The book analyzes causes of rural poverty and constraints impeding agricultural productivity during the last four decades under three different regimes. It first examines the feudalistic system under Haile Selassie; then the command economic system of the DERG regime; and finally the current...

Transnational struggles for water and power -- Dams, democracy, and development in India -- India's Narmada projects : historical genesis and the transnational reform campaign -- The transnational campaign to save India's Narmada River -- Dams, democracy, and development in comparative...