Book Reviews

This page provides links to reviews of recently published books of interest to those working in private sector development - written by the DCED Secretariat and others.

• The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies can Take Off, by  Justin Yifu Lin, 2012, Princeton University Press, pp.322

  
  

  
  
  
  
• Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic: How Microlending Lost its Way and Betrayed the Poor, by Hugh Sinclair, Berret Koehler Publishers, USA, 2012, 259p.

• Why does Cargo Spend Weeks in Sub-Saharan African ports? Lessons from Six Countries, by Gaël Raballand,  Salim Refas, Monica Beuran, and Gösde Isik, The World Bank, 2012. (Summarised/ reviewed in September 2012)

• Poor Economics, by Abhjit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Public Affairs, New York, 2011. (Review by Development Economist Simon Maxwell on his own website, March 2012)





• Special Economic Zones in Africa: Comparing Performance and Learning from Global Experience, by Thomas Farole, The World Bank, 2011, 300p. (Reviewed in September 2011)

• Supply Chains in Export Agriculture, Competition, and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa, by Guido Porto, Nicolas Depetris Chauvin and Marcelo Olarreaga, The World Bank, 2011, 267p. (Reviewed in August 2011)

• Private Sector and Enterprise Development in the MENA Region. Fostering Growth in the Middle East and North Africa, by Lois Stevenson, Edward Elgar and IDRC, 361p. (Reviewed in May 2011)

• The Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey unto How the World's Poorest are Educating Themselves, by James Tooley, Cato Institute, Washington DC, 2009, 286 pages. (Reviewed in May 2011)
  

• The Case for Business in Developing Countries, Ann Bernstein, Viking, 2010, 412 pages. (Review by Barney Jopson in the Financial Times, February 2011)
  

• After the Conflict. Reconstruction and Development in the Aftermath of Conflict, edited by Sultan Barakat, I.B. Tauris, 2010, 344 pages. (Reviewed in February 2011)
  

• The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index, by Zoltán J. Acs and Laszló Szerb, Edward Elgar, 2011, 349 pages. (Reviewed in January 2011)
  

• Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, edited by Wim Naudé, Palgrave Macmillan in association with the United Nations University – World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), 2011, 373 pages.(Reviewed in January 2011)

• The Aid Trap, by R. Glenn Hubbard and William Duggan, Columbia Business School Publishing, 2009, 198 pages.(Reviewed in September 2010)