHANDRA; Crisis and Recovery in Malaysia: The Role of Capital Controls; Reviewer: Anne Booth; Author: RUTHERFORD, BLAIR A.; Working on the Margins: Black Workers, White Farmers in Postcolonial Zimbabwe; Reviewer: Angela Cheater; Editors: DESAI, VANDANA and POTTER, ROBERT B.; The Companion to Development Studies; Reviewer: Philipp H. Lepenies; Editor: SCOONES, IAN; Dynamics and Diversity: Soil Fertility and Farming Livelihoods in Africa; Reviewer: Michael Stocking; Editor: CHANG, HA-JOON; Joseph Stiglitz and the World Bank: The Rebel Within; Reviewer: Barry Riddell; Editors: GUERRIERI, PAOLO, IAMMARINO, SIMONA and PIETROBELLI, CARLO; The Global Challenge to Industrial Districts: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Italy and Taiwan; Reviewer: Michael J. Ryan; Authors: PAYNE, ANTHONY and SUTTON, PAUL; Charting Caribbean Development; Reviewer: Jean Stubbs     

Book reviews

Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture. By David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton. Cambridge: Polity, 1999. Pp.xxiii + 515. £59.50 and £16.99. ISBN 0 7456 1498 1 and 1499 X

Housing and Finance in Developing Countries. Edited by Kavita Datta and Gareth A. Jones. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp.xxiii + 270. £50. ISBN 0 415 17242 X

Comprehending and Mastering African Conflicts: The Search for Sustainable Peace and Good Governance. Edited by Adebayo Adedeji. London and New York: Zed Books, in association with African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies (Ijebu‐Ode, Nigeria), 1999. Pp.xxii + 384. £50 and £16.95. ISBN 1 85649 762 3 and 763 1

Income Poverty and Beyond: Human Development in India. Edited by Raja J. Chelliah and R. Sudarshan. New Delhi: Social Science Press, 1999. Pp.xxvi + 221. Rs 395. ISBN 81 87358 00 9

Fiscal Decentralisation in Developing Countries. Edited by Richard M. Bird and Francois Vaillancourt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp.xiv + 304. £37.50 (US$59.95). ISBN 0 521 64143 8

The Future of Development Assistance: Common Pools and International Public Goods. By Ravi Kanbur and Todd Sandier with Kevin M. Morrison. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1999. ODC Policy Essay No.25. Pp.x + 106. $34.95/£10.50. ISBN 1 56517 026 1

The Global Crisis in Foreign Aid. Edited by Richard Grant and Jan Nijman. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1998. Pp.xxiv + 224. $34.95. ISBN 0 8156 2771 8

Economic Development. By Michael P. Todaro. Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman, 2000. Seventh Edition. Pp.xxvi + 783. £24.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 201 64858 X

Growth and Development: With Special Reference to Developing Economies. By A.P. Thirlwall. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1999. Sixth Edition. Pp.xvii + 521. £62.50 and £21.99. ISBN 0 333 74678 3 and 74679 1

Economics of Development. By Malcolm Gillis, Dwight H. Perkins, Michael Roemer and Donald R. Snodgrass. London: W.W. Norton, 1996. Fourth Edition. Pp.xvi + 604. £23.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 393 96957 6

A Finger in the Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala. By Diane M. Nelson. Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 1999. $55.00 and $22.00. Pp.xvii + 450. ISBN 0 520 21284 3 and 21285 1     

Book reviews

Monetary and Financial Policies in Developing Countries: Growth and Stabilisation. By Akhtar Hossain and Anis Chowdhury. London: Routledge, 1996. Pp.x + 230. £40. ISBN 0 415 10870 5

Globalization in Question: The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance. By Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996. Pp.vi + 227. £45 and £12.95. ISBN 0 7456 1244 X and 1245 8

Aid and Political Conditionality. Edited by Olav Stokke (EADI Book Series 16). London: Frank Cass, 1995. Pp.xviii + 417.£35 and £19.50. ISBN 0 7146 4640 7 and 4162 6

Coping with Austerity: Poverty and Inequality in Latin America. Edited by Nora Lustig. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1995. Pp.xviii + 460. $39.95 and $18.50 ISBN 0 8157 5318 7 and 5317 9

Unshackling the Private Sector: A Latin American Story. By Paul Holden and Sarath Rajapatirana. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1995. $10.95. ISBN 0 8213 3336 4

Debating Development Discourse. Edited by David Moore and Gerald Schmitz (Foreword by Colin Leys). London: Macmillan, 1995. £40. ISBN 0 312 12886 X

Lessons in Economic Policy for Eastern Europe from Latin America. Edited by Gary McMahon. London: Macmillan, 1996. Pp.xxii + 256. £40. ISBN 0 333 64270 8     

Book reviews

United States Development Assistance Policy: The Domestic Politics of Foreign Economic Aid. By Vernon W. Ruttan. Baltimore, MD and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp.xxiv + 657. £54. ISBN 0 8018 5051 7

India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity. By Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp.292. £25. ISBN 0 19 829012 8

Regaining Marxism. By Ken Post. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press for Institute of Social Studies, 1996. Pp.x + 393. £45. ISBN 0 333 65444 7

Inflation and Investment Controls in China: The Political Economy of Central‐Local Relations during the Reform Era. By Yasheng Huang. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.xviii + 371. £40. ISBN 0 521 55483 7

The Village Concept in the Transformation of Rural Southeast Asia: Studies from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. Edited by Mason C. Hoadley and Christer Gunnarsson. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1996. Pp.xviii + 229. £35. ISBN 0 7007 0350 0

African Industry in Decline: The Case of Textiles in Tanzania in the 1980s. By Peter de Valk. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996. Pp.xii + 370. £45. ISBN 0 333 65445 5

The Urban Opportunity: The Work of the NGOs in Cities of the South. Edited by Nicolas Hall, Rob Hart and Diana Mitlin. London: Intermediate Technology Publications, 1996. Pp.xv + 128. £9.95 ISBN 1 85339 347 9

Doctrines of Development. By M.P. Cowen and R.W. Shenton. London: Routledge, 1996. Pp.xv + 554. £18.99. ISBN 0 415 12516 2

Democracy, Development and the Countryside: Urban‐Rural Struggles in India. By Ashutosh Varshney (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp.xi + 214. £35. 0 521 44153 6

Ethnicity and Development: Geographical Perspectives. Edited by Dennis Dwyer and David Drakakis‐Smith. Chichester: J. Wiley &; Sons, 1996. Pp.296. £35. ISBN 0 47196354 2

Indigenous Organizations and Development. Edited by Peter Blunt and D. Michael Warren. London: Intermediate Technology Publications, 1996. Pp.xv + 253. £16.95. ISBN 1 85339 321 5

Sustainable Tourism in Islands and Small States: Issues and Policies. Edited by Lino Briguglio, Brian Archer, Jafar Jafari and Geoffrey Wall. London: Pinter, 1996. Pp.xiii + 226. £45. ISBN 1 85567 371 1

Sustainable Tourism in Islands and Small States: Case Studies. Edited by Lino Briguglio, Richard Butler, David Harrison and Walter Leal Filho. London: Pinter, 1996. Pp.xiv + 317. £45. ISBN 1 85567 371 1

Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism. By Mahmood Mamdani (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp.xii + 356. (Also published: Kampala: Fountain Publishers. ISBN 9970 02 090 0; Cape Town: David Philip. ISBN 0 85255 399 4; London: James Currey. £14.95. ISBN 0 852555 399 4)     

Book reviews

Poverty, Progress and Exclusion: an Economic History of Latin America in the Twentieth Century. By Rosemary Thorp. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press for the Inter‐American Development Bank and the European Union, 1998. Pp.xiv + 369. £20.50. ISBN 1 886938 35 0

Economic Dynamism in the Asia‐Pacific: The Growth of Integration and Competitiveness. Edited by Graham Thompson. London: Routledge, 1998. Pp.402. £50 and £14.99. ISBN 0 415 17273 X and 17274 8

India and Pakistan: The First Fifty Years. Edited by Selig S. Harrison, Paul H. Kreisberg, and Dennis Kux. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp.xii + 217. £32.50 and £10.95. ISBN 0 521 64185 3 and 64585 9

Agencies in Foreign Aid: Comparing China, Sweden and the United States in Tanzania. Edited by Goran Hyden and Rwekaza Mukandala. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp.ix + 246. $69.95. ISBN 0 312 22098 7

Market Integration, Regionalism and the Global Economy. Edited by Richard E. Baldwin, Daniel Cohen, Andre Sapir and Anthony Venables. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xix + 344. £45 and £16.95. ISBN 0 521 64589 1 and 0 521 64181 0

Instruments of Change: Motivating and Financing Sustainable Development. By Theodore Panayotou. Earthscan in association with the United Nations Environment Programme, 1998. Pp.240. £19.95. ISBN 1 85383 467 X

Famine in Africa: Causes, Responses and Prevention. By Joachim von Braun, Tesfaye Teklu and Patrick Webb. Baltimore, MD and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Pp.xvii + 218. £32.50. ISBN 0 8018 6121 7

The East Asian Welfare Model: Welfare Orientalism and the State. Edited by Roger Goodman, Gordon White and Huck‐ju Kwon. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp.206. £17.99. ISBN 0 415 17211 X

Critical Development Theory: Contributions to a New Paradigm. Edited by Ronaldo Munck and Denis O'Hearn. London and New York: Zed Books, 1999. Pp.xx + 217. £39.95 and £22.50. ISBN 1 85649 637 6 and 638 4

Streetlife China: Transforming Culture, Rights and Markets. By Michael Dutton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp.xvi + 304. £13.95 (US$19.95) and £37.50 (US$54.95). ISBN 0 521 63719 8 and 63141 6     

Book Notes

Book review in this article
Development Administration in Latin America Clarence E.Thurber and Lawrence S.Graham (eds.).
Comparative Public Administration: An Ecological Approach Ramesh K.Arora.
Executive Ombudsmen in the United States Alan J.Wymer (ed.).
Ombudsmen Around the World: A Comparative Chart Kent M.Weeks.
The Application of Information Processing in Public Administration .
Towards Central Government Computer Policies .
Cost-Benefit Analysis in Local Government
Benefit Cost and Policy Analysis 1972 William A.Niskanen.
Introduction of Programme and Performance Budgeting in Ceylon Ranjith M.Withana.
Performance Appraisal in Perspective Deidre Gill
Education after Reorganization: Trad or Progressive W.J.McKechin.
Admission of Patients to Hospital Howard Baderman
The State's Servants: The Civil Service of the English Republic
Handbook on Pensions and Employee Benefits Clifford Hymans.
The Sunderland Study (two volumes) .
The Rotherham Study (two volumes)
The Oldham Study
City Centre Redevelopment John Holliday
The Poverty of Planning: Crisis in the Urban Environment Thomas L.Blair.
Urban Development in Melbourne
Municipal Finance and Income Distribution in Sydney Ian Manning.
Public Authorities and Development in Melbourne John C.Pickett.
Regional Development — its Effect on Urban Growth Queensland Regional Group
Aspects of the Brisbane City Council's Administrative Organization J.D.Tucker.
Parliamentary Influence on the Efficiency of the Commonwealth Public Service
Court Organization and Administration: A Bibliography Dorothy Campbell Tompkins (comp.)
Justice by Tribunals M.M.Singh
Outdoor Recreation and the Urban Environment I.H.Seeley     

Books received

The following books have been received for review. Appearance in this review does not preclude review in a subsequent issue. Anyone wishing to act as a reviewer of any of the books should contact Jonathan Atkins, Book Reviews Editor, Journal of Development Studies, School of Economic Studies, University of Hull, HU6 7RX, UK. E-mail: J.P.Atkins@econ.hull.ac.uk. Fax: +44 (0)1482 466216. The Book Reviews Editor also welcomes expressions of interest in forthcoming books or books which have been published and not received by the Journal.     

Books received

The Economy of Bangladesh. By Azizur Rahman Khan. London : Macmillan and New York: St. Martins Press, 1972. Pp. xviii + 196; £4.95.

Matching Employment Opportunities and Expectations: A Programme of Action for Ceylon. Report by the International Labour Office. Geneva, 1971. Pp. xvii + 251; £1.60 and U.S.$4.

Price Consistency in Development Planning. By Peter A. Cornelisse. Rotterdam University Press, 1973. Pp. xiv + 154 n.p.

The Mexican Economy: Twentieth‐Century Structure and Growth. By Clark W. Reynolds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970. Pp. xxiv, 468; £6.05.

Nutrition, National Development and Planning. Edited by A. Berg, N. S. Scrimshaw and D. L. Call. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T., 1973. Pp. 400. £4–50.

The Nutrition Factor: its Role in National Development. By Alan Berg, Portions with Robert J. Muscat. Washington: The Brookings Institution, 1973. Pp. xii 4‐ 290, Tables, Figures. $8.95.

The Ecology of Malnutrition in Mexico and Central America. By Jacques M. May and Donna L. McLellan. New York: Hafner, 1972. Pp. xiii + 397, tables, maps; £7.50.

The Ecology of Malnutrition in the Caribbean. By Jacques M. May and Donna L. McLellan. New York: Hafner, 1973. Pp. viii + 490, tables, maps; £9.95.     

Books Received

The following books have been received for review. Appearance in this review does not preclude review in a subsequent issue. Anyone wishing to act as a reviewer of any of the books should contact Jonathan Atkins, Book Reviews Editor, Journal of Development Studies, School of Economic Studies, University of Hull, HU6 7RX, UK. E-mail: J.P.Atkins@econ.hull.ac.uk. Fax: +44 (0)1482 466216. The Book Reviews Editor also welcomes expressions of interest in forthcoming books or books which have been published and not received by the Journal.     

Reorienting development administration

Development By People: Citizen Construction of a Just World. By Guy Gran. New York: Praeger, UK distributor Holt‐Saunders, 1983. Pp.xxiv + 480. £34.50 and £9.95.ISBN 0 03 063294 3 and 063296 X.

No Shortcuts to Progress: African Development Management in Perspective. By Goran Hyden. London: Heinemann, 1983. Pp.xv + 223. £12.50 and £4.95. ISBN 0 435 96303 1 and 96302 3.

Development Projects as Policy Experiments: An Adaptive Approach to Development Administration. By Dennis A. Rondinelli, London: Methuen, 1983. £10.95 and £4.95. Pp.ix + 167. ISBN 0 416 73630 0 and 73640 8.

The Challenge of Integrated Rural Development in India: A Policy and Management Perspective. By Gerald E. Sussman. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, UK distributor Bowker, 1983. Pp.xvi + 178. £22. ISBN 0 86531 922 7.     

Education: The management of the teaching profession—A note

Responding to Poverty: The Politics of Cash and Care. By Saul Becker. London, 1997. Pp.223. £12.99 pb.

Equal Opportunities and Social Policy. By Barbara Bagilhole. Longman, 1997. Pp.221. £14.99.

Policies for a Just Society. By David Donnison. Macmillan, 1998. pp.218. £40.00 hb; £12.50 pb.

Partnership against Poverty and Exclusion? By Mike Geddes. The Policy Press, 1997. Pp.136. £12.95 pb.

Youth, the ‘Underclass’ and Social Exclusion. By Robert MacDonald. Routledge, 1997. Pp.228. £45.00 hb; £13.99 pb.

Affirming the Comprehensive Ideal. By Richard Pring and Geoffrey Walford. Falmer, 1997. Pp.209. £42.00 hb; £14.95 pb.

Punishment in the Community: The Future of Criminal Justice. By Anne Worrall. Longman, 1997. Pp.170. £12.99 pb.     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this article
The Modernization of British Government W. Thornhill (ed).
Economic Planning and Politics in Britain Jacques Leruez
Econocrats and the Policy Process: The Politics and Philosophy of Cost-Benefit Analysis Peter Self
Social Service Budgets and Social Policy: British and American Experience H. Glennerster
Environmental Planning 1939–69, Volume II. National Parks and Recreation in the Countryside Gordon E. Cherry
Swindon: A Town in Transition, A Study in Urban Development and Overspill Policy Michael Harloe
Support for the Arts in England and Wales Lord Redcliffe-Maud
Agriculture D. Murray et al.     

The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China's Transition

Cities, Poverty, and Development: Urbanization in the Third World. By Alan Gilbert and Josef Gugler. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. ix + 246. £15 and £6.95. ISBN 0 19 874083 2 and 874084 0.

Urbanization in Contemporary Latin America: Critical Approaches to the Analysis of Urban Issues. Edited by Alan Gilbert in association with Jorge Hardoy and Ronaldo Ramirez. Chichester: Wiley, 1982. Pp. xv + 286. £26. ISBN 0 471 101834.

National Urbanization Policy in Developing Countries. By Bertrand Renaud. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the World Bank, 1981. Pp. x + 181. £12 and £5.95. ISBN 0 19 520264 3 and 520265 1.

Towards a Political Economy of Urbanization in Third World Countries. Edited by Helen Safa. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp. xvi + 315. £4.95. ISBN 0 19 561307 4.

Survey of Slum and Squatter Settlements. By United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UNCHS/Habitat). Dublin: Tycooly International Publishing, 1982. Pp. ix + 197. £17.50 and £11.50. ISBN 0 907567 24 X and 25 8.     

List of Referees from August 2000 to July 2001 (Inclusive)

The Editors of The Journal of Development Studies wish to acknowledge the assistance of the following persons who have served as referees between August 2000 and July 2001.     

List of Referees & End Matter

The Editors of The Journal of Development Studies wish to acknowledge the assistance of the following persons who have served as referees between August 1999 and July 2000.     

Book Reviews

Book Reveiwed in this article
Policy and Politics. Essays in Honour of Norman Chester Edited by David Butler and A.H. Halsey.
The Politics of Bureaucracy: A Comparative Perspective B. Guy Peters
The Commission for Local Administration. A Preliminary Appraisal . Norman Lewis and Bernard Gateshill.
William Beveridge. A Biography José Harris
Universality, Selectivity, and Effectiveness in Social Policy Bleddyn Davies, in association with Michael Reddin.
Rationing Social Services Ken Judge.
Restructuring the Health Service Tom Heller.
The Politics of Housing in Britain and France Roger H. Duclaud-Williams
Intergovernmental Relations in the European Community C. Hull and R. A.W. Rhodes.
The Administration of British Foreign Policy, 1782–1846 Charles R. Middleton.
The Bureaucracy in India: An Historical Analysis of Development up to 1947 B.B. Misra.     

Book Notes

Book Reviewed in this article:
Politics, Position and Power: The Dynamics of Federal 0rganization Harold Seidman. 2nd ed.
Policy Analysis in Public Policymaking Thomas D. Lynch.
A Decade of Public Administration in Africa Anthony H. Rweyemamu and Goran Hyden (eds.).
Management Training for Development: The Asian Experience Inayatullah (ed.).
International Bureaucracy Thomas George Weiss.
Studies in Politics F.F. Ridley (ed).
Social Policy and Citizenship Julia Parker.
A Textbook of Personnel Management George Thomason.
The Child's Generation: Child Care Policy from Curtis to Houghton Jean Packman.
Action-Research in Community Development Ray Lees and George Smith.
Slamming the Door: The Administration of Immigration Control Robert Moore & Tina Wallace.
Local Government Administrative Practice R.E.C. Jewell.
Congress Against The President Harvey C. Mansfield, Sr. (ed).
Managing Change Hugh Marlow.
Management of an Urgent Public Works Project D.Rothwel1 and others.
Bracknell and its Migrants: Twenty-One Years of New Town Growth Audrey A, Ogilvy
Community Action and Local Government Sean Baine.
Inflation, Growth and International Finance Sir Alec Cairncross.
The Art of Anticipation: Values and Methods in Forecasting Solomon Encel and others (eds).
Hours of Work in Industrialized Countries Archibald A. Evans.
Gypsies and Government Policy in England Barbara Adams and others.
Home Help Janet Marks.     

Book Reviews

Book Reveiwed in this article
Administering Britain Brian C. Smith and Jeffrey Stanyer
The Quest for Control: A Critique of the Rational-Central Rule Approach in Public Affairs . H. Van Gunsteren
Staff Appraisal and Development E. Anstey. C. Fletcher, J. Walker.
The Consume Cause: A Short Account of its Organization, Development, Power and Importance Ronald Wraith
Government and the Planning Process P. H. Levin.
Public Expenditure in Practice Lord Diamond
A Tax Shall Be Charged Dorothy Johnstone.
Value for Money in Health Services B. Abel-Smith.
Personnel Management in Local Government Alan Fowler.
Welfare State and Welfare Society: Illusion and Reality William A. Robson.
The Sale of Council Houses: A Study in Social Policy
Housing Policy and the Housing System Alan Murie
The Foreign Policy Process in Britain William Wallace.