... development, human rights, or liberal justice. Of course, the universality of such values is always undermined by the politics of how they are realized and by the contextually specific nature of actors central to realizing development objectives. The central developmental actor for the books under review...

...Mustapha Kamal Pasha Capitalist Development: Critical Essays (Felicitation Volume in Honour of Prof. A. R. Desai) . Edited by Ghanshyam Shah . Bombay : Popular Prakashan , 1990 . xii , 411 pp. Rs. 450.00. Development Planning and Structural Inequalities: The Response...

...V. V. Bhatt The Financial Development of India, 1860–1977 . By Raymond W. Goldsmith . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press , 1983 . xv, 240 pp. Tables, Index. N.p. The Financial Development of Japan, 1868–1977 . By Raymond W. Goldsmith . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University...

...Ralph B. Price Economic Growth and Underdeveloped Countries . By Maurice Dobb . New York : International Publishers , 1963 . 64 . $2.00. (paper, $1.00) Indian Planning and Economic Development . By B. R. Shenoy . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1963 . x, 152 . $6.50...

...John Schrecker Chung-kuo tsao-ch'i te t'ieh-lu ching-ying [The initial development of railroads in China] ., By Li Kuo-ch'i . Nan-kang, Taiwan : The Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica , 1961 . Special Publication Series. 243. Chronological table, Bibliography, Map. 80...

...Bert F. Hoselitz Papers on National Income and Allied Topics; Vol. II . Edited by V. K. R. V. Rao , S. R. Sen , M. V. Divatia , and Uma Datta . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1962 . $8.00. Hindu Culture; Economic Development and Economic Planning in India; A Collection...

..., the "engineering" method of creating competing incentives not only promotes reform but, as the foregoing examples suggest, has the concomitant effect of promoting economic development and growth. Reformist measures in Southeast Asia, which are directly tied to productive developmental activities, are, I believe...

...Norman G. Owen Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 VOL. XXXV, No. i JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES NOVEMBER 1975 Colonialism, Development, and Under-Development in Burma* The period of British rule in Burma presents a nicely defined case study in colonialism for the socio...

...Bruce Koppel The Asian Development Bank and Rural Development: Policy and Practice . By Robert Wihtol . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1988 . xii , 218 pp. $55.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 582 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The Asian...

...Byron Mook Legislators, Development, and Representation in Sri Lanka: The Decentralization of Development Planning . By Robert C. Oberst . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1985 . xiv, 157 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $17 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Robin Jeffrey Science in Participatory Development. The Achievements and Dilemmas of a Development Movement: The Case of Kerala . By Mathew Zachariah and R. Sooryamoorthy . London and Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books , 1994 . 187 pp. $55.00 (hardback), $19.95 (paper...

...H. W. Arndt Financial Sector Development in Asia . Edited by Shahid N. Zahid . Hong Kong : Oxford University Press for Asian Development Bank , 1995 . xxiv, 410 pp. $69.00. Financial Sector Development in Asia: Country Studies . Edited by Shahid N. Zahid . Hong Kong : Oxford...

...Warren S. Hunsberger Bureaucracy and Rural Development in Malaysia: A Study of Complex Organizations in Stimulating Economic Development in New States . By Gayl D. Ness . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1967 . xvi , 257 pp. Maps, Tables, Bibliography, Index...

...Harold A. Gould Selected Readings on Community Development . Edited by T. P. S. Chawdhari . Hyderabad, India : National Institute of Community Development , 1967 . ii, 100 pp. Graphs, Tables, References at the end of each article. Rs 10.00. People's Image of Community Development...

...Chang Yun-Shik Two Koreas in Development: A Comparative Study of Principles and Strategies of Capitalist and Communist Third World Development . By Byoung-Lo Philo Kim . New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction publishers , 1992 . xix, 240 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century . By Thomas G. Rawski . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1980 . 211 pp . Tables, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $16.50. China's Development Experience in Comparative Perspective . Edited by Robert F. Dernberger . Cambridge : Harvard...

...Graham E. Johnson Chinese Rural Development: The Great Transformation . Edited by William L. Parish . Armonk, N.Y. : M. E. Sharpe , 1985 . vii, 278 pp. Index. About the Authors. $35 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Institutional Reform and Economic Development in the Chinese Countryside...

...Mah-Hui Lim The Natural Rubber Industry: Its Development, Technology, and Economy in Malaysia . By Colin Barlow . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1978 . xxiv, 500 pp. Plates, Figures, Tables, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $43.00. Primary Commodity Exports and Economic...

...William A. Withington Area, Development Policy and the Middle City in Malaysia . By James Osborn . Chicago : The University of Chicago Department of Geography Research Paper No. 153 , 1974 . x, 291 pp. Tables, Illustrations, Appendixes, Bibliography. $5.00 National Development Policy...

...Michael F. Maniates Kerala: Radical Reform as Development in an Indian State . By Richard W. Franke and Barbara H. Chasin . Food First Development Report, No. 6. San Francisco, Calif. : The Institute For Food and Development Policy , 1989 . 122 pp. $6.00 (plus $2.00 postage...