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Volume 13, number 5

Editorial Deborah Eade

 

Articles

Social policy from the bottom up: abandoning FGC in sub-Saharan Africa
Peter Easton, Karen Monkman, and Rebecca Miles

Measuring the invisibles: gender mainstreaming and monitoring experience from a dairy development project in Tanzania
Vera F. Mkenda-Mugittu

From clients to citizens: asset-based community development as a strategy for community-driven development
Alison Mathie and Gord Cunningham

Keeping ‘the last’ in mind: incorporating Chambers in consulting
David Hirschmann

Programme and Project Cycle Management (PPCM): lessons from South and North
Philip N. Dearden and Bob Kowalski

Viewpoint

Primary Health Care: can the dream be revived?
Fran Baum

Advocacy research and the World Bank: propositions for discussion
Jonathan Fox

The multi-image development NGO: an agent of the new imperialism?
Fletcher Tembo

The risk approach to strategic management in development NGOs
Ricardo Wilson-Grau

Practical Notes

The role of horizontal networks in microfinance impact monitoring and assessment
James Copestake

Human security and reconstruction efforts in Rwanda: impact on the lives of women
Myriam Gervais

Improving agri-food marketing in developing economies: contractual vegetable markets in Ghana
Nigel Poole, A. Wayo Seini, and Victor Heh

Research Round-Up

Rights-based approaches – issues for NGOs
Emma Harris-Curtis

Trends in UK NGOs: a research note
Tina Wallace

Feedback

Microfinance, empowerment, and Sudra women in India
Khandakar Qudrat-I Elahi
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Book Reviews

Knight, Barry, Hope Chigudu, and Rajesh Tandon
Reviving Democracy: Citizens at the Heart of Governance
London and Sterling VA: Earthscan Publications, 2002, ISBN: 1 85383 881 0, 214 pp.
reviewed by
Carole Pateman
Political Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles CA

Malhotra, Kamal (ed.)
Making Global Trade Work for People
London: Earthscan Publications Ltd in conjunction with UNDP, 2003, ISBN: 1 85383 982 5, 341 pp.
reviewed by
Peter Williams
Livelihoods Adviser, Programme Policy Team, Oxfam GB, Oxford

Salih, M.A. Mohamed (ed.)
African Political Parties: Evolution, Institutionalisation and Governance
London: Pluto Press, 2003, ISBN: 0 7453 2037 6, 372 pp.
reviewed by
Jennifer Widner
Department of Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI

Corrales, Javier
Presidents Without Parties: the Politics of Economic Reform in Argentina and Venezuela in the 1990’s
University Park PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002, ISBN: 0 271 02194 2, 364 pp
reviewed by
Francisco E. Gonzalez
British Academy Research Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Oxford

Weyland, Kurt
The Politics of Market Reform in Fragile Democracies: Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002, ISBN: 0 691 09643 0, 336 pp.
reviewed by
Francisco E. Gonzalez
British Academy Research Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Oxford

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Foreign Direct Investment for Development: Maximising Benefits, Minimising Costs
Paris: OECD, 2002, ISBN: 9 26419 927 6, 232 pp.
reviewed by
Andrew Mold
Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales, Madrid

Gutierrez, Martha (ed.)
Macro-Economics: Making Gender Matter
Concepts, Policies and Institutional Change in Developing Countries
London and New York NY: GTZ and Zed Books, 2003, ISBN: 184277 061 6, 304 pp.
reviewed by
Diane Elson
Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park

Murthy, Ranjani K and Lakshmi Sankaran
Denial and Distress: Gender, Poverty and Human Rights in Asia
London: Zed Books, 2003, ISBN: 81 87380 60 8, 160 pp.
reviewed by
Arcelia Martínez Bordon
Politics Department, University of York, York

Fisher, William F and Thomas Ponniah (eds.)
Another World is Possible: Popular Alternatives to Globalization at the World Social Forum
London: Zed Books, 2003, ISBN: 1 84277329 1, 364 pp.
reviewed by
Alexander I Gray
Marie Curie Researcher, Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao

Kamat, Sangeeta
Development Hegemony: NGOs and the State in India
New Delhi: OUP, 2002, ISBN 019 565692 X, 187 pp.
reviewed by
Sujay Ghosh
Political Science Department, Uluberia College, Prembazar

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