Book reviews

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Project Appraisal in Developing Countries. Edited by Colin Kirkpatrick and John Weiss. Cheltenham and Brookfteld, VT: Edward Elgar, 1996. Pp.xiii + 321. £49.95. ISBN 1 85898 346 0 Chile: The Great Transformation. By Javier Martinez and Alvaro Diaz Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, and Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 1996. Pp.xii + 156. £27.25 and £11.75. ISBN 0 8157 5478 7 and 5477 9. The Fractured Community: Landscapes of Power and Gender in Rural Zambia By Kate Crehan. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. Pp.xiv + 258. £40 and £15.95. ISBN 0 520 20659 2 and 20660 6 Village Economies: The Design, Estimation, and Use of Villagewide Economic Models. By J. Edward Taylor and Irma Adelman, with contributions from Elise H. Golan, Blaine D. Lewis, Katherine Ralston, Shankar Subramanian and Erik Thorbecke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.ix + 264. £35. ISBN 0 52155012 2 Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives. Edited by Jean Drze and Amartya Sen. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp.xx + 420. £40. ISBN 019 829204 X Politics Without Process: Administering Development in the Arab World. By Jamil E. Jreisat. Boulder, CO and London: Lynne Rienner, 1997. Pp.vii + 261. $52. ISBN 1 55587 333 2 Population, Gender and Politics: Demographic Change in Rural North India. By Roger Jeffery and Patricia Jeffery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xvi + 278. £50 and £16.95. ISBN 0 521 461162 and 46653 9 Human Development Report 1997. By UNDP. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp.xi + 245. £29.99 and £16.99. ISBN 0 19 511996 7 and 511997 5 Class Power and Agrarian Change: Land and Labour in Rural West Java. By Jonathan R. Pincus. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan Press, 1996. Pp.xii + 248. £40. ISBN 0 312 1827 0 A Claim to Land by the River: A Household in Senegal 1720-1994. By Adrian Adams and Jaabe So. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp.xiv + 293. £50. ISBN 0 19 8201915 Foreign Aid Towards the Year 2000: Experiences and Challenges. By Olav Stokke. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass in association with the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes, 1996. Pp.361. £35 and £16. ISBN 0 7146 4713 6 and 429 2 Striking a Balance: A Guide to Enhancing the Effectiveness of Non-Governmental Organisations in International Development By Alan Fowler. London: Earthscan Publications, 1997. Pp.xv + 298. £14.95. ISBN 1 85383 325 8 The Role of NGOs Under Authoritarian Political Systems. By Seamus Cleary. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press and New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. £45. ISBN 0 333 67090 6 (Macmillan) and 0 312 17464 0 (St. Martin's) Democracy and Development in Africa. By Claude Ake. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1996. Pp.vii + 173. £30 and £13.75. ISBN 0 8157 0220 5 and 0219 1 Searching for Security: Women's Responses to Economic Transformations. Edited by Isa Baud and Ines Smythe. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. £40. ISBN 0 415 14227 X Democracy and Civil Society in the Third World. By Jeff Haynes. Oxford: Polity Press, 1997. Pp.207. £45 and £12.95. ISBN 0745612461 and 61647X