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The book review titled "Why states matter in economic development the socioeconomic origins of strong institutions" by Jawied Nawabi delves into the role of effective state institutions in economic development. Through historical case studies from countries like South Korea, Brazil, India, Spain, France, and the UK, the author explores how state institutions are formed and their impact on socio-economic progress. The book emphasizes the importance of understanding the historical context of state development and the role of agrarian reform in creating conditions for positive changes in various sectors. It concludes that the quality of the state greatly influences economic progress, with land ownership playing a crucial role in shaping state capacity and inclusive development. [Extracted from the article]

"Caring for Place: Community Development in Rural England" by P. Healey is a reflective and original book that explores the author's work in her local community of Wooler in Northumberland. Healey combines her academic and practitioner understanding to present a way of analyzing the complexity of micro-social dynamics in governance. The book showcases the achievements and struggles of real people in a rural community, highlighting the importance of self-organizing communities and the challenges they face in sustaining themselves and flourishing. Overall, the book offers a nuanced yet hopeful message that supports progressive governance and provides insights for researchers and activists interested in community development. [Extracted from the article]

This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Rural Governance in the UK: Towards a Sustainable and Equitable Society" is a book edited by Adrienne Attorp, Sean Heron, and Ruth McAreavey that explores the challenges and opportunities faced by the UK's countryside, including Brexit, climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic, and geopolitical turmoil. The book consists of 12 chapters written by experts in environmental planning, land use, sustainable agriculture, and rural development. It covers topics such as rural governance, land management, agriculture, forestry, renewable energy, digitization, gender equality, and the impact of Brexit on rural communities. The book aims to contribute to the academic debate and provide insights for policymakers, institutions, social organizations, and stakeholders in creating a more just and sustainable rural environment in the UK and beyond. [Extracted from the article]

But the author also explains how I weak government capacity i had deleterious effects on the preparation for the CRR's implementation stage, especially in terms of strengthening and creating new institutions. New laws (such as the 2011 I Law for Victims and Land Restitution i ) and institutions were created that would hold the state accountable for redistributing land and providing other kinds of support to victims as part of a larger state-building exercise. While the observations on the CRR's political feasibility creating a credible commitment was important within the frame of the negotiation phase, the author could have retrospectively commented on the CRR's current low and uneven implementation vis-à-vis the other chapters in the Peace Agreement. This chapter is particularly strong in its disaggregation of government actors and processes, and it effectively counters the oversimplified narrative of conflict-ridden states being unable to build peace due to lack of state control. [Extracted from the article]

In I Mobilizing for Development i , political scientist Kristen E. Looney masterfully illuminates and compares the poorly understood - and often ignored - role that rural development played in the developmental success stories of Taiwan, South Korea, and China. It is not Weberian institutionalized states that Looney describes, but more Leninist-inspired ones, with their indicative application of mobilization and state-led campaigns. In this way, Looney corrects the commonly accepted understanding of a developmental state, which describes a bureaucratically coherent central state that plans, leads, and shapes industrial growth in economies such as these. [Extracted from the article]

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Using the backdrop of a former mill town turned amenity destination in Northern Idaho, Ryanne Pilgeram explores rural gentrification in I Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West i (2021). Chapters two and three describe the "devaluation" period of the boom-and-bust cycle and the struggle of Dover's long-time residents to save their town in the face of disinvestment and neglect. The start of this second exploitation-devaluation cycle, and the challenges it poses to new and old residents of Dover, is explored in chapters six and seven. [Extracted from the article]

Regional and local development in times of polarisation: re-thinking spatial policies in Europe: edited by Thilo Lang and Franziska Gormar, Singapore, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, ISBN: 978-981-13-1189-5. Regional and local development in times of polarisation: re-thinking spatial policies in Europe, edited by The chapter concludes with a clarion call for "policies and actions that challenge socio-spatial injustice and the lack of democracy and accountability, both at home and in EU institutions". [Extracted from the article]

Territorial cohesion in rural Europe: the relational turn in rural development: edited by Andrew K. Copus and Philomena de Lima, Abingdon, Routledge, 2018, 254 pp., £36.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-138-36385-4; £18.50 (eBook), ISBN 9780203705001 Territorial cohesion in rural Europe: the relational turn in rural development, edited by Following this, chapters three and four investigate the evolution of European rural development policy and analyse its link with the block's more prominent Cohesion Policy. The book's Epilogue in chapter twelve concludes by detailing the principles that ought to underpin a new rural development policy, as grasped through the relational perspective employed throughout the chapters. [Extracted from the article]

For China scholars, the book's conceptualization and analysis of campaigns also advance our understanding of this policy tool that is so commonly pursued in the country. Looney argues that China's campaigns were less successful than in Taiwan and South Korea. In I Mobilizing for Development i , Kristen Looney fills in this gap with a comparative study of Taiwan, South Korea and mainland China, highlighting the pivotal role the state plays in rural development. [Extracted from the article]

This article presents a review of the book "Pilot Project, India: The Story of Rural Development at Etawah, Uttar Pradesh," by Albert Mayer in collaboration with McKim Marriott and Richard Par.

In this book Joanna Tague traces Africa's decolonization from the perspective of Mozambicans displaced from Portuguese-ruled Mozambique and living in Tanzania during the 1960s and early 1970s. Even after 1967, when international refugee law was formally extended to Africa, there were significant differences between the approaches to refugees taken by African states and various humanitarian organizations working with the displaced. The term denoted displaced people affiliated with liberation movements, who were refugees according to Tanzanian law but were not available for refugee aid from UNHCR's perspective. [Extracted from the article]

There were instances such as the Green Revolution in India when the application of scale-neutral "High Yielding Variety" (HYV) seed technology demonstrated the significance of adopting technology and innovation in the agriculture sector. In the introduction, besides elaborating on the concept of agricultural innovation systems, the editors introduce the volume by providing a brief overview of each chapter. The thirteenth chapter, by Nirvikar Singh, unfolds Punjab's agricultural innovation challenges. [Extracted from the article]