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Volume 15, number 5

 

Editorial Deborah Eade

Articles

Labour migration: a developmental path or a low-level trap?
David Ellerman

Collaborative research as an anti-poverty tool: a research partnership between police and indigenous Australians
Robyn Eversole and Richard Routh

Beyond PRA: experiments in facilitating local action in water management
Wouter Schaap and Snehangshu Sekhar Nandi

Finding a curriculum that works under trees: literacy and health education for adolescent girls in rural Malawi
Angela Hogg, Berlina Makwiza, Stella Mlanga, Robin Broadhead, and Loretta Brabin

Viewpoint

How can Kenyans abroad contribute to national development?
Dharam Ghai

Canterbury to Cameroon: A new partnership between faiths and the World Bank
Christopher L. Pallas

Practical Notes

The development impact of remittances to Nicaragua
Allen Jennings and Matthew Clarke

Attacking social exclusion: combining rehabilitative and preventive approaches to leprosy in Bangladesh
Sophie Plagerson

Research Round-up

Women, workers, and migrants in the globalised public health sector: debate at the 2004 International Labour Conference
Kim Van Eyck

Arms sales and development: making the critical connection
Jane Chanaa

Book Reviews

Hickey, Samuel and Giles Mohan (eds.)
Participation: From Tyranny to Transformation? Exploring New Approaches to Participation in Development
London, New York: Zed Books, 2004, ISBN: 1 84277 460 3, 304 pp.
reviewed by
Robert Chambers
IDS, University of Sussex, UK

Kaufman, Robert R. and Joan M. Nelson (eds.)
Crucial Needs, Weak Incentives: Social Sector Reform, Democratization and Globalization in Latin America
Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, ISBN: 0 8018 8032 3, 560 pp.
reviewed by
Armando Barrientos
IDPM, University of Manchester, UK

Campbell, Tim and Harald Fuhr (eds.)
Leadership and Innovation in Subnational Government: Case Studies from Latin America
Washington, DC: The World Bank Institute, 2004, ISBN: 0 8213 5707 7, 450 pp.
reviewed by
Henry Dietz
Department of Government, University of Texas, Austin, USA

Baron, Dan
Alfabetização Cultural: a luta íntima por uma nova humanidade
São Paulo: Alfarrabio Editora (editora@alfarrabio.com.br), 2004, ISBN: 85 89147 02 9 431 pp.
reviewed by
Mike Powell, Management Consultant, UK

Gaspar, Des
The Ethics of Development
Edinburgh: Edinburgh Studies in World Ethics, Edinburgh University Press, 2004, ISBN 07486 1058 8 255 pp.
reviewed by
Deborah Eade, Editor-in-Chief, Development in Practice

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