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1984; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 20; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00220388408421923

1743-9140

H. W. Singer, George L. Irvin, Radha Sinha, John Dunn, Lewis Taylor, Tekaligne Godana, Andy Vickerman, Arthur Hazlewood, Norman Gemmell, Rameshwar Tandon,

Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics

Can the Third World Survive? By Jacques Loup. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. Pp.xv + 244. £21.25 and £7.75. ISBN 0 8018 2765 5 and 2766 3. (Originally published in France as Le Tiers‐Monde peut‐il survivre?, Economica, 1980.) Revolutionary Socialist Development in the Third World. Edited by Gordon White, Robin Murray and Christine White. Brighton, Sussex: Wheatsheaf Books, 1983. Pp.ix + 278. £20 and £6.95. ISBN 0 7108 0220 X and 0225 0. Economic Growth in Prewar Japan. By Takafusa Nakamura. Translated from the Japanese by Robert A. Feldman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983. Pp. xv + 326. £30. ISBN 0 300 02451 7. An Anatomy of Ghanaian Politics: Managing Political Recession, 1969–1982. By Naomi Chazan. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press (UK distributor: Bowker), 1983. Pp.xvii + 429. £24. ISBN 0 86531 439 X. The Peruvian Experiment Reconsidered. Edited by Cynthia McClintock and Abraham Lowenthal. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp.xxi + 442. £38.70 and £8.65. ISBN 0 691 07648 0 and 0 691 02214 3. Military Reformism and Social Classes: The Peruvian Experience, 1968–80. Edited by David Booth and Bernardo Sorj. London: Macmillan, 1983. Pp.xiii + 210. £20. ISBN 0 333 28419 4. The Peruvian Revolution and the Officers in Power, 1968–1976. By Liisa North and Tanya Korovkin. Montreal: McGill University, Center for Developing‐Area Studies, Occasional Monograph 15, 1981. Pp.iii + 136. $5. ISBN 0 88819 049 2. Brazil's State‐Owned Enterprises: A Case Study of the State as Entrepreneur. By Thomas J. Trebat. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp.xviii + 294. £22.50. ISBN 0 521 23716 5. Gifts and Commodities. By C. A. Gregory. London: Academic Press, 1982. Pp.vii + 242. £20 and £8.50. ISBN 0 12 301460 3 and 301462 X. Consumer Choice in the Third World: A Study of the Welfare Effects of Advertising and New Products in a Developing Country. By Jeffrey James. London: Macmillan, 1983. Pp.x + 178. £20. ISBN 0 333 31999 0. A World of Differentials: African Pay Structures in a Transnational Context. By Ragia Abdin, Paul Bennell, Olufemi Fajana, Martin Godfrey and Bachir Hamdouch. London: Hodder & Stoughton in association with IDRC, Ottawa, 1983. Pp.v + 152. £6.95. ISBN 0 340 33415 0. Manpower and International Labor Migration in the Middle East and North Africa. By Ismail Serageldin, James A. Socknat, Stace Birks, Bob Li and Clive A. Sinclair. New York: Oxford University Press for World Bank, 1983. Pp.xi + 138. £22.50. ISBN 0 19 520406 9. Mobilizing Human Resources in the Arab World. By R. Paul Shaw. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983. Pp.xix + 268. £25. ISBN 0 7103 0040 9. Energy Planning for Developing Countries: A Study of Bangladesh. By Russell J. deLucia, Henry D. Jacoby et al. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. Pp.xx + 298. £18/$31. ISBN 0 8018 2769 8.