Book reviews

Democracy Without Equity: Failures of Reform in Brazil. By Kurt Weyland Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. Pp. xii + 293. $49.95 and $22.95. ISBN 0 8229 3924 X and 5583 0 Marketizing Education and Health in Developing Countries: Miracle or Mirage? Edited by Christopher Colclough. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp.ix + 378. £48. ISBN 0 19 8292554 Vietnam's Women in Transition. Edited by Kathleen Barry. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan Pmss, 1996. Pp.xviii + 332. £50 and £17.99. ISBN 0 333 64668 1 and 64669 X The Foreign Aid Business: Economic Assistance and Development Co-operation. By Kunibert Rafter and H.W Singer. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1996. Pp.xii + 236. £45. ISBN 1 85898 406 8 Latin America: Development and Conflict since 1945. By John Ward. London: Routledge, 1997. Pp.127. £8.99. ISBN 0 415 14725 5 The Politics of Open Economies: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. By Alasdair Bowie and Danny Unger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.ix + 245. £14.95/$18.95 and £40.00/$59.95. ISBN 0 521 58683 6 and 58343 8 Japan's Foreign Aid to Thailand and The Philippines. By David M. Potter. Basingstoke, Macmillan Press, 1996. Pp.208, £29.50. ISBN 0 333 67341 7 The Theory of the Global Firm. By Vinay Bharat-Ram. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp.ix +127. Rs 395. ISBN 0 19 564183 3 A Half-Penny on the Federal Dollar: The Future of Development Aid. By Michael O'Hanlon and Carol Graham. Washington, DC: Brvokings Institution Press, 1997. Pp.xiii + 102. $14.95 ISBN 0 8157 6445 6 White Farms, Black Labor: The State of Agrarian Change in Southern Africa, 1910-1950. Edited by Alan H. Jeeves and Jonathan Crush. Published jointly by Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press; Oxford: James Currey; and Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1997. Pp.xiv + 344. $60 and $26.95. ISBN 0 85255 674 8 and 624 1 Pathways to Growth: Comparing East Asia and Latin America. Edited by N. Birdsall and F. Jaspersen. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press for the Inter-American Development Bank, 1997 Pp.ix + 323. £16.50. ISBN 1 886938 13 X Institutions and Economic Development: Growth and Governance in Less-Developed and Post-Socialist Societies. Edited by Christopher Clague. Baltimore MD and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Pp.xiii + 383. £40 and £15.50. ISBN 0 8018 5492 X and 5493 8