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The Newly Industrializing Countries in the World Economy. By Bela Balassa. New York: Pergamon Press, 1981. Pp. xxiii + 461. $45.00 and $18.00. ISBN 0 08 026336 4 and 026335 6. Industrial Growth, Employment, and Foreign Investment in Peninsular Malaysia. By Lutz Hoffmann and Tan Siew Ee. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. xviii + 322. $42. ISBN 0 19 580415 5. Inequality and Economic Development in Malaysia. By Donald R. Snodgrass. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. xx + 326. £14.50. ISBN 0 19 580431 7. The Arab Economy: Past Performance and Future Prospects. By Yusif A. Sayigh. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. ix+175. £7.50. ISBN 0 19 877188 6. Arab Industrial Integration: A Strategy for Development. By Elias T. Ghantus. London: Croom Helm, 1982. Pp. 240. £16.95. ISBN 0 7099 1117 3. A Political Economy of Uruguay since 1870. By M. H. J. Finch. London: Macmillan, 1981. Pp. xiv+339. £20. ISBN 0 333 27852 6. Power and Ideology in Brazil. By Peter McDonough. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. Pp. xxxiv + 326. £17.60 and £5.65. ISBN 0 691 07628 6 and 0 691 02203 8. The Role of Finance in the Transition to Socialism. By Stephany Griffith-Jones. London: Frances Pinter, 1981. Pp. 194. £12.50. ISBN 0 86187 201 0. The New Communist Third World: An Essay in Political Economy. Edited by Peter Wiles. London: Croom Helm, 1981. Pp. 392. £15.95. ISBN 0 7099 2709 6. The Political Economy of West African Agriculture. By Keith Hart. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. ix + 226. £19.00 and £7.50 ISBN 0 521 24073 5 and 0 521 28423 6. The Struggle for Land: A Political Economy of the Pioneer Frontier in Brazil from 1930 to the Present Day. By Joe Foweraker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xxvi + 248. £20.00. ISBN 0 521 23555 3. Social Science Research Methods: An African Handbook. By Margaret Peil, with Peter K. Mitchell and Douglas Rimmer. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1982. Pp. vi + 234. £6.95. ISBN 0 340 26205 2. Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation. By Amartya Sen. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. Pp. ix + 257. £8.95 ISBN 0 19 828426 8. Law and Social Enquiry: Case Studies of Research. Edited by R. Luckham. Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies; New York: International Center for Law in Development, Studies of Law in Social Change and Development 5, 1981. Pp. 290. $20.00 and $8.00 (Third World countries); $25.00 and $16.00 (elsewhere). ISBN 91 7106 181 0 and 178 9