Book Reviews

In: Development and change, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 193-209

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Books reviewed in this article:Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere ElseArun Agrawal and K. Sivaramakrishnan (eds), Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representation and Rule in India>Florence E. Babb, After Revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal NicaraguaRichard Meyer and Geetha Nagarajan, Rural Financial Markets in Asia: Policies, Paradigms, and Practice. Study of Rural Asia, Volume 3Paul B. McGuire, John D. Conroy and Ganesh B. Thapa, Getting the Framework Right: Policy and Regulation for Microfinance in AsiaNavroz K. Dubash, Tubewell Capitalism: Groundwater Development and Agrarian Change in GujaratAnanta Kumar Giri (ed.), Rethinking Social Transformation: Criticism and Creativity at the Turn of the MillenniumTor A. Benjaminsen and Christian Lund (eds), Politics, Property and Production in the West African Sahel: Understanding Natural Resource ManagementLiz Alden Wily and Sue Mbaya, Land, People and Forests in Eastern and Southern Africa at the Beginning of the 21st Century: The Impact of Land Relations on the Role of Communities in Forest FutureA. Wood, P. Stedman–Edwards and J. Mang (eds), The Root Causes of Biodiversity LossCharles Landry, The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban InnovatorsPaul Sillitoe, Social Change in Melanesia: Development and HistoryAlice H. Amsden, The Rise of 'the Rest': Challenges to the West from Late–Industrializing EconomiesA. S. Bhalla, Market or Government Failures? An Asian Perspective