This is a book whose time is overdue...It is a welcome addition to a burgeoning field of anthropological studies in which development plays a part, a book that will be widely read and appreciated... It is]sophisticated, relevant, sufficiently up to date and interesting in the way in which it framed the new forms that anthropological engagement with development might take. Andrea Cornwall, University of Sussex

Over the last two decades, anthropological studies have highlighted the problems of 'development' as a discursive regime, arguing that such initiatives are paradoxically used...