Economist Manmohan Agarwal On the occasion of the first anniversary of his death on August 22, 1990, this paper discusses Sukhamoy Chakravarty's views on development As a development theorist, Chakravarty's work can be broadly divided into two categories. A characteristic of much of his earlier work is its concern with the implications of investment planning. Later,'particularly after his experience in the Planning Commission, he was much more concerned with formulating an appropriate theoretical framework for analysing the development process and devising an appropriate development strategy, particularly for a labour surplus economy such as India.
