Encroachment of Ideas

Development Perspectives: Problems, Strategy and Policies by V V Bhatt; Pergamon Press, Oxford; pp 313, $ 50.
WHEN an economic theorist turns into a development banker and writes with equal facility in both his intellectual and professional areas, the reader's expectations are naturally high. The latest collection of essays written by V V Bhatt over the last three decades satisfies these expectations to a great extent. It is no criticism of the collection if the reader feels his appetite sharpened by what he gets and therefore feels impelled to raise a set of questions, to which a writer like Bhatt can give concrete answers.