BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Voices of the Poor: Can Anyone Hear Us? by Deepa Narayan with Raj Patel, Kai Schafft, Anne Rademacher, and Sarah Koch‐Schulte, New York, Oxford University Press for the World Bank, 2000, xi + 343 pp. Voices of the Poor: Crying Out for Change by Deepa Narayan, Robert Chambers, Meera K. Shah, and Patti Petesch, New York, Oxford University Press for the World Bank, 2000, xvi + 314 pp. Voices of the Poor: From Many Lands edited by Deepa Narayan and Patti Petesch, New York, Oxford University Press, and Washington, D.C., World Bank, 2002, xvi + 509 pp. China's Retreat from Equality: Income Distribution and Economic Transition edited by Carl Riskin, Zhao Renwei, and Li Shi, Armonk, N.Y., M. E. Sharpe, 2001