BOOK REVIEWS

In: The developing economies: the journal of the Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo, Japan, Band 42, Heft 4, S. 529-547

Abstract

The Books Reviewed in this Article: Investment Climate around the World: Voices of the Firms from the World Business Environment Survey by Geeta Batra, Daniel Kaufmann, and Andrew H. W. Stone, Washington, D.C., World Bank, 2003, xvi + 154 pp. The Philippine Economy: Development, Policies, and Challenges edited by Arsenio M. Balisacan and Hal Hill, Quezon City, Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2003, xxv + 466 pp. Reintegrating India with the World Economy by T. N. Srinivasan and Suresh D. Tendulkar, Washington, D.C., Institute for International Economics, 2003, xiv + 167 pp. Market Institutions in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Theory and Evidence by Marcel Fafchamps, Comparative Institutional Analysis, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2004, xx + 521 pp. Birth Control in China, 1949–2000: Population Policy and Demographic Development by Thomas Scharping, London, RoutledgeCurzon, 2003, xvi + 406 pp.