Book reviews

Collective Clientelism: The Lomé Conventions and North-South Relations. By John Ravenhill. New York Columbia University Press, 1985. Pp. xxi + 389. $49. ISBN 0 23105804 7. Transforming the World-Economy? Nine Critical Essays on the New International Economic Order. Edited by Herb Addo. London: Hodder & Stoughton in association with the United Nations University, 1984. Pp. xi + 320. £12.50 ISBN 0 340 35633 2. Power, Passions, and Purpose: Prospects for North-South Negotiations. Edited by Jagdish N. Bhagwati and John Gerard Ruggie. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984, Pp. 338. £27/$40.50 and £9.95/516.90. ISBN 262 02201 X and 52091 5. The Less Developed Economy: A Critique of Contemporary Theory. By Kaushik Basu. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984. Pp. x+198. £17.50. ISBN0631 13111 6. Land, Labour and Rural Poverty: Essays in Development Economics. By Pranab Bardhan. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1984. Pp. ix+252. NP. ISBN 0 231 05 388 6. Labour Absorption in Agriculture: Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Investigations. By Anne Booth and R.M. Sundrum. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. xii + 327. £17.50 and £7.95. ISBN 0 19 877205 X and 877204 1. Rural Development and Human Fertility. Edited by Wayne A. Schutjer and C. Shannon Stokes. New York Collier-Macmillan, 1985. Pp. ix + 318. ISBN 0 02 949680 2. Human Resource Policies, Economic Growth, and Demographic Change in Developing Countries. By David Wheeler. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. Pp. xiii + 179. £15. ISBN 0 19 828459 4. India's Demography: Essays on the Contemporary Population. Edited by Tim Dyson and Nigel Crook. New Delhi: South Asia Publishers Pvt., 1984. Pp. vi + 235. £8.75 from BSPS, London School of Economics (£5.75 to BSPS members). Women in Third World Development. By Sue Ellen M. Charlton. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, UK distributor Bowker, 1984. Pp. xiv + 240. £35.25 and £15.25. ISBN 0 86531 734 8 and 735 6. Missing Women: Development Planning in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Noeleen Heyzer. Kuala Lumpur: Asian and Pacific Development Centre, 1985. Pp.xxxii + 419. NP. ISBN 967 99954 3 7. Technology and Rural Women: Conceptual and Empirical Issues. Edited by Iftikhar Ahmed. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1985. Pp. xvi + 383. £20. ISBN 0 04 382043 3. Women in the Cities of Asia: Migration and Urban Adaptation. Edited by James T. Fawcett, Siew-Ean Khoo and Peter C. Smith. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, UK distributor Bowker, 1984. Pp. xviii + 406. £19. ISBN 0 86531 814 X. Women, Power, and Ec