Globalisation

Localisation: A Global Manifesto

Author: 
Hines, Colin
Publisher: 
London: earthscan, 2000, ISBN: 1 85383 612 5, 290 pp.
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Reviewed by Alan Waites, World Vision International

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Visible Hands: Taking Responsibility for Social Development

Author: 
UNRISD
Publisher: 
Geneva: UNRISD 2000, ISBN: 9 29085 032 9, 173 pp.
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Reviewed by Deborah Eade, Editor-in-chief, Development in Practice

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Contesting Global Governance: Multilateral Economic Institutions and Global Social Movements

Author: 
O’Brien, Robert; Goetz,Anne Marie; Scholte, Jan Aart; Williams, Marc
Publisher: 
Cambridge: CUP, 2000, ISBN: 0 52177 440 3, 260 pp.
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Reviewed by Kelly Currah, World Vision International

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The Native Tourist: Mass Tourism Within Developing Countries

Author: 
Ghimire, Krishna B. (ed.)
Publisher: 
London: Earthscan, 2001, ISBN: 1 85383 804 7, 234 pp.
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Reviewed by Regina Scheyvens, Senior Lecturer, Geography Programme, Massey University

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Frontiers of Development Economics: The Future in Perspective

Author: 
Meier, Gerald M. and Joseph E Stiglitz (eds.)
Publisher: 
New York, NY: World Bank/OUP, 2001, ISBN: 0 19 521592 3, 575 pp.
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Reviewed by Paul Cammack, Dept of Govt, University of Manchester

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The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka

Author: 
Kabeer, Naila
Publisher: 
London: Verso, 2002, ISBN: 1 85984 206 2, 320 pp.
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Reviewed by Petra Dannecker, Lecturer, Sociology of Development Research Centre, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld

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The Spaces of Neoliberalism: Land, Place and Family in Latin America

Author: 
Chase, Jacquelyn (ed.)
Publisher: 
Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2002 ISBN 1 56549 144 0, 244pp
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Reviewed by Rosalind Eyben

Fellow in Poverty and Social Policy, IDS, University of Sussex, Brighton

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Globalisation and labour: The new ‘Great Transformation’

Author: 
Munck, Ronaldo
Publisher: 
London: Zed Books, 2002, ISBN: 1 8427 7071 3, 216 pp.
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reviewed by

Linda Shaw, Learning Development Manager, The Co-operative College, UK

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Globalization and Human Rights

Author: 
Brysk, Alison (ed.)
Publisher: 
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002, ISBN: 0 520 23238 0, 311 pp.
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reviewed by

Hans Peter Schmitz, Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, Syracuse University, USA

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