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Volume 14, number 6

Editorial Alina Rocha Menocal

Articles

A new wave of decentralisation in Latin America? A Conversation with Rosemary Thorp
Alina Rocha Menocal

Democratic decentralisation and poverty reduction in Madhya Pradesh: searching for an institutional equilibrium
William McCarten and Vinod Vyasulu

Analysing micro-assistance to democracy: the European Community supporting grassroots organisations in South Africa
Lorenzo Fioramonti

Promoting gender sensitivity in local governance in Ghana
Esther Ofei-Aboagye

Decentralised transformative leadership approaches to HIV/AIDS in Nepal 2002-2004
Janet Sanders and Tatwa Timsina

Decentralisation and democracy in developing countries: an overview
Fidelx Pius Kulipossa

Democratic decentralisation and local participation: a review of recent research
Sylvia Bergh

Annotated Resources on democracy and decentralisation
Alina Rocha Menocal and Deborah Eade

Book reviews

Krishna, Anirudh
Active Social Capital: Tracing the Roots of Development and Democracy
New York, NY: Colombia University Press, 2002, ISBN: 0 231 12571 2, 252 pp.
reviewed by
John Harriss
Development Studies Institute, LSE, London

Eversole, Robyn (ed.)
Here to Help: NGOs Combating Poverty in Latin America
Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2003, ISBN: 0 7656 1107 4, 252 pp.
reviewed by
Morna Macleod
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City

Onimode, Bade et al.
African Development and Governance Strategies in the 21st Century - Looking Back to Move Forward: Essays in Honour of Adebayo Adedeji at Seventy
London: Zed Books, 2004, ISBN: 1 84277 408 3, 384 pp.
reviewed by
Dharam Ghai
Independent Researcher and Adviser, ILO, Geneva

Kelkar, Govind, Dev Nathan, and Pierre Walter (eds.)
Gender Relations in Forest Societies in Asia: Patriarchy at Odds
New Delhi: Sage Publications, in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the Asian Institute of Technology, and the Centre for International Forestry Research, 2003, ISBN: 81 7829 251 3, 325 pp.
reviewed by
Sabita Banerji
Internal Communications Programme, Oxfam GB, Oxford

Hunt, Constance Elizabeth
Thirsty Planet: Strategies for Sustainable Water Management
London: Zed Books, 2003, ISBN: 1 844277 243 0, 320 pp.
reviewed by
François Molle
International Water Management Institute, Colombo

Huber, Evelyne (ed.)
Models of Capitalism: Lessons for Latin America
University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2003, ISBN: 0 271 02176 4, 492 pp.
reviewed by
Philip Oxhorn
Department of Political Science, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

Wilensky, Harold L.
Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy, and Performance
Berkeley , CA: University of California Press, 2002, ISBN: 0520 23279 8, 891 pp.
reviewed by
Ross Burkhart
Department of Political Science, Boise State University, Boise, Indiana

 

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