States, created with the central purpose of defending national independence, resist the process of macro-economic reform since it appears to limit their power to pursue this aim. The states of the former Centrally Planned Economies were marked out by their extreme subordination to the military...

Forests and Livelihoods: The Social Dynamics of Deforestation in Developing Countries. By Solon L. Barraclough and Krishna B. Ghimire. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1995. Pp.xiii + 259. £45 and £14.95. ISBN 0 333 62889 6 and 62890 X Disaster and Development in the Horn of Africa. Edited by...