Book reviews

The Divided Economy of Mandatory Palestine. By Jacob Metzer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.xxii + 275. £40. ISBN 0 521 46550 8 The Political Economy of Market Reform in Jordan. By Timothy J. Piro. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. Pp.xvi + 152. $54.00 and $19.95. ISBN 0 8476 8881 X and 8882 8 External Finance in Thailand's Development: An Interpretation of Thailand's Growth Boom. By Karl Jansen. London: Macmillan Press, 1997. Pp.301. £55. ISBN 0 333 72115 2 China's Political Economy. Edited by Wang Gungwu and John Wong. London: World Scientific, 1998. Pp.viii +373. £21. ISBN 981 02 3428 7 Assessing Aid: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why (A World Bank Policy Research Report). New York: Oxford University Press for the World Bank, 1998. Pp.xii + 148. $30. ISBN 0 19 521123 5 How Latin America Fell Behind: Essays on the Economic Histories of Brazil and Mexico, 1800-1914. Edited by Stephen Haber. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp.xi + 315. $18.95. ISBN 0 8047 2738 4 Can the Poor Influence Policy? Participatory Poverty Assessments in the Developing World. By Carolyn M. Robb. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1999. Pp.xii + 128. NP. ISBN 0 8213 4144 8 Aid and the Political Economy of Policy Change. By Tony Killick with Ramani Gunatilaka and Ana Marr. London and New York: Routledge for the Overseas Development Institute, 1998. Pp.xvi + 221. $90 and $32.99. ISBN 0 415 18704 4 and 18705 2 Chinese Aid and African Development: Exporting Green Revolution. By Deborah Brautigam. Basingstoke: Macmillan and New York: St Martin's Press, International Political Economy Series, 1998. Pp.xiii +268. £45. ISBN 0 333 71280 3 (UK); 0 333 71110 6 and 0 312 21061 2 (North America) Flexible Automation in Developing Countries: The Impact of Scale and Scope and the Implications for Location of Production. By Ludovico Alcorta et al. London: Routledge in association with UNU Press, 1998. Pp.xix + 453. £65. ISBN 0 415 19153 X