The underdeveloped country

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George Mavrotas and Mark McGillivray

"This book addresses a number of gaps in knowledge on aid allocation and effectiveness, and provides many new and important analytical insights into aid. Among the topics covered are the interface between aid allocation and perceptions of aid effectiveness, the inter-recipient concentration of aid from non-government organizations, the year-on-year volatility of aid, impacts of aid on public sector fistcal aggregates, and evaluation of the country-level impacts of aid. The book is an essential companion for professionals engaged in aid policy reforms and also for scholars in the areas of development economics, international finance and economics."--Jacket.

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George Martine ... [et al

George Martine provides comprehensive coverage of all the key issues of urban sustainability and solutions to poverty and environmental degradation.

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Daryl Collins ... [et al

The authors report on the yearlong "financial diaries" of villagers and slum dwellers in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa--records that track penny by penny how specific households manage their money. --from publisher description.

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Barbara Rose Johnston

Life and Death Matters is a collection of stories, events, and experiences that provide a sense of what life is like for those who confront the environmental crises of our time. Barbara Johnston, editor and principal author of Who Pays the Price?, once again puts her knowledge of human rights and environmental action to work to create a groundbreaking text, explicating how the life and death struggles of peoples across the globe do matter: to those involved, to those intimately and distantly responsible, and to the many who will, unless lasting solutions are found, sooner or later experience similar difficulties in their own lives.