Dear Tim
These are my top two choices:
An East Asian model for Latin American Success Anil Hira
Ashgate, 2007 pp186
developmental state, industrial policy, political economy, non-econometrics
Growth divergences: Explaining differences in economic performance
Eds: J A Ocampo, Jomo KS, and R Vos
Zed and the UN, 2008
cross-country comparison of growth and apparent determinants; some
statistics / econometrics
Best regards
Clive George
Institute for Development Policy and Management
School of Environment and Development
University of Manchester
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Manchester M13 9PL UK
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Subject: Development Books for Review
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The following books are available for review in PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT
STUDIES.
Please email me your top two choices, with your affiliation, a land address,
and a fax number. You then send me a review of 1,000 words by Jan 30 2009
(or earlier).
The list of books is also here... please consult this website if you get
this message after a few days.
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Please note, some books will be more popular than others. You will keep the
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Can NGOs make a difference: The challenge of development alternatives
Eds: A Bebbington, S Hickey, D Mitlin
Zed, 2008 pp358, 17 chapters
various case studies, worldwide
Institutions and Development: Advances in New Institutional Analysis M.
Shirley
Elgar, 2008 pp226, 8 chapters
institutional economics: Coase etc, discussions of aid, urban water reform,
Millennium Project (no econometrics)
NGOs as advocates for development in a globalising world Ed B Rugendyke
Routledge, 2007 pp260, 10 chapters
political economy, resource mobilisation theory, lots of case studies
including HIPC and Oxfam, Mekong region, making poverty history,
corporations
Africa at a turning point? Growth, aid and external shocks Eds D Go and J
Page
World Bank, 2008 pp570, 12 chps
macroeconomic, not much econometrics, analysis of policy approaches etc
Land and sustainable development in Africa Eds K A Amanor and S Moyo
Zed, 2008 pp226, 6 chapters plus intro
and conclusion
land reform, agriculture, ecotourism, conflicts; examples from mainly SSA
Revolutions in Development Inquiry
Robert Chambers
Earthscan, 2008 pp232, 9 chpts
critique of development methodologies from surveys and PRA/ RRA, updated
approach to participatory research
The New Development Management
Eds S Dar and B Cooke
Zed, 2008 pp238, 10 chapters
political economy, governance, rise of the new global managers, many good
and far reaching essays
The Road not travelled: Education reform in the Middle East and North Africa
World Bank, 2008 pp359
evaluation of education reforms
Africa's future, Africa's challenge: Early childhood care and development in
sub-Saharan Africa
Eds: M Garcia, A Pence, and J Evans
World Bank, 2008 pp525, 24 chapters
various aspects of early childhood care, health, education, etc,
international comparisons
Reinventing Foreign Aid
ed W Easterly
MIT Press, 2008 pp567, 20 chpts
political and occasionally econometric analysis of aid policy and perfomance
Africa and the new globalization
Ed G K Kieh
Ashgate, 2008 pp192, 9 chpts
analysis of NGOs, state, sovereignty, no econometrics
The gender politics of development
S Rai
Zed, 2008 pp216
good textbook, post-colonial state, discursive politics, nation building,
India as main case study
Planning, monitoring and evaluation in development organizations: sharing
training and facilitation experiences John de Coninck et al
Sage, 2008 9 chpts, pp201
Manual for development workers, nicely illustrated, focus on India
ICTs and Indian Social Change: diffusion, poverty, governance eds; A Saith,
M Vijayabaskar, V Gayathri
Sage, 2008 16 chpts, pp418
social science perspectives on the social identities, roles, connectivity
created by ICTs (no econometrics)
An East Asian model for Latin American Success Anil Hira
Ashgate, 2007 pp186
developmental state, industrial policy, political economy, non-econometrics
Towards Full and Decent Employment
Eds: J A Ocampo and Jomo KS
Zed and the UN, 2008
Assessment of decent work initiative, labour flexibility, employment; charts
but no econometrics
Social Justice and Development
B Morvaridi
Ashgate, 2008 pp214
political economy, discussion of globalization, rights, development, no
statistics / econometrics
Growth divergences: Explaining differences in economic performance
Eds: J A Ocampo, Jomo KS, and R Vos
Zed and the UN, 2008
cross-country comparison of growth and apparent determinants; some
statistics / econometrics
Good governance and development
BC Smith
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 pp320
overview of objectives, history, and criticisms of 'good' governance,
corruption, participation et
Corruption and development: The anti-corruption campaigns Ed S Bracking
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 pp310, 16 chapters
overview chapters about corruption, lots of case studies including Malawi,
Georgia, Mozambique etc
Understanding Financial crises
F Allen and D Gale
Oxford Uni Press, 2007 pp303
econometrics, finance, trade shocks, speculative bubbles, lending booms etc
Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the politics of labor in China M E
Gallagher
Princeton Uni Press, 2005 pp240
political economy, labor markets, regulation, non-econometric approach
Violence in the city of women: Police and batteries in Bahia, Brazil S
Hautzinger
Univ California Press, 2007 pp343
violence, gender, police, institutions, reform
Family farms: survival and prospect: a world-wide analysis H Brookfield and
H Parsons
Routledge, 2007 pp250
agrarian reform, agro-diversity, long term analysis of large societies
(Russia, Brazil, China, etc)
The impact of international debt relief
A Geshke Dijkstra
Routledge, 2007 pp138
overview of issues, straightforward, statistics and prose, no econometrics
Making poor nations rich: Entrepreneurs and the process of economic
development Ed B Powell
Stanford Uni Press, 2007 pp452, 14 chapters
overview chapters, case studies from various countries including in the
north
Women in China's long twentieth century
G Hershatter
University California Press, 2007 3 chapters, pp162
review of books from / about China, marriage, sexuality, identity, modernity
Remapping gender in the new global order
Eds: M Griffin Cohen and J Brodie
Routledge, 2007 12 chapters, pp249
globalization, neoliberalism, migration, activism, examples from various
places inc Mexico
Gender, generation and poverty: exploring the 'feminization of poverty' in
Africa, Asia and Latin America Sylvia Chant
Elgar, 2007 7 chapters, pp428
overview followed by analysis from Costa Rica, the Gambia and Philippines
Poverty: An international Glossary (2nd ed) Eds. P Spicker, SA Leguizamon, S
Gordon
Zed, 2007 pp247
poverty, various political and economic and historic references
Fiscal fragmentation in decentralized countries: Subsidiarity, solidarity
and asymmetry Eds. R Bird and R Ebel
Elgar, 2007 13 chapters, pp440
examples around the world, North and South, financial management, economic
development, not econometric
Eliminating human poverty: Macroeconomic and social policies for equitable
growth S Mehrotra and E Delamonica
Zed, 2007 11 chapters, pp432
macroeconomic and social policy, targeting of poor, non-econometric approach
Human rights in Asia: A comparative legal study of 12 Asian jurisdictions,
France and the USA Eds R Perenboom, C Petersen, A Chen
Routledge 2006 16 chapters, pp529
all East/ Southeast Asian countries except Burma, Laos, Cambodia. Good
summary and overview of issues and laws etc.
Schooling Passions: nation, history and language in contemporary Western
India V Benei
Stanford Uni Press, 2008 pp346
ethnography, education, India, identity, citizenship
Economic reform in developing countries: reach, range, reason
Eds: J Fanelli, L Squire
Elgar, 2008 pp376, 10 chapters
Some econometrics, various case studies from Asia and Africa, transitional
economies
Countering development: Indigenous modernity and the moral imagination David
Gow
Duke, 2008 pp300
based in Cauca - Colombia, ethnography, critique of indigeneity and
development, citizenship
The state of resistance: popular struggles in the global south Ed F Polet
Zed, 2007 pp208, 34 chapters
lots of case studies from around the world
AIDS and Governance
eds: N Poku, A Whiteside, and B Sandjkjaer
Ashgate, 2007 pp267, 13 chps
various political analyses of HIV generally, pharmaceuticals, civil society
etc
Sustainable Development in Water Stressed Developing Countries: A
Quantitative Policy Analysis Satoshi Kojima
Elgar, 2007 pp218, 7 chps
lots of econometrics, Morocco data, models of water-economy
The Cairo Consensus: demographic surveys, women's empowerment, and regime
change in population policy Saul Halfon
Lexington, 2007 pp260, 10 chapters
Social analysis of 'surveys' as an underpoliticized, unexamined form of data
generation; implications for policy and unrepresented groups
Peasant Pasts: History and Memory in Western India Vinayak Chaturvedi
UC Press, 2007 pp307, 64 chapters (yes)
social history, peasant practices and discourses, nationalism and nation
building
Going Local: Decentralization, Democratization, and the Promise of Good
Governance Merilee Grindle
Princeton, 2007 pp228, 8 chps
political analysis, governance, civil society, local government, some case
material from Mexico
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Dr. Tim Forsyth
Development Studies Institute
London School of Economics
London WC2A 2AE
England
Editorial board member of 'Progress in Development Studies'
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