Social sector

Poverty in Plenty: A Human Development Report for the UK

Author: 
Seymour, Jane (ed.)
Publisher: 
London: Earthscan, 2000, ISBN: 1 85383 707 5.
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Reviewed by Kate Evans, ATD Fourth World, UK

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Adult Education at the Crossroads: Learning Our Way Out

Author: 
Finger, Matthias; Asun, Jose Manuel
Publisher: 
London: Zed Books, 2001, ISBN: 1 85649 751, 207 pp.
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Reviewed by Rosemary Ebele Nwangwu, Department of Adult Education, University of Lagos, Nigeria

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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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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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Foreign Direct Investment for Development: Maximising Benefits, Minimising Costs

Author: 
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher: 
Paris: OECD, 2002, ISBN: 9 26419 927 6, 232 pp.
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reviewed by

Andrew Mold

Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales, Madrid

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The Right to Education Denied: Costs and Remedies

Author: 
Tomasevski, Katarina
Publisher: 
London: Zed Books, 2003, ISBN: 1 84277 251 1, 205 pp.
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reviewed by

Anne Jellema

Advocacy Coordinator, Global Campaign for Education, Cape Town

In English only

Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor

Author: 
Farmer, Paul, with a Foreword by Amartya Sen
Publisher: 
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, 402 pp.
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reviewed by

Claudio Schuftan

Ho Chi Minh City

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AIDS in the Twenty-first Century: Disease and Globalization

Author: 
Barnett, Tony and Alan Whiteside
Publisher: 
Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, ISBN: 1 4 39 9996 X, 416 pp.
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reviewed by

Catherine Campbell

Social Psychology Department, LSE, London

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Rural Poverty, Risk and Development

Author: 
Fafchamps, Marcel
Publisher: 
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2004, ISBN: 1 84376 436 9, 288 pp.
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reviewed by

Michael Lipton

Poverty Research Unit at Sussex, University of Sussex, UK

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