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  <h3 class="h3_border">BOOKS</h3><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/A_Cautionary_Tale_Failed_U_S_Development_Policy_in_Central_America">A Cautionary Tale: Failed U.S. Development Policy in Central America   </a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Michael E. Conroy, Douglas L. Murray, and Peter M. Rosset</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Neither structural adjustment policies, nor industrialization, nor traditional agricultural exports have led to sustained economic growth and social equity in Central America. Seeking to reinvigorate the region's struggling economies, U.S. AID&mdash;supported by the World Bank and the IMF&mdash;designed a new development policy, one based on nontraditional agricultural exports. Crops ranging from &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/A_Cautionary_Tale_Failed_U_S_Development_Policy_in_Central_America">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Africa_s_Emerging_Maize_Revolution">Africa's Emerging Maize Revolution</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Derek Byerlee and Carl K. Eicher, editors</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Although relatively new to Africa, maize has recently replaced cassava as the continent's most important food crop, and increased maize production has the potential of helping to reverse Africa's food crisis. This book presents the results of extensive field research on the maize economy in six African countries, as well as broader-based studies of maize research and extension (R&amp;E), soil &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Africa_s_Emerging_Maize_Revolution">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Africa_s_Stalled_Development_International_Causes_and_Cures">Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">David K. Leonard and Scott Straus</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>This thoughtful discussion probes the international roots of Africa's civil conflicts and lackluster economies. Analyzing an unwitting system that creates a set of incentives inimical to development, the authors offer a new way of thinking about Africa's development dilemmas and the policy options for addressing them.
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Weak states, aid dependence, crushing debt, and enclave economies, &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Africa_s_Stalled_Development_International_Causes_and_Cures">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Africa_s_Stalled_Development_International_Causes_and_Cures"><img src="/uploads/t47d830a0aca76.jpg" alt="Africa&#039;s Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/African_Development_Making_Sense_of_the_Issues_and_Actors_2nd_edition">African Development: Making Sense of the Issues and Actors, 2nd edition</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Todd J. Moss</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>This fully updated edition of African Development reflects the recent development successes experienced in Africa, as well as the growing divergence between countries that are engaging with the global economy and those that remain more insular. The result is a comprehensive introduction to the development issues, actors, and institutions interacting across the diverse continent.

The book is &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/African_Development_Making_Sense_of_the_Issues_and_Actors_2nd_edition">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/African_Development_Making_Sense_of_the_Issues_and_Actors_2nd_edition"><img src="/uploads/t4d700721ca01b.jpg" alt="African Development: Making Sense of the Issues and Actors, 2nd edition" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Civil_Society_and_Development_A_Critical_Exploration">Civil Society and Development: A Critical Exploration</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Jude Howell and Jenny Pearce</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>&nbsp;
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Incorporated into the discourse of academics, policymakers, and grassroots activists, of multilateral development agencies and local NGOs alike, &quot;civil society&quot; has become a topic of widespread discussion. But is there in fact any common understanding of the term? How useful is it when applied to the South, and what difference does it make to &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Civil_Society_and_Development_A_Critical_Exploration">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Civil_Society_and_Development_A_Critical_Exploration"><img src="/uploads/t47c48874d8f0d.jpg" alt="Civil Society and Development: A Critical Exploration" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Comparative_Politics_of_the_Third_World_Linking_Concepts_and_Cases_3rd_edition">Comparative Politics of the “Third World”: Linking Concepts and Cases, 3rd edition</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">December Green and Laura Luehrmann</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Avoiding the problems of both overgeneralization and a strictly country-by-country approach, Comparative Politics of the &quot;Third World&quot; offers an innovative blend of theory and empirical material that introduces students in a meaningful way to the developing (or not developing) world. December Green and Laura Luehrmann consistently link concepts pertaining to history, politics, economics, &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Comparative_Politics_of_the_Third_World_Linking_Concepts_and_Cases_3rd_edition">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Comparative_Politics_of_the_Third_World_Linking_Concepts_and_Cases_3rd_edition"><img src="/uploads/t4d700c7da8d5c.jpg" alt="Comparative Politics of the “Third World”: Linking Concepts and Cases, 3rd edition" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Corruption_and_Development_Aid_Confronting_the_Challenges">Corruption and Development Aid: Confronting the Challenges</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Georg Cremer</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Although corruption has always been a quietly recognized aspect of development aid programs, the taboo against openly discussing it is only now being widely overcome. Georg Cremer systematically addresses the subject, exploring the nature and impact of corruption, the conditions under which it is most likely to take hold, and the strategies that can enable aid organizations, both NGOs and those in &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Corruption_and_Development_Aid_Confronting_the_Challenges">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Corruption_and_Development_Aid_Confronting_the_Challenges"><img src="/uploads/t47ed20f83c4f9.jpg" alt="Corruption and Development Aid: Confronting the Challenges" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Developing_Brazil_Overcoming_the_Failure_of_the_Washington_Consensus">Developing Brazil:  Overcoming the Failure of the Washington Consensus</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>After the 1994 Real Plan ended fourteen years of high inflation in Brazil, the country&rsquo;s economy was expected&mdash;mistakenly&mdash;to grow quickly. Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira discusses Brazil&rsquo;s economic trajectory from the mid-1990s to the present Lula administration, critically appraising the neoliberal reforms that have curtailed growth and proposing a national development &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Developing_Brazil_Overcoming_the_Failure_of_the_Washington_Consensus">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Developing_Brazil_Overcoming_the_Failure_of_the_Washington_Consensus"><img src="/uploads/t49088c8c2edea.jpg" alt="Developing Brazil:  Overcoming the Failure of the Washington Consensus" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Development_and_Underdevelopment_The_Political_Economy_of_Global_Inequality_4th_edition">Development and Underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Global Inequality, 4th edition</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Mitchell A. Seligson and John T Passé-Smith, editors</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>This new edition of Development and Underdevelopment retains the strongest contributions of the previous three editions, but includes 12 new chapters that reflect the many seminal contributions made to the field in recent years. There are also two new sections: one addressing the historical origins of the gap between rich and poor countries, and one focusing on how globalization has affected the &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Development_and_Underdevelopment_The_Political_Economy_of_Global_Inequality_4th_edition">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Development_and_Underdevelopment_The_Political_Economy_of_Global_Inequality_4th_edition"><img src="/uploads/t47e2dfd78c835.jpg" alt="Development and Underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Global Inequality, 4th edition" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Diasporas_and_Development_Exploring_the_Potential">Diasporas and Development: Exploring the Potential</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff, editor</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>For some time in diaspora studies, attention to remittances has overshadowed the growing impact of emigrant groups both within the social and political arenas in their homelands and with regard to fundamental economic development. The authors of Diasporas and Development redress this imbalance, focusing on three core issues: the responses of diasporas to homeland conflicts, strategies for &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Diasporas_and_Development_Exploring_the_Potential">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Diasporas_and_Development_Exploring_the_Potential"><img src="/uploads/t4819ffc586e8f.jpg" alt="Diasporas and Development: Exploring the Potential" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Farmers_Experiments_Creating_Local_Knowledge">Farmers' Experiments: Creating Local Knowledge</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">James Sumberg and Christine Okali</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Over the last two decades, growing interest in greater farmer participation in formal agricultural research has had major implications both for investment priorities and for models of organization, implementation, and management of agricultural R&amp;D.
Sumberg and Okali identify, characterize, and contextualize the experimental activities undertaken by farmers themselves, providing a theoretical &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Farmers_Experiments_Creating_Local_Knowledge">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Fieldwork_in_Developing_Countries">Fieldwork in Developing Countries</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Stephen Devereux and John Hoddinott, editors</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Practical, realistic, and based on firsthand experiences, this sorely needed resource addresses theoretical concerns at the same time that it reflects the important fact that the context within which fieldwork is conducted is absolutely integral to the research process.
 &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Fieldwork_in_Developing_Countries">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Fighting_Poverty_The_Development_Employment_Link">Fighting Poverty: The Development-Employment Link</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Rizwanul Islam, editor</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>While it has become abundantly clear that neither overall economic growth nor targeted microlevel interventions inevitably reduce poverty in developing countries, much of the development literature continues to focus on these two approaches. Exploring a third, and more promising, avenue, Fighting Poverty offers a systematic analysis of the link between employment and pro-poor economic &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Fighting_Poverty_The_Development_Employment_Link">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Fighting_Poverty_The_Development_Employment_Link"><img src="/uploads/t47e030bab67c7.jpg" alt="Fighting Poverty: The Development-Employment Link" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Fixing_African_Economies_Policy_Research_for_Development">Fixing African Economies: Policy Research for Development</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Lucie Colvin Phillips and Diery Seck, editors</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>When African countries embarked on the first round of structural adjustments in the 1980s and 1990s, there was little opportunity to first determine what programs would work where&mdash;instead, governments reluctantly implemented policies that were imposed by international financial institutions and based on theoretical models. The ensuing process was eventful&mdash;and the results &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Fixing_African_Economies_Policy_Research_for_Development">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Fixing_African_Economies_Policy_Research_for_Development"><img src="/uploads/t47d9447474f26.jpg" alt="Fixing African Economies: Policy Research for Development" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Forced_Labor_Coercion_and_Exploitation_in_the_Private_Economy">Forced Labor: Coercion and Exploitation in the Private Economy </a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Beate Andrees and Patrick Belser, editors</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, at least 12.3 million people are subjected to modern forms of forced labor&mdash;in rich countries, as well as poor ones.

The authors of Forced Labor present state-of-the art research on the manifestations of these slavery-like practices, why they continue to survive, and how they can be eliminated. Their conceptually rich &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Forced_Labor_Coercion_and_Exploitation_in_the_Private_Economy">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Forced_Labor_Coercion_and_Exploitation_in_the_Private_Economy"><img src="/uploads/t4a561d073d1cf.jpg" alt="Forced Labor: Coercion and Exploitation in the Private Economy " /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Foreign_Investment_and_Domestic_Development_Multinationals_and_the_State">Foreign Investment and Domestic Development: Multinationals and the State</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Jenny Rebecca Kehl</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>How is it that billions of dollars flow through the developing world without altering its reality of poverty and scarcity? Jenny Kehl explores the crucial relationship between foreign direct investment and domestic development, focusing on the wide variation in the capacity of governments to negotiate FDI to the advantage of their citizens.

	To isolate the influence of political factors, Kehl &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Foreign_Investment_and_Domestic_Development_Multinationals_and_the_State">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Foreign_Investment_and_Domestic_Development_Multinationals_and_the_State"><img src="/uploads/t48e27a29b3518.jpg" alt="Foreign Investment and Domestic Development: Multinationals and the State" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/G_24_The_Developing_Countries_in_the_International_Financial_System">G-24: The Developing Countries in the International Financial System</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">edited by Eduardo Mayobre, Central Bank of Venezuela</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Appearing some twenty-five years after the inaugural meeting of the Group of 24, this book relates the efforts made by developing countries in the arena of international monetary issues. A reflection on a quarter-century of both frustration and modest achievement, it deals as well with matters central to the future of global economic relations.
The authors, distinguished scholars from developing &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/G_24_The_Developing_Countries_in_the_International_Financial_System">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Gender_and_Development_Rethinking_Modernization_and_Dependency_Theory">Gender and Development: Rethinking Modernization and Dependency Theory</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Catherine V. Scott</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Scott demonstrates that many prevailing ideas about development, dependency, capitalism, and socialism are anchored in the social constructions of gender differences.
Early modernization theorists, points out Scott, often juxtaposed modernity and tradition in ways reminiscent of Enlightenment dichotomies that pitted the rational, productive city against the particularistic, fragmented, and &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Gender_and_Development_Rethinking_Modernization_and_Dependency_Theory">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/George_Woods_and_the_World_Bank">George Woods and the World Bank</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Robert W. Oliver</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Based on dozens of in-depth interviews, as well as the historical record, Robert Oliver has written a unique biography of George David Woods, who in 1963 became the fourth president of the World Bank.
George Woods transformed the World Bank from a relatively passive investment organization into an active leader of world development. He pushed for greatly increased lending in support of &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/George_Woods_and_the_World_Bank">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Globalization_and_the_Rural_Poor_in_Latin_America">Globalization and the Rural Poor in Latin America</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">William M. Loker, editor</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>With global sociopolitical and economic change contributing to an accelerating crisis in Latin America&rsquo;s rural communities, rural residents are responding creatively with a range of survival strategies: new forms of collective action, involvement in social movements, the development of resource-management programs, and participation in broader markets. The analyses and case studies in this &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Globalization_and_the_Rural_Poor_in_Latin_America">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Growth_and_Development_With_Special_Reference_to_Developing_Economies">Growth and Development: With Special Reference to Developing Economies</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">A.P. Thirlwall</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>This widely used textbook is designed to introduce students with a background in micro- and macroeconomics to the challenging subject of development economics, enabling them to understand the development difficulties of the world's poor countries.
The book opens with an analysis of the world development &quot;gap&quot; and then introduces such key topics as the measurement of the sources of &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Growth_and_Development_With_Special_Reference_to_Developing_Economies">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Maize_Seed_Industries_in_Developing_Countries">Maize Seed Industries in Developing Countries</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Michael L. Morris, editor</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Unless more effective ways can be found to deliver high-yielding seed to farmers in developing countries, the hoped-for &ldquo;green revolution&rdquo; in maize production will remain elusive. This comprehensive reference examines the spectrum of technical, economic, and institutional issues that will have to be resolved if maize seed industries are to succeed in reaching greater numbers of those &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Maize_Seed_Industries_in_Developing_Countries">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Mirages_of_Development_Science_and_Technology_for_the_Third_Worlds">Mirages of Development: Science and Technology for the Third Worlds</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Jean-Jacques Salomon and Andre Lebeau</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>This lively book looks at the issues of development in terms that attack both the earlier idealism and the current mood of cynicism about the Third World.
Salomon and Lebeau consider why the great majority of Third World countries have failed to solve the problems of underdevelopment by relying on science and technology, while a very few of them&mdash;the newly industrialized countries&mdash;have &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Mirages_of_Development_Science_and_Technology_for_the_Third_Worlds">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Modern_Rice_Technology_and_Income_Distribution_in_Asia">Modern Rice Technology and Income Distribution in Asia</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Cristina David and Keijiro Otsuka, editors</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Two decades have passed since the introduction of modern rice varieties (MVs) and their accompanying technology in Asia. This volume looks at seven Asian countries&mdash;with widely diverse production environments and agrarian and policy structures&mdash;to determine to what extent the adoption of MVs only in the irrigated and the favorable rainfed-lowland areas has exacerbated inequalities in the &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Modern_Rice_Technology_and_Income_Distribution_in_Asia">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/National_and_Regional_Self_Sufficiency_Goals_Implications_for_International_Agriculture">National and Regional Self-Sufficiency Goals: Implications for International Agriculture</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Fred J. Ruppel and Earl D. Kellogg, editors</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>The drive for agricultural and food self-sufficiency in countries throughout the world has become an important topic in international political discussions. This book uses a basic economic framework to set forth the issues and debates surrounding self-sufficiency and also describes the current situation in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the developed countries. A combination of thematic and &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/National_and_Regional_Self_Sufficiency_Goals_Implications_for_International_Agriculture">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Negotiating_the_Net_in_Africa_The_Politics_of_Internet_Diffusion">Negotiating the Net in Africa: The Politics of Internet Diffusion</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Ernest J. Wilson III and Kelvin R. Wong, editors</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Why do national patterns of Internet expansion differ so greatly throughout Africa? To what extent do politics trump technology? Who are the &quot;information champions&quot; in the various African states? Addressing these and related questions, Negotiating the Net in Africa explores the politics, economics, and technology of Internet diffusion across the continent.
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The &quot;Negotiating &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Negotiating_the_Net_in_Africa_The_Politics_of_Internet_Diffusion">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Negotiating_the_Net_in_Africa_The_Politics_of_Internet_Diffusion"><img src="/uploads/t47e1608ab7921.jpg" alt="Negotiating the Net in Africa: The Politics of Internet Diffusion" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Nubian_Women_of_West_Aswan_Negotiating_Tradition_and_Change_2nd_edition">Nubian Women of West Aswan: Negotiating Tradition and Change, 2nd edition</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Anne M. Jennings</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>In the decade-and-a-half since the first edition of this book was written, there have been dramatic changes both in the town of Aswan and among the devoutly Muslim Nubians of the of West Aswan. Anne Jennings&rsquo;s revised and updated ethnography reflects those changes and also incorporates new material from archaeological/historical research and new literature on the impact of tourism, the work &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Nubian_Women_of_West_Aswan_Negotiating_Tradition_and_Change_2nd_edition">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Nubian_Women_of_West_Aswan_Negotiating_Tradition_and_Change_2nd_edition"><img src="/uploads/t48a0661f325a8.jpg" alt="Nubian Women of West Aswan: Negotiating Tradition and Change, 2nd edition" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Overselling_the_Web_Development_and_the_Internet">Overselling the Web?: Development and the Internet</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Charles Kenny</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Opinion leaders in government and business routinely tout the Internet&#39;s power as a force for economic and social development, and programs designed to bridge the digital divide are springing up across the developing world. Many questions remain, however, about the effectiveness of such programs in fostering greater productivity and improving quality of life. Overselling the Web? offers a much &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Overselling_the_Web_Development_and_the_Internet">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Overselling_the_Web_Development_and_the_Internet"><img src="/uploads/t47e27e1db6d13.jpg" alt="Overselling the Web?: Development and the Internet" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Partnership_for_International_Development_Rhetoric_or_Results">Partnership for International Development: Rhetoric or Results?</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>In the search for institutional models that can deliver more and better development outcomes, partnership is arguably among the most popular solutions proposed. But the evidence of partnerships' contributions to actual performance has been for the most part anecdotal. Partnership for International Development bridges the gap between rhetoric and practice, clarifying what the concept &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Partnership_for_International_Development_Rhetoric_or_Results">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Partnership_for_International_Development_Rhetoric_or_Results"><img src="/uploads/t47d6ee0ff2a6f.jpg" alt="Partnership for International Development: Rhetoric or Results?" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Peace_and_the_Public_Purse_Economic_Policies_for_Postwar_Statebuilding">Peace and the Public Purse: Economic Policies for Postwar Statebuilding</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">James K. Boyce and Madalene O'Donnell, editors</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>In the aftermath of violent conflict, how do the economic challenges of statebuilding intersect with the political challenges of peacebuilding? How can the international community help lay the fiscal foundations for a sustainable state and a durable peace? Peace and the Public Purse examines these questions, lifting the curtain that often has separated economic policy from peace &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Peace_and_the_Public_Purse_Economic_Policies_for_Postwar_Statebuilding">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Peace_and_the_Public_Purse_Economic_Policies_for_Postwar_Statebuilding"><img src="/uploads/t47e295b7cc253.jpg" alt="Peace and the Public Purse: Economic Policies for Postwar Statebuilding" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Policy_Analysis_for_Effective_Development_Strengthening_Transition_Economies">Policy Analysis for Effective Development: Strengthening Transition Economies</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Kristin Morse and Raymond J. Struyk</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>This practical text provides analytic tools and real world examples to equip both students and professionals with the skills they need to develop&mdash;and implement&mdash;effective public policies.
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Focusing on transition economies, Morse and Struyk concentrate on the day to day tasks involved in tackling social and economic policy issues. They thoroughly cover the practicalities of &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Policy_Analysis_for_Effective_Development_Strengthening_Transition_Economies">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Policy_Analysis_for_Effective_Development_Strengthening_Transition_Economies"><img src="/uploads/t47dfe60739445.jpg" alt="Policy Analysis for Effective Development: Strengthening Transition Economies" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Postconflict_Development_Meeting_New_Challenges">Postconflict Development: Meeting New Challenges</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Gerd Junne and Willemijn Verkoren, editors</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>With the proliferation of civil wars since the end of the Cold War, many developing countries now exist in a &quot;postconflict&quot; environment, posing enormous development challenges for the societies affected, as well as for international actors. Postconflict Development addresses these challenges in a range of vital sectors&mdash;security, justice, economic policy, education, the media, &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Postconflict_Development_Meeting_New_Challenges">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Postconflict_Development_Meeting_New_Challenges"><img src="/uploads/t47ded0457141b.jpg" alt="Postconflict Development: Meeting New Challenges" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Prices_Products_and_People_Analyzing_Agricultural_Markets_in_Developing_Countries">Prices, Products, and People: Analyzing Agricultural Markets in Developing Countries</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Gregory J. Scott, editor</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Markets for agricultural commodities in developing countries are changing rapidly. Population growth, rural-urban migration, technological innovation, environmental concerns, and policy shifts&mdash;both domestic and international&mdash;are but a few of the more prominent factors introducing new pressures to which markets must respond. This book addresses the critical task of understanding these &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Prices_Products_and_People_Analyzing_Agricultural_Markets_in_Developing_Countries">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Project_Planning_and_Analysis_for_Development">Project Planning and Analysis for Development</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">David Potts</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>In this comprehensive, practical guide to project planning and appraisal in developing countries, David Potts focuses on economic and financial analysis, but also gives serious weight to such key factors as sustainability and social impact.
Part 1 of the book considers a range of approaches to project identification and design and introduces basic techniques for determining costs and benefits. &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Project_Planning_and_Analysis_for_Development">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Project_Planning_and_Analysis_for_Development"><img src="/uploads/t47d59eb19bc7a.jpg" alt="Project Planning and Analysis for Development" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Promoting_Reproductive_Health_Investing_in_Health_for_Development">Promoting Reproductive Health: Investing in Health for Development</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Shepard Forman and Romita Ghosh, editors</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>The aim of the research underpinning this volume was threefold: to determine how countries understand and are acting on the Programme of Action endorsed by the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo in 1994; how efforts to implement that program can be assessed; and what is needed to move forward. The resulting case studies help also to answer broader questions &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Promoting_Reproductive_Health_Investing_in_Health_for_Development">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Reinventing_Leviathan_The_Politics_of_Administrative_Reform_in_Developing_Countries">Reinventing Leviathan: The Politics of Administrative Reform in Developing Countries</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Ben Ross Schneider and Blanca Heredia, editors</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Scholars and development practitioners agree that developing countries urgently need cohesive administrative reforms to consolidate new market economies, promote sustainable development, and improve social welfare. Reinventing Leviathan provides extensive comparative research on the political processes that facilitate or block efforts designed to improve administrative performance.
Studies of &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Reinventing_Leviathan_The_Politics_of_Administrative_Reform_in_Developing_Countries">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Reinventing_Leviathan_The_Politics_of_Administrative_Reform_in_Developing_Countries"><img src="/uploads/t47d5a31c56e44.jpg" alt="Reinventing Leviathan: The Politics of Administrative Reform in Developing Countries" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Rising_from_the_Ashes_Development_Strategies_in_Times_of_Disaster">Rising from the Ashes: Development Strategies in Times of Disaster</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Mary B. Anderson and Peter J. Woodrow</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Drawing on case histories of emergency relief programs that have successfully promoted development, Anderson and Woodrow offer guidelines for fashioning assistance programs designed to counter the effects of both natural and human-caused disasters. Arguing that relief efforts must support and enhance existing capacities, they present an analytical framework for assessing the characteristics and &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Rising_from_the_Ashes_Development_Strategies_in_Times_of_Disaster">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Security_and_Development_in_the_Pacific_Islands_Social_Resilience_in_Emerging_States">Security and Development in the Pacific Islands: Social Resilience in Emerging States</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">M. Anne Brown, editor</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Reflecting a growing awareness of the need to integrate security and development agendas in the field of conflict management, the authors of this original volume focus on the case of the Pacific Islands. In the process, they also reveal the sociopolitical diversity, cultural richness, and social resilience of a little-known region. Their work not only offers insight into the societies discussed, &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Security_and_Development_in_the_Pacific_Islands_Social_Resilience_in_Emerging_States">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Security_and_Development_in_the_Pacific_Islands_Social_Resilience_in_Emerging_States"><img src="/uploads/t47e292145aa0b.jpg" alt="Security and Development in the Pacific Islands: Social Resilience in Emerging States" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Security_and_Development_Searching_for_Critical_Connections">Security and Development: Searching for Critical Connections</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Neclâ Tschirgi, Michael S. Lund, and Francesco Mancini, editors</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Although policymakers and practitioners alike have enthusiastically embraced the idea that security and development are interdependent, the precise nature and implications of the dynamic interplay between the two phenomena have been far from clear. The authors of Security and Development: Searching for Critical Connections realistically assess the promise and shortcomings of integrated &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Security_and_Development_Searching_for_Critical_Connections">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Security_and_Development_Searching_for_Critical_Connections"><img src="/uploads/t4adf362e9435f.jpg" alt="Security and Development: Searching for Critical Connections" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Seeking_Security_and_Development_The_Impact_of_Military_Spending_and_Arms_Transfers">Seeking Security and Development: The Impact of Military Spending and ArmsTransfers</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Norman A. Graham, editor</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Do military expenditures retard economic growth and development, enhance the development process, or neither? How effective are military and military-dominated regimes in promoting economic development? What is the impact of military expenditures and arms acquisitions on conflict patterns?
Exploring the causal links between military expenditures and economic development in the Third World, the &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Seeking_Security_and_Development_The_Impact_of_Military_Spending_and_Arms_Transfers">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Smart_Aid_for_African_Development">Smart Aid for African Development</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Richard Joseph and Alexandra Gillies, editors</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Despite hundreds of billions of dollars spent on foreign aid to sub-Saharan Africa, a sure path to growth and development has not yet been found&mdash;and each new heralded approach has crumbled amid regrets and recriminations.

The authors of Smart Aid for African Development provide critical assessments of the main components of foreign assistance, considering how smarter use can be made of &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Smart_Aid_for_African_Development">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Smart_Aid_for_African_Development"><img src="/uploads/t4884aa2bc8830.jpg" alt="Smart Aid for African Development" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/State_and_Market_in_Develoment_Synergy_or_Rivalry">State and Market in Develoment: Synergy or Rivalry?</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Louis Putterman and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, editors</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>In the wake of the triumph of neoclassicism in the development economics of the 1980s and the collapse of state socialist economies at the end of that decade, reassessment of the role of the state in development is the order of the day. The authors of this volume resist without exception the temptation to put the question as a simple choice of state or market. Rather, they inquire into the &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/State_and_Market_in_Develoment_Synergy_or_Rivalry">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/The_European_Union_and_the_Global_South">The European Union and the Global South</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Fredrik Söderbaum and Patrik Stålgren, editors</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Choice Outstanding Academic Book!

The development of coherent and effective relations with other regions and countries is one of the most challenging tasks faced by the European Union. This original volume explores the EU&rsquo;s engagement with the global South, focusing on three controversial policy areas: economic cooperation, development cooperation, and conflict &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/The_European_Union_and_the_Global_South">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/The_European_Union_and_the_Global_South"><img src="/uploads/t4aaeb3085a498.jpg" alt="The European Union and the Global South" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/The_Multilateral_Development_Banks_Volume_2_The_Asian_Development_Bank">The Multilateral Development Banks:  Volume 2, The Asian Development Bank</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Nihal Kappagoda</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>The multilateral banks are powerful forces in the international community, providing loans of more than $250 billion to developing countries over the last half-century. The best-known of these, the World Bank, has been studied extensively, but the &quot;regional development banks&quot; are little understood, even within their own geographic regions.
This book looks specifically at the policies &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/The_Multilateral_Development_Banks_Volume_2_The_Asian_Development_Bank">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/The_Multilateral_Development_Banks_Volume_1_The_African_Development_Bank">The Multilateral Development Banks: Volume 1, The African Development Bank</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">E. Philip English and Harris M. Mule</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>The multilateral banks are powerful forces in the international community, providing loans of more than $250 billion to developing countries over the last half-century. The best-known of these, the World Bank, has been studied extensively, but the &quot;regional development banks&quot; are little understood, even within their own geographic regions.
This book looks specifically at the policies &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/The_Multilateral_Development_Banks_Volume_1_The_African_Development_Bank">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/The_Multilateral_Development_Banks_Volume_3_The_Caribbean_Development_Bank">The Multilateral Development Banks: Volume 3, The Caribbean Development Bank</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Chandra Hardy</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>The multilateral banks are powerful forces in the international community, providing loans of more than $250 billion to developing countries over the last half-century. The best-known of these, the World Bank, has been studied extensively, but the &quot;regional development banks&quot; are little understood, even within their own geographic regions. 
This book looks specifically at the policies &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/The_Multilateral_Development_Banks_Volume_3_The_Caribbean_Development_Bank">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/The_Multilateral_Development_Banks_Volume_5_Titans_or_Behemoths">The Multilateral Development Banks: Volume 5, Titans or Behemoths?</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Roy Culpeper</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>The multilateral banks are powerful forces in the international community, providing loans of more than $250 billion to developing countries over the last half-century. The best-known of these, the World Bank, has been studied extensively, but the &quot;regional development banks&quot; are little understood, even within their own geographic regions.
This book synthesizes the insights of four &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/The_Multilateral_Development_Banks_Volume_5_Titans_or_Behemoths">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/The_World_Food_Problem_Toward_Ending_Undernutrition_in_the_Third_World">The World Food Problem: Toward Ending Undernutrition in the Third World, 4th Edition</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Howard D. Leathers and Phillips Foster</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Why do millions of people in the less-developed countries go hungry, while there is an abundance of food in the world? What can be done about it?

These are the issues explored in this accessible and comprehensive text. In addition to incorporating updated data throughout, this new edition includes:
&bull; a comprehensive description and analysis of the 2008 food crisis
&bull; an expanded &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/The_World_Food_Problem_Toward_Ending_Undernutrition_in_the_Third_World">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/The_World_Food_Problem_Toward_Ending_Undernutrition_in_the_Third_World"><img src="/uploads/t49bfce480c560.jpg" alt="The World Food Problem: Toward Ending Undernutrition in the Third World, 4th Edition" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Tourists_Migrants_and_Refugees_Population_Movements_in_Third_World_Development">Tourists, Migrants, and Refugees: Population Movements in Third World Development</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Milica Z. Bookman</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>As travelers increasingly seek out the exotic wildlife and idyllic sunsets of the developing world, a complex relationship involving tourism, the migration of workers, and the involuntary displacement of peoples has emerged. Milica Bookman explores that relationship&mdash;and the connection between population movements and economic development in third world countries.
Bookman&#39;s multicountry &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Tourists_Migrants_and_Refugees_Population_Movements_in_Third_World_Development">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Tourists_Migrants_and_Refugees_Population_Movements_in_Third_World_Development"><img src="/uploads/t47d0767248a61.jpg" alt="Tourists, Migrants, and Refugees: Population Movements in Third World Development" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Understanding_Development_Theory_and_Practice_in_the_Third_World_3rd_Edition">Understanding Development: Theory and Practice in the Third World, 3rd Edition</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">John Rapley</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>This accessible text provides both an assessment of the current state of development theory and an extensive survey of the impact of evolving policies and practices throughout the developing world.
Rapley critically traces the evolution of development theory from its strong statist orientation in the early postwar period, through the neoclassical phase, to the present emerging consensus on &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Understanding_Development_Theory_and_Practice_in_the_Third_World_3rd_Edition">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Understanding_Development_Theory_and_Practice_in_the_Third_World_3rd_Edition"><img src="/uploads/t47e2d55a940a2.jpg" alt="Understanding Development: Theory and Practice in the Third World, 3rd Edition" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Waiting_for_Rain_Agriculture_and_Ecological_Imbalance_in_Cape_Verde">Waiting for Rain: Agriculture and Ecological Imbalance in Cape Verde</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Mark Langworthy and Timothy J. Finan</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>This ethnographic study of Cape Verde tackles critical development issues: the struggle for self&ndash;sufficient food security, the tension between agricultural production and natural resource sustainability, and the appropriate role of government policy in food production and natural resource management.
Cape Verde has moved into an ecological imbalance between the sustainable production &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Waiting_for_Rain_Agriculture_and_Ecological_Imbalance_in_Cape_Verde">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Women_and_Civil_War_Impact_Organization_and_Action">Women and Civil War: Impact, Organization, and Action</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Krishna Kumar, editor</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Women typically do not remain passive spectators during a war, nor are they always its innocent victims; instead, they frequently take on new roles and responsibilities, participating in military and political struggles and building new networks in order to obtain needed resources for their families. Consequently, while civil war imposes tremendous burdens on women, it often contributes to the &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Women_and_Civil_War_Impact_Organization_and_Action">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Women_and_Civil_War_Impact_Organization_and_Action"><img src="/uploads/t47d59372edb4c.jpg" alt="Women and Civil War: Impact, Organization, and Action" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Women_and_Education_in_Sub_Saharan_Africa_Power_Opportunities_and_Constraints">Women and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Power, Opportunities, and Constraints</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Marianne Bloch, Josephine A. Beoku-Betts, and B. Robert Tabachnick, editors</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>This volume focuses on gender and education in sub-Saharan Africa, considering in particular the impact formal and nonformal education have had on African women.

A variety of country studies illustrate current theoretical debates in three key areas: postcolonial influences on the forms of education that are privileged; human-capital, socialist-feminist, and post-modern perspectives on the &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Women_and_Education_in_Sub_Saharan_Africa_Power_Opportunities_and_Constraints">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Women_Farmers_and_Commercial_Ventures_Increasing_Food_Security_in_Developing_Countries">Women Farmers and Commercial Ventures: Increasing Food Security in Developing Countries</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Anita Spring, editor</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Women around the world are entering commercial agriculture&mdash;and often succeeding&mdash;despite development policies designed to exclude them. In this comparative volume, case studies reveal that farm women in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are rapidly becoming more than &ldquo;subsistence producers.  

The authors explore the societal and domestic changes brought about as women move from &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Women_Farmers_and_Commercial_Ventures_Increasing_Food_Security_in_Developing_Countries">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Women_in_Developing_Countries_Assessing_Strategies_for_Empowerment">Women in Developing Countries: Assessing Strategies for Empowerment</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Rekha Datta and Judith Kornberg, editors</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>For decades, researchers and policymakers have examined the impact of development programs on women&mdash;and evidence of sustained gender discrimination has inspired local, national, and international policy reforms. But has the empowerment movement increased women's control of resources? Has it had the desired effect on gender relations traditionally defined by patriarchal ideology and &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Women_in_Developing_Countries_Assessing_Strategies_for_Empowerment">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"><a href="/title/Women_in_Developing_Countries_Assessing_Strategies_for_Empowerment"><img src="/uploads/t47d59fd997afc.jpg" alt="Women in Developing Countries: Assessing Strategies for Empowerment" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="table"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0 0.8em 14px; vertical-align:top;"><h4 class="purple"><a href="/title/Women_Work_and_Economic_Reform_in_the_Middle_East_and_North_Africa">Women, Work, and Economic Reform in the Middle East and North Africa</a></h4><div style="margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: 1.05em;">Valentine M. Moghadam</div><div style="font-size:0.9em"><p>Globalization and changing political economies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are affecting women&#39;s labor-force participation, educational attainment,&nbsp; and access to economic resources. But are these changes in fact resulting in economic gains for women? And will this produce an intensification or a subversion of the patriarchal gender contract that has thus far characterized &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/title/Women_Work_and_Economic_Reform_in_the_Middle_East_and_North_Africa">More&nbsp;&gt;</a></p></div></td><td style="padding-bottom: 14px;"></td></tr></tbody></table>  </div>
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