Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Ports as Nodal Points in a Global Transport System . Edited by Antony J. Dolman and Jan Van Ettinger Economic Stabilization and Debt in Developing Countries . By Richard N. Cooper Multinational Investment in Developing Countries: A Study of Taxation and Nationalization . By Thomas Anderson Improving Development Program Performance: Guidelines for Managers . By Derick W. Brinkerhoff Democracy, Governance and Economic Policy: Sub‐Saharan Africa in Comparative Perspective . By John Healey and Mark Robinson Beyond Government: Organisations for Common Benefit . By Donald Curtis The Politics of Industrial Agriculture . By Tracey Clunies‐Ross and Nicholas Hildyard Refashioning Nature: Food, Ecology and Culture . By David Goodman and Michael Redclift Population and Development in Poor Countries: Selected Essays . By Julian L. Simon Cities in the 1990s: The Challenge for Developing Countries . Edited by Nigel Harris Models of Unemployment in Trade and Economic Development . By B. H. Hazari and P. M Contrasting Styles of Industrial Reform: China and India in the 1980s . By George Rosen A Captive Land: The Politics of Agrarian Reform in the Philippines . By James Putzel. London: Catholic Institute for International Relations Learning from Gal Oya: Possibilities for Participatory Development and Post‐Newtonian Social Science . By Norman Uphoff Japan's Global Reach . By Bill Emmott People First: A Guide to Self‐Reliant Participatory Rural Development . By Stan Burkey The Decline of Community in Zinacantán: Economy, Public Life, and Social Stratification, 1960–1987 . By Frank Cancian British Aid and International Trade: Aid Policy‐making 1979‐89 . By Oliver Morrissey, Brian Smith and Edward Horesh