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This article presents information regarding the book "Aspects of the Botswana Economy: Selected Papers," edited by J.S. Salkin. This book contains twenty-four research papers investigating various aspects of the Botswana economy, all of which have been supposedly related to operations, functions, and roles of the Bank of Botswana in the economy. This book deals with a macroeconomic analysis of the recent economic growth and performance of Botswana with the financial sector development in context of policies and strategies.

This article discusses the book "Output Decline in Eastern Europe: Unavoidable, External Influence or homemade?," edited by Robert Holzmann, János Gács and George Winckler. This book is a collection of fifteen papers, resulting from a conference held in Laxenburg in November 1993, examines output decline in Eastern Europe in the first phase of transition of centrally planned systems to market economies.

The article discusses the book "The Political Economy of Transition in Central and Eastern Europe," edited by Jens Bastian. Eight papers in the book explores aspects of the political economy of transition in Central and Eastern European countries. Papers of the book discusses the social and economic effects of direct capital inflows to Hungary since 1991 investment promotion in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland the challenge of introducing private pension funds in the transition economies of Central Europe.

This article presents information on the book "Cereals Sector Reform in the Former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe," edited by Lawrence D. Smith and Neil Spooner. This book is comprised with thirteen research papers obtained from a workshop; held in Kiev, Ukraine, in December 1995; on cereals sector reform and food security in independent states of the former Soviet Union and in Central and Eastern Europe. These papers explore various issues involved in the reform of transition economies of these countries, such as, the privatization of cereals marketing, the potential role of government in stabilizing price, and other political strategies.

This article presents information on the book "Innovations in Public Management: Perspectives From East and West Europe," edited by Tony Verheijen and David Coombes. This book is comprised with twenty-four research papers, investigating main problems in public management in Central and Eastern Europe. It analyzes feasibility of public administration models and strategies for reform, applied in Western Europe, in providing solutions to the particular problems of other transition countries. The book explores different theories of public management reform and their practical implications in European states.

The article presents information about the book "The Impact of Drought on Sub-Saharan African Economies: A Preliminary Examination." The papers of the book investigates the impact of drought shocks on sub-Saharan African economies. It also discusses physical-environment, financial-system and public-policy factors that may determine the nature of the interaction between drought and the economy. An exploration of the relationship between drought and economic structure is also provided. A presentation of some provisional findings on the relationship between drought and the economy is given.

The article provides information on the "International Policy Review," published annually. The journal considers policy issues at the local, national, and global levels. The Spring 1995 issue focuses on Northern Ireland and contains seventeen papers that discuss a vision for Northern Ireland; a framework for dialogue; a future for all the people of Northern Ireland; consolidating the progress; transforming Irish society; the economic benefits of Irish unification; the peace dividend and West Belfast; the International Fund for Ireland; the border question in the Irish settlement; transnational corporations in Ireland; the British economic subvention and the Irish peace process; Ireland and South Africa; the limits and potential of the Isrish peace process; political prisoners; the Catholic Church and the British state in Ireland; the Irish Catholic Church and a new Ireland; and the Irish language.

This article discusses the book "Financing Government in the Transition: Bulgaria: The Political Economy of Tax Policies, Tax Bases, and Tax Evasion," edited by &Zbreve;eljko Bogetić and Arye L. Hillman. This book analyzes Bulgaria's experience with government finance reforms. The topics covered in the book are private sector, state enterprises, and informal economic activity in Bulgaria, income tax reform and investment incentives, households and the state, household taxation and income distribution, central and local government tax relations, and lost revenue in the excise taxation of fuel.

This article discusses the book "The Czech Republic and Economic Transition in Eastern Europe," edited by Jan Svejnar. This book analyzes the transition of the centrally planned economies of Central and Eastern Europe by examining in a comparative perspective the relatively successful case of the Czech Republic. The papers discussed in the book focuses on a comparative view of economic developments in the Czech Republic, the political system and economic transition, the quality and availability of statistical data, the macroeconomic situation in the Czech Republic money, and demand and seignorage in transition.

This article presents information on the book "Challenges of Transformation and Transition From Centrally Planned to Market Economies," edited by Kempe Ronald Hope. The book focuses on fourteen papers presented at a symposium organized by United Nations Centre for Regional Development in collaboration with the Development Research Center of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, as of June 1999. The papers examine the current problems and future prospects of the transitional economies, the different modes of transition, and the social costs of the reforms, and policy prescriptions for mitigating those problems.

This article presents information on the book "Japanese Economic Policy Reconsidered," edited by Craig Freedman. The book contains nine papers presented at a conference held in August 1996 at Macquarie University under the auspices of the Centre for Japanese Economic Studies. The papers evaluate the problems facing Japan and consider economic policy responses. The papers also discuss the Japanese economy at a historical crossroads, structural reforms proposed in the Japanese government's mid-term economic plan and theoretical approaches to the Japan-America security alliance.

The article presents information about the book "Industrial Policy in Britain, 1945-1951: Economic Planning, Nationalisation and the Labour Governments," by Martin Chick. The book examines the development and effectiveness of economic planning and nationalization in Great Britain during the Attlee governments, focusing on industrial policy. The author studies the early changes in the machinery of economic planning; the influence of economic planning on the level of industrial investment; and the criteria and factors that influenced the allocation of resources between competing industries. The book also examines the origins and structure of the nationalization program and the early arguments concerning the rules for pricing in the nationalized industries. The book also investigates the impact of economic planning on the investment decisions of industrialists by studying the plant choices made by managers in nationalized electricity and railway industries and the attempts of planners to promote rationalization and modernization in the textile and iron and steel industries. It also addresses whether the incentives offered to managers were likely to encourage them to act as planners intended.

The article provides information on the book "Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's industrial Frontier," by Anne Kelly Knowles. The book studies the emigration of Welsh Calvinists from rural Cardiganshire, Wales, to southern Ohio. It illuminates the ways in which cultural beliefs and institutions influenced the social formation of capitalism in a rural locality and how economic change influenced immigrant culture, particularly as economic success in the American capitalist system came to threaten the moral basis of Welsh identity. It lays out the national context of early nineteenth-century Welsh emigration to the United States to determine whether those who left for Jackson and Gallia counties in Ohio were typical for their time. It considers the development of long-standing traditions of internal migration that connected Cardiganshire to areas of greater economic opportunity. It also explores the localized cultural and economic reasons for emigration to Jackson/Gallia.

The article focuses on the book "The Reluctant Retreat: The Soviet and East German Departure From Central Planning," by Phillip J. Bryson. The book retraces the process of abandoning socialism in East Germany and in Russia. The book considers the fundamental nature of central planning and reviews the frustrating attempts to modify or reform it so as to achieve at least minimal efficiency without losing directive control for the Communist Party.

The article presents information about the book "Capitalism in Contention: Business Leaders and Political Economy in Modern Britain," by Jonathan Boswell and James Peters. The book studies the social ideas of Great Britain business leaders since 1960, focusing on 170 articulate business leaders who constituted about 25 percent of the total number of heads of the largest enterprises during the period. Addresses the ideology of revisionism as emergent in the early 1960s. Examines the relationships between business opinion and the Labour governments of 1964-70, when revisionism was greatly tested.

The article focuses on the book Income, Inequality, and Poverty During the Transition From Planned to Market Economy, by Branko Milanovic. This book examines what happened to income, inequality, and poverty in eighteen formerly socialist countries from the collapse of communism to about 1996. This book is based on household budget surveys, most conducted by national statistical offices and some conducted by independent nongovernmental organizations. This book reviews the key features of income composition, income inequality, and social policy in the former system. It also examines what happened to the size and composition of the population's real income during the transition. This book analyzes the inequality with which income and expenditures are distributed and the change in the relative position of different social groups during the transition. The book further assesses what happened to poverty under the twin impact of declining income and growing inequality. It also discusses the key social policy issues facing policymakers in designing safety net programs in transition countries.

The article discusses about the book "Poland Country Assistance Review: Partnership in a Transition Economy," Luis Landau. This book evaluates the overall relevance, efficacy, and efficiency of the World Bank's assistance to Poland during 1986-96. Describes how the Bank's assistance strategy has changed over time. Examines Bank assistance for systemic and institutional transformation and social amelioration and its support for private sector, and infrastructure development.

The article presents information on the book "The Modern Corporation and American Political Thought: Law, Power, and Ideology," by Scott R. Bowman. It analyzes corporate power in the U. S. and explains how economic, legal, political, and ideological factors have contributed to its socially comprehensive character. Traces the rise of corporate power through major stages in the development of American law and the concomitant growth of corporate enterprise from 1781 to 1916. Examines the reconstruction of American liberalism in the early twentieth century in response to the social and political problems posed by the power of large corporations, focusing on Herbert Croly, Walter Weyl, and Thorstein Veblen. Explores the role of law in structuring and regulating the dimensions of corporate power in the era of corporate capitalism. Considers the development of a managerial theory of corporate power, analyzing the writings of Peter F. Drucker, Adolph A. Berle, and John Kenneth Galbraith.

This article discusses the book "China: Options for Reform in the Grain Sector." This study by the World Bank considers China's grain sector. It describes developments in Chinese agriculture since 1979, discussing the legacy of central planning, reform in the 1980s, and areas of limited reform, trends in agricultural expenditure, and the incidence of poverty. It discusses the performance of the grain sector and future prospects under various policy assumptions, and estimates future technical possibilities in agriculture, China's prospects in the international grain trade, investment and agricultural financing requirements, and trade-offs between fertilizer self-sufficiency and a more import-based strategy.