Progress in Development Studies

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Volume 12, issue 4, 2012

New corporate social responsibility models for oil companies in Nigeria’s delta region: What challenges for sustainability? pp. 259-273

Kiikpoye K. Aaron

Gender, family and care provision in developing countries:Towards gender equality pp. 275-300

Almudena Moreno Mínguez

Negotiating gender equality in development organizations:The role of agency in the institutionalization of new norms and practices pp. 301-314

Fenella Porter

A comparative analysis of solar home system programmes in China, Laos, Mongolia and Papua New Guinea pp. 315-335

Benjamin K. Sovacool and Anthony L. D’Agostino

Toxic technical assistance in conditions of state fragility: Field notes from Iraq pp. 337-352

Peter Blunt

Book review: Hitchcock, Michael, King, Victor T. and Parnwell, Michael, editors, 2010: Heritage Tourism in Southeast Asia pp. 353-355

Andrew J. Spencer

Book review: Jackson, M. 2011: Life Within Limits: Well-being in a World of Want pp. 355-357

Laura Camfield

Book review: Leatherman, Janie L. 2011: Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict pp. 357-358

Colette Harris

Book Review: McDonald, B.L. 2010: Food Security pp. 359-360

Oscar Alfranca

Book Review: Smith, J. 2010: Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk: The Biggest Change in North–South Relationships Since Colonialism? pp. 360-362

Jonas Heirman

Volume 12, issue 2-3, 2012

Introduction: Beyond the ‘post’ and revisionist discourses in African development: Exploring real solutions to Africa’s problems pp. 93-98

B. Ikubolajeh Logan, Francis Y. Owusu and Ezekiel Kalipeni

Rethinking responses to state failure, with special reference to Africa pp. 99-111

Brennan M. Kraxberger

Ethnic federalism and its potential to dismember the Ethiopian state pp. 113-133

Assefa Mehretu

Organizational culture and public sector reforms in a post–Washington consensus era: Lessons from Ghana’s good reformers pp. 135-151

Francis Y. Owusu

The brain drain of health care professionals from sub-Saharan Africa: A geographic perspective pp. 153-171

Ezekiel Kalipeni, Linda L. Semu and Margaret Asalele Mbilizi

Towards a reorientation in land reform: From a market to locality-driven approach in South Africa’s land restitution programme pp. 173-191

B. Ikubolajeh Logan, George Tengbeh and Brilliant Petja

Neoliberalization, decentralization and community-based natural resources management in Malawi: The first sixteen years and looking ahead pp. 193-212

Leo Charles Zulu

Lessons from the old Green Revolution for the new: Social, environmental and nutritional issues for agricultural change in Africa pp. 213-229

Rachel Bezner Kerr

Is ICT the panacea to sub-Saharan Africa’s development problems? Rethinking Africa’s contentious engagement with the global information society pp. 231-244

Peter A. Kwaku Kyem

Book Review: Understanding Economic Development: A Global Transition from Poverty to Prosperity? pp. 245-246

Oscar Alfranca

Book Review: Development Theory: Deconstructions/Reconstructions pp. 246-248

Zach Gable, Danielle Huot, Shahzad Muhammad, Riaz Nathu, Victor Saraiva de Almeida, Zhenzhong Si and Steffanie Scott

Book Review: Understanding Tourism: A Critical Introduction pp. 248-250

Jeffrey T. Goodlander

Book Review: The Global Political Economy of the Environment and Tourism pp. 250-252

Andrew J. Spencer

Book Review: Tourism in Southeast Asia: Challenges and New Directions pp. 252-254

Ken Whalen

Book Review: Globalizing Citizens: New Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion pp. 254-255

Suzette Martin-Johnson

Book Review: Development Dramas: Reimagining Rural Political Action in Eastern India pp. 255-257

Karin Kapadia

Volume 12, issue 1, 2012

Why do people do stuff? Reconceptualizing remittance behaviour in diaspora-development research and policy pp. 1-18

Ben Page and Claire Mercer

Developments in the efficiency of the Malaysian banking sector: the impacts of financial disruptions and exchange rate regimes pp. 19-46

Fadzlan Sufian and Muzafar Shah Habibullah

A volatile interaction between peacebuilding priorities: road infrastructure (re)construction and land rights in Afghanistan pp. 47-61

Jon Unruh and Mourad Shalaby

Spaces of civil society: the role of migrant non-governmental organizations in Beijing and Shanghai pp. 63-76

Jennifer Y.J. Hsu

Government expenditure and growth in developing countries pp. 77-82

Minh Quang Dao

Book review: Peacebuilding: Preventing Violent Conflict in a Complex World pp. 83-84

Dalea Bean

Book review: Why Doesn’t Microfinance Work?: The Destructive Rise of Local Neoliberalism pp. 84-86

Claudio Cattaneo

Book review: Tackling Chronic Poverty: The Policy Implications of Research on Chronic Poverty and Poverty Dynamics pp. 86-88

Frank Ellis

Book review: Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development pp. 88-90

Dhanaraj Thakur

Book review: Transnational Corporations and Development Policy, Rethinking International Development Series pp. 90-92

Greg Hiemstra- van der Horst

Volume 11, issue 4, 2011

Immigration and integration pp. 263-284

Stephanie Kotin, Grace R. Dyrness and Clara Irazábal

Food security in Southern African cities pp. 285-305

Jonathan Crush, Alice Hovorka and Daniel Tevera

Neoliberalism is dead, long live neoliberalism? Neostructuralism and the international aid regime of the 2000s pp. 307-319

Warwick E. Murray and John D. Overton

Technological innovation, global justice and politics of development pp. 321-338

Theo Papaioannou

Evaluating sport-for-development pp. 339-353

Roger Levermore

Asher, K. 2009: Black and Green: Afro-Colombians, Development, and Nature in the Pacific Lowlands. London: Duke University Press. 272 pp. £69.00 cloth, £17.99 paper. ISBN: 978 0 8223 4487 2 cloth, 978 0 8223 4483 4 paper pp. 355-357

Keith Lindner

Andolina, R. Laurie, N. and Radcliffe, S. 2009: Indigenous Development in the Andes: Culture, Power and Transnationalism. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4540-4 paper £15.99, 978-0-8223-4523-7 library cloth edition, £65.00 pp. 357-358

Michelle Carnegie

Deneulin, Séverine and Bano, Masooda. 2009: Religion in Development: Rewriting the Secular Script. London: Zed. 184 pp. $16.99 paperback. ISBN: 978 1 84813 001 2 pp. 359-360

Suzanne Hanson

Ellis, F., Devereux, S. and White, P. 2009: Social Protection in Africa. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar. xii + 294 pp. £85.00 hardback, £23.75 paperback. ISBN: 978 1 84844 258 0 hardback, 978 1 84844 364 8 paperback pp. 360-362

Petra Tschakert

Perry, P.J. 2007: Myanmar (Burma) since 1962: The Failure of Development. Aldershot: Ashgate. 224 pp. £55.00 hardback. ISBN: 9780754645344 pp. 362-364

Nicholas Farrelly

Volume 11, issue 3, 2011

Sport for decolonization pp. 183-196

Simon C. Darnell and Lyndsay M.C. Hayhurst

Women workers in the apparel sector pp. 197-209

Kanchana N. Ruwanpura

Time machines and virtual portals pp. 211-227

Mark Graham

Research with experimental games pp. 229-241

Cecile Jackson

The Agahozo-Shalom youth village pp. 243-250

Noam Schimmel

Andreasson, Stefan. 2010: Africa’s Development Impasse: Rethinking the Political Economy of Transformation. London: Zed Books. 256 pp. £17.99 paperback, £65 hardback. ISBN-10: 1842779729 paperback, 1842779710 hardback pp. 251-253

Marta Conde

Dyson, T. 2010: Population and Development: The Demographic Transition. London and New York: Zed Books. xv + 269 pp. ISBN: 9781842779606 paper, £16.99 pp. 253-256

Sylvia Chant

Managi, S. and Kaneko, S. 2009: Chinese Economic Development and the Environment: New Horizons in Environmental Economics Series. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 332 pp. £79.95 cloth. ISBN: 978-1-84844-550-5 pp. 256-258

Troy Sternberg

Masis, D.P. and Smith, P.C., editors. 2009: Health Care Systems in Developing and Tran-sition Countries: The Role of Research Evidence. Gloucester: Edward Elgar. 363 pp. £89.95 hardback. ISBN: 987-1-84844-002-9 pp. 258-259

Mercy Mvundura

Miguel, E. 2009: Africa’s Turn? A Boston Review Book. London: The MIT Press. xii + 161 pp. £9.95 cloth. ISBN: 978-0-262-01289 8 pp. 260-261

Paul G. Munro

Volume 11, issue 2, 2011

Engaging with Islam to promote women’s rights pp. 87-99

Nida Kirmani and Isabel Phillips

Livelihoods, capitals and livelihood trajectories pp. 101-117

Tara van Dijk

Poverty in small-scale fisheries pp. 119-144

Christophe Béné and Richard M. Friend

Children and development III pp. 145-149

Gareth A. Jones

Putting good governance into practice III pp. 151-161

Conor Farrington

Carey, S.C., 2009: Protest, Repression and Political Regimes: An Empirical Analysis of Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. London and New York: Routledge. 128 pp. £75.00. ISBN: 978-0-415-42484-4 pp. 163-165

Federico Ferretti

Collins, D., Morduch, J., Rutherford, S. and Ruthven, O., 2009: Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day. Cape Town: Cape Town University Press. 283 pp. £20.95 hard. ISBN-10: 0-691-14148-7 pp. 165-166

Katharine Vincent and Tracy Cull

Gallagher, Kevin P. and Daniel Chudnovsky, editors, 2009: Rethinking Foreign Investment for Sustainable Development: Lessons from Latin America. London: Anthem Press. 322 pp. £60.00. ISBN-10: 1843313162 pp. 166-168

HÃ¥vard Haarstad

Gay, D., 2009: Reflexivity and Development Economics: Methodology, Policy and Practice. London: Palgrave MacMillian. 224 pp. £65.00 hard. ISBN: 0-230 22016-9 pp. 168-170

Bimbika Sijapati Basnett

Higate, P. and Henry, M., 2009: Insecure Spaces: Peacekeeping, Power and Performance in Haiti, Kosovo and Liberia. London: Zed Books. xiii + 189 pp. £65.00 cloth, £18.99 paper. ISBN: 9781842778869 cloth, 9781842778876 paper pp. 170-172

Fiona McConnell

Kapoor, D., editor, 2009: Education, Decolonization, and Development: Perspectives from Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. £25.00 paper, £65.00 hard. ISBN: 9-087 90924-1 paper, 9-087-90925-X hard pp. 172-174

Simon C. Darnell

Korieh, C.J. and Okeke-Ihejirika, P., editors, 2009: Gendering Global Transformations: Gender, Culture, Race, and Identity. London: Routledge. xii + 291 pp. £57.00 hard. ISBN: 978-0-415-96321-1 pp. 174-176

Winnie Tam Hung

MacLachlan, M., Carr, S.C. and McAuliffe, E., 2010: The Aid Triangle: Recognizing the Human Dynamics of Dominance, Justice and Identity. London and New York: Zed Books, Halifax: Fernwood Publishing. 172 pp. £60.00 cloth, £15.99 paper. ISBN: 9781 842779101 cloth, 9781842779118 paper pp. 176-178

Lynne Wyness

Meagher, K., 2010: Identity Economics: Social Networks and the Informal Economy in Nigeria. Oxford and Ibadan: James Currey and HEBN Publishers. xiv + 208 pp. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 978-1-84701-016-2 (James Currey paper), 978-978-0813734 (HEBN paper) pp. 178-180

Sylvia Chant

Shigetomi, S. and Makino, K., editors, 2009: Protest and Social Movements in the Developing World. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 256 pp. £65.00 hard. ISBN: 978-1-84844-362-4 pp. 181-182

Susannah Fisher

Volume 11, issue 1, 2011

Corporate social responsibility and developing countries pp. 1-18

Uwafiokun Idemudia

Making development more ‘fit for purpose’ pp. 19-32

Janet Gruber

Inclusive neoliberalism? pp. 33-61

Thomas Klak, James Wiley, Emma Gaalaas Mullaney, Swetha Peteru, Seann Regan and Jean-Yves Merilus

Debating the merits of biotech crop adoption in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 63-68

Brian M. Dowd-Uribe and Jim Bingen

Religion and development I pp. 69-76

Martin Rew

Amanor, K.S. and Moyo, S., editors, 2008: Land and Sustainable Development in Africa. London: Zed Books Ltd. xiii+226pp. £60.00 hardback. ISBN: 9781842779125; £17.99 paperback. ISBN: 9781842779132 pp. 77-79

Nick James

Hasegawa, K. 2004: Constructing Civil Society in Japan: Voices of Environmental Movements. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press. xii+;312 pp. £48.00, £19.99 paperback. ISBN: 978-1876843670 cloth, 978-1876843731 paperback pp. 79-81

Bill Sewell

Madon, S. 2009: E-governance for Development: A Focus on Rural India. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. £55 cloth. ISBN 9780230201576 pp. 81-82

Gianluca Miscione

Ocompo, J., Jomo, K.S. and Vos, R., editors, 2007: Growth Divergences: Explaining Differences in Economic Performance. Hyderabad: Oriental Longman; London/New York: Zed Books; Penang: Third World Network, in association with the United Nations. xi+369pp. £17.99/$29.95 paperback. ISBN-13: 978 184277 881 4 pp. 83-84

Voxi Heinrich Amavilah

Saith, A., Vijayyabaskar, M. and Gayatri, V., editors, 2008: ICTs and Indian Social Change: Diffusion, Poverty, Governance. New Delhi. SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd. 424 pp. ISBN 81-7829-776-7 pp. 84-86

Dhanaraj Thakur