Handbook on Development Policy and Management

`. . . this is a book one would expect to find in all libraries and on all development studies reading lists.' -- John Hailey, Journal of International Development `. . . the Handbook is a unique reference tool on international development policy and management. Its format, both comprehensive in coverage and concise in content, will make it essential reading for the growing number of postgraduates studying development policy and management, as well as for public administration, foreign consultants and aid workers in low- and middle-income countries.' -- Andrew Nickson, Public Administration `This Handbook will surely prove to be an essential to the students, practitioners and others concerned with improvement of human condition in developing countries.' -- Pundarik Mukhopadhaya, The Singapore Economic Review `. . . this Handbook offers a significant remedy to the scarcity of material in this important area. . . It is certainly very near the top of this reviewer's list of recommended reading for students, researchers and practitioners concerned with development policy.' -- Michael Tribe, Development Policy Review `. . . the Handbook offers an excellent one volume survey of modern development policy and practice in poor countries.' -- Tony Jackson, The Journal of the Institution of Economic Development `This comprehensive collection contains an excellent introduction to all the major issues of development policy.' -- Frances Stewart, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, UK