Governance and public policy

Rule of Law in Latin America: The International Promotion of Judicial Reform

Author: 
Domingo, Pilar and Rachel Sieder
Publisher: 
London: Institute of Latin American Studies, 2001, ISBN: 1 90003 939 7, 176 pp.
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Reviewed by Francisco Panizza, Dept of Govt, London School of Economics, UK

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Faith in Development: Partnership between the World Bank and the Churches of Africa

Author: 
Belshaw, Deryke, Robert Calderisi and Chris Sugden (eds.)
Publisher: 
Oxford: Regnum Books International, 2001, ISBN: 18700345 21 5, 246 pp.
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Reviewed by Steve de Gruchy, Graduate Programme in Theology & Development, University of Natal, SA

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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 European Union and the Third World

Author: 
Holland, Martin
Publisher: 
New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, ISBN: 0 333 65905 8, 274 pp.
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reviewed by Carol Cosgrove-Sacks, Director, Trade Division, United Nations Commission for Europe, Geneva

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Africa in Crisis: New Challenges and Possibilities

Author: 
Zack-Williams,Tunde, Diane Frost and Alex Thomson
Publisher: 
London and Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2002, ISBN: 0 7453 1647 6, 228 pp.
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reviewed by Tony Killick, Senior Research Associate, International Economic Development Group, Overseas Development Institute, UK

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African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1970-99

Author: 
van de Walle, Nicolas
Publisher: 
Cambridge: CUP, 2001 ISBN: 0 521 00836 0, 291 pp.
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Reviewed by Tony KIllick, Senior Research Associate, International Economic Development Group, Overseas Development Institute, UK

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Legalize This! The case for decriminalizing drugs

Author: 
Husak, Douglas
Publisher: 
London: Verso, 2002, ISBN: 1 8598 4320 4, 190 pp.
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Reviewed by Steven Duke, Professor of Law, Yale University, New Haven, CT

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Public–Private Partnerships for Public Health

Author: 
Reich, Michael R. (ed.)
Publisher: 
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Centre for Population and Development Studies, 2002, ISBN: 0 674 00865 0, 205 pp.
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reviewed by Valery Ridde, PhD Candidate in Public Health, Laval University, Quebec

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Shifting Burdens: Gender and Agrarian Reform under Neo-liberalism

Author: 
Razavi, Shahra (ed.)
Publisher: 
Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2002, ISBN: 1 56549 143 2, 265 pp.
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reviewed by Petra Penninkhoff, Technical Advisor, Ministry of Environment,

Agriculture, and Fisheries, Cape Verde, and Senior Advisor, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam

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The Challenge of Health Sector Reform: What Must Governments Do?

Author: 
Mills, Anne; Bennett, Sara; Russell, Steven
Publisher: 
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001, ISBN: 0674 00865 0, 205 pp.
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Reviewed by Valéry Ridde

PhD Candidate in Public Health, Laval Univeristy

Quebec

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