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Volume 13, number 4

Editorial Deborah Eade

 

Articles

Another invasion: lessons from the international support to East Timorese NGOs
Cecilia Brunnstrom

Microfinance and social capital: does social capital help create good practice?
Sanae Ito

Women’s involvement in small-scale aquaculture in Northeast Thailand
Kyoko Kusakabe

Female volunteers: An asset to the reproductive health sector in rural Cambodia
Yuuki Suehiro and Penny Altman

Participation via collective action in basic education in government and NGO schools in Pakistan
Shahrukh Rafi Khan

Viewpoint

The role of the external practitioner
Javier Schunk

Community development in Malawi: experiences at the grassroots
Paul Kishindo

Economic development – a first-hand report of the Chinese experience
Dennis Li and Zhou Ben-hui

Practical Notes

The indigenous evaluation of wetlands research in Ethiopia
Alan Dixon

Research Round-Up

Maori community-based sustainable development: a research progress report
Terrence Loomis and John Mahima +

Social capital: red herring or right on? the Jamaican perspective
Eleanor Wint

Feedback

Small loans, big claims [no abstract available]
Farhad Hossain

A bridge between peoples? A brief summary of report on translation strategy commissioned by Development in Practice
Mike Powell

Book Reviews

Brysk, Alison (ed.)
Globalization and Human Rights
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002, ISBN: 0 520 23238 0, 311 pp.
reviewed by
Hans Peter Schmitz, Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, Syracuse University, USA

Dichter, Thomas
Despite Good Intentions: Why Development Assistance to the Third World has Failed
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003, ISBN: 1 55849 393 X, 320 pp.
reviewed by
David Ellerman, Former Economic Adviser to the Chief Economist, World Bank, USA

Helton, Arthur C.
The Price of Indifference: Refugees and Humanitarian Action in the New Century
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN: 0 19 925030 8, 314 pp.
reviewed by
Michael Barutciski, Lecturer, School of Law, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Iriye, Akira
Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002, ISBN: 0 52023 127 9, 246 pp.
reviewed by
Arturo C. Sotomayor, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, Columbia University, New York, and Assistant Professor on leave at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico City

Munck, Ronaldo
Globalisation and labour: The new ‘Great Transformation’
London: Zed Books, 2002, ISBN: 1 8427 7071 3, 216 pp.
reviewed by
Linda Shaw, Learning Development Manager, The Co-operative College, UK

Raffert, Kunibert and H. W. Singer
The Economic North-South Divide: Six Decades of Unequal Development
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2001, ISBN 1 84064 152 5, pp 293.
reviewed by
Adrian Leftwich, Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of York, UK

Tarp, Finn (ed.) with Peter Hjertholm
Foreign Aid and Development – Lessons Learnt and Directions for the Future
London: Routledge, 2000, ISBN: 0 415 233363 1, 498 pp.
reviewed by
David Sogge, Fellow, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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