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Journal of Development Studies, 1998, vol. 34, issue 3, 135-159

Abstract: Community Development around the World: Practice, Theory, Research and Training. Edited by Hubert Campferns. Toronto and London: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Pp.xvi + 481. NP. ISBN 0 8020 0903 4 and 7884 2 Cultural Perspectives on Development. Edited by Vincent Tucker. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass/EADI, 1997. Pp.136. £16. ISBN 0 7146 4337 8 Questioning Development: Essays in the Theory, Policies and Practice of Development Interventions. Edited by Gabriele Kohler, Charles Gore, Utz-Peter Reich and Thomas Ziesemer. Marhurg: Metropolis-Verlag, 1996. Pp.450. NP. ISBN 3 895180750 Development Economics: From the Poverty to the Wealth of Nations. By Yujiro Hayami. Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp.xx + 316. £40. ISBN 0 19 829207 4 Development Economics. By Richard Grabowski and Michael Shields. Cambridge, MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 1996. Pp.xi + 299. £21.99. ISBN 1 55786 706 2 The Process of Economic Development. By James Cypher and James Dietz. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp.xxiii + 608. £65 and £19.99. ISBN 0 415 11027 0 and 11028 9 The Diploma Disease: Education, Qualification and Development. By Ron Dore. Second Edition. London: Institute of Education, 1997. Pp.xxxii + 214. £7.95. ISBN 0 85473 498 8 Special Issue: The Diploma Disease Twenty Years On,Assessment in Education, Vol.4, No.1, 1997. Pp.208. ISSN 0969 594 X The Environment and Emerging Development Issues (2 volumes). Edited by Partha Dasgupta and Karl-Goran Maler. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp.xviii + 593. £30 (Vol.1); £35 (Vol.2). ISBN 0 19 828767 4 (Volume 1); 0 19 828768 2 (Volume 2) The Economic Organization of East Asian Capitalism. By Marco Orru, Nicole Woolsey Biggart and Gary G. Hamilton. London and New Delhi: Sage, 1997. Pp.xii + 426. £43 and £19.95. ISBN 0 7619 0479 4 and 0480 8 Power in Motion. Capital Mobility and the Indonesian State. By Jeffrey A. Winters. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1996. Pp.xvi + 241. £27.50. ISBN 0 8014 3148 4 Environmental Change in South East Asia: People, Politics and Sustainable Development. Edited by Michael J.G. Parnwell and Raymond L. Bryant. London: Routledge, 1996. Pp.383. £50 and £15.99. ISBN 0 415 12933 8 Big Men, Small Boys and Politics in Ghana: Power, Ideology and the Burden of History, 1982-94. By Paul Nugent. London and New York: Pinter, 1996. Pp.xiv + 306. £49.50. ISBN 1 85567 373 8 Rural Industrialization in Indonesia: A Case Study of Community-Based Weaving Industry in West Java. By Kosuke Mizuno. Tokyo; Institute of Developing Economies, Occasional Papers Series No.31, 1996. Pp.viii + 114. US$58. ISBN 4 258 52031 4 Missing a Moving Target? Colonist Technology Development on the Amazon Frontier. By Michael Richards. London: Overseas Development Institute, 1997. Pp.xvi + 94. £10.95. ISBN 0 85003 301 2 Societies and Nature in the Sahel. By Claude Raynaut. London: Routledge, 1997. Pp.xxiii + 351. £50. ISBN 0415 14102 8 Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania. By Aili Mari Tripp. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 1997. Pp.xxii + 260. £38 and £13.95. ISBN 0 520 20278 3 and 20279 1

Date: 1998
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