The following books are available for review in PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT
STUDIES
Reviews are expected to be about 1000 words, and should be delivered by
December 15 2006.
Please send me:
- your top two choices
- your affiliation
- your land address
- a fax number
You can also see this list (constantly updated) on
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/forsytht/PIDS_Books_for_Review.htm
PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES is an international journal cited in
international indexing and Ingenta and Business Source Direct
(websources). We welcome subscriptions and submitted papers on all
aspects of international development. We specialize on review papers of
important topics of development theory and practice, but can also
publish case studies and other empirical work. See:
http://www.pidsjournal.com
Thank you
Tim Forsyth
Development Studies Institute, LSE
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Negotiating Trade: Developing countries in the WTO and NAFTA
Ed J Odell
Cambridge Uni Press, 2006 8 chapters, 298pp
various case studies, analyses, no econometrics
Chronic poverty and development policy in India
Eds A Mehta and A Shepherd
Sage 2006 12 chapters, pp411
various aspects of poverty, some statistics
Globalising rural development: Competing paradigms and emerging
realities
Ed MC Behera
Sage, 2006 17 chapters, pp462
various case studies, thematic overviews, seems an excellent summary
China's rural economy after WTO: problems and strategies
Ed Shunfeng Song and Aimin Chen
Ashgate, 2006 20 chapters, 376pp
many themes; gender, poverty, migration, governance, largely economic
approach
China's Agricultural Development: challenges and prospects
eds: Xiao-yuan Dong et al
Ashgate, 2006 16 chapters, 283pp
various studies, some statistical analysis
Managing cities in developing countries: the theory and practice of
urban management
M van Dijk
Elgar, 2006 13 chapters, 212pp
general discussion, with some examples from China, Ethiopia, India
International poverty law: an emerging discourse
Ed L Williams
Zed, 2006 9 chapters, pp 250
law, poverty, this book may be reviewed together with the one following
Indigenous peoples and poverty: an international perspective
Eds. R Eversole, J McNeish, A Cimadamore
Zed, 2006 16 chapters, 311pp
various case studies from around the world
Inequality, poverty and well-being
Ed M McGillivray
Ashgate, 2006 11 chapters, pp270
econometrics, various analyzes of indices incorporating various aspects
of development
The social economics of poverty: on identities, communities, group and
networks
Ed C. Barrett
Routledge, 2005 15 chapters, 409pp
econometrics, varied chapters, various aspects of development theory in
various locations
Food aid after fifty years: recasting its role
C Barrett and D Maxwell
Routledge, 2005 11 chapters, 314pp
political history, analysis, focus on institutions and general trends
Researching the culture in agri-culture: social research for
international development
Eds. M Cernea and A Kassam
CABI, 2006 22 chapters, pp497
various case studies and applications, full, thorough volume
Conflict and the Refugee Experience: Flight, exile and repatriation in
the Horn of Africa
A Bariagaber
Ashgate, 2006 9 chapters, 180pp
very focused on Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia; descriptive, no statistics
Doing development research
Eds V Desai and R Potter
Sage, 2006 31 chapters, 324 pp
full guide to students of various levels of research
African gender studies: A reader
Ed O Oyewumi
Palgrave, 2005 22 chapters, 433 pp
various aspects of gender theory: decolonizing, writing, history,
development etc
Women and gender equity in development theory and practice:
institutions, resources and mobilization
Eds J Jaquette and G Summerfield
Duke, 2006 14 chapters, 364pp
broad-based review of various aspects of gender in development
management
The Health of Refugees: Public health Perspectives from Crisis to
Settlement
Ed. Pascale Allotey
Oxford Uni Press, 2003 232pp, 14 chapters
Subject: Public health, refugees, worldwide
Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader
Kevin Bales
UC California Press, 2005 212pp, 8 chapters
Subject: human rights, labor markets, NGO actions, historical and
contemporary approach
The Indonesian rural economy: Mobility, work and enterprise
Ed T Leinbach
ISEAS, 2004 316pp, 12 chapters
Subject: economic development, non-mathematical economics
Multinational corporations in Indonesia and Thailand
Ed E Ramstetter and F Sjoholm
Ashgate 2006 8 chapters, pp229
some statistics, but not econometric, thorough survey of different
sectors
Postconflict Development: Meeting new challenges
eds G June and W Verkoven
Rienner, 2005 370pp, 17 chapters
Subject: various aspects of postconflict development, rather like a
textbook, various themes discussed: economics, environment, media,
education, health, reconstruction etc
The quest for environmental justice: Human rights and the politics of
pollution
Ed R Bullard
The Sierra Club, 2005 pp393, 14 Chapters
only 5 chapters re developing countries, SAfrica, Nigeria included, most
chapters on the USA
Too sensational: On the choice of exchange rate regimes
W Max Corden
MIT Press, 2002 274pp,14 chapters
Economics, fiscal policy, examples from Latin America, Asia, Europe,
some economic diagrams, but no mathematical formulae
Investigating Local Knowledge: new directions, new approaches
Eds A Bicker, P SIllitoe, J Pottier
Ashgate, 2004 237pp, 10 chapters
Anthropology, diverse examples from Nepal, Canada, and other places
Global Citizens: Social Movements and the Challenge of Globalization
M Mayo
Zed 2005 224pp,10 chapters
Global civil society, peace, debt relief, education examples
Practitioners and Poverty Alleviation: Influencing Urban Poverty from
the ground up
Ed S Jones and N Nelson
ITDG 2005 217pp, 12 chapters
Participation, poverty, various examples worldwide
Development Projects and Critical Theory of Environment
J Bapat
Sage (India) 2005 244pp, 10 chapters
Environment and development, politics, examples from India: parks,
pollution, protest
Capital Flight and Capital Controls in Developing Countries
Ed G Epstein
Elgar, 2005 343pp, 13 chapters
Quantitative economics, various examples (eg Turkey, China, Brazil,
North Africa), policy implications
The African Food Crisis: Lessons from the Asian Green Revolution
Ed G Djurfeldt et al
CABI, 2005 266pp, 14 chapters
Detailed case studies, qualitative with diagrams and tables
Constructing Civil Society in Japan: Voices of environmental movements
K Hasegawa
Trans-Pacific Press, 2004 312pp, 13 chapters
Sociology, politics
Globalization, culture and inequality in Asia
ed. T Scrase, T Joseph, M Holden, S Baum
Trans-Pacific Press, 2003 370pp, 13 chapters
Sociology, politics, identity, various case studies from across Asia
Accountability of the International Monetary Fund
Eds B Carin and A Wood
Ashgate, 2005 8 chapters, pp124
politics, accountability, governance
Starter Packs: A strategy to fight hunger in developing countries?
Lessons from the Malawi Experience (CD Included)
Ed Sarah Levy
CABI, 2005 19 chapters, pp 295
focused on Malawi, poverty, development management, diverse chapters
Micro-credit: poverty and empowerment. Linking the triad.
Eds. N Burra et al.
Sage, 2005 8 chapters, pp 369
South Asia focus, social inclusion, women, children, community banking
Negotiating Power and privilege: Igbo career women in contemporary
Nigeria
P. Okere-Ihejirika
Ohio, 2004 9 chapters, pp 230
Gender, livelihood trajectories, households, Nigeria
Reaching the Poor with health, nutrition, and population services: what
works, what doesn't and why
Eds D Gwatkin, A Wagstaff, and A Yazbeck
World Bank, 2005 14 chps, pp353
health care, various examples from SSA, Asia, Lat America, statistics
but no mathematics
The experience of return migration: Caribbean perspectives
Eds R Potter, D Conway, and J Phillips
Ashgate, 2005 14 chps, pp293
migration, identity, Caribbean
Public problems: private solutions? Globalizing cities in the South
Eds K Segbers, S Raiser, K Volkmann
Ashgate, 2005 7 subsections, pp434
new forms of governance, not just about public-private-partnerships,
various case studies
Ageing societies
S Harper
Hodder, 2006 11 chps, 358pp
textbook, demography, policy issues, worldwide focus, caring for the
elderly and implications
Vanishing growth in Latin America: the late twentieth century experience
Ed A Solimano
Elgar, 2006 7 chps, pp. 245
economic development, some mathematical work
Not Breaking the Rules, Not Playing the Game, International Assistance
to Countries at War
Z Marriage
Hurst & Co,; Palgrave & Macmillan, 2006
Complex emergencies, conflict, politics
Overcoming intolerance in South Africa: experiments in democratic
persuasion
J Gibson and A Gouws
Cambridge Uni Press, 2005 (paperback edition, hardback out in 2003)
9 chapters, 263pp
ethics, tolerance, law, etc
Global divergence in trade, money and policy
Eds V Alexander and H Kotz
Elgar, 2006
Globalization, economic development, information technology
Food is different: Why we must get the WTO out of agriculture
P Rosset
Zed, 2006 pp163
Polemical, about trade and food policy, peasant and farmer action
Trial Justice
The International Criminal Court and the Lord's Resistance Army
Tim Allen
Zed, 2006
Aids and Power
Why there is no political crisis - yet
Alex de Waal
Zed, 2006
Darfur
A Short History of a Long War
Julie Flint and Alex de Waal
Zed, 2006
The Politics of Land Reform in Africa
From Communal Tenure to Free Markets
Ambreena Manji
Zed, 2006
Everyday Corruption and the State
Citizens and Public Officials in Africa
Giorgio Blundo and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan with N. B. Arifari, M.
T. Alou and M. Mathieu
Zed, 2006
Rights, resources and the politics of accountability
Eds P Newell and J Wheeler
Zed, 2006 12 chapters
Various case studies from world
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