Economic opinion and policy in Ceylon

The present study is a notable addition to that part of the Duke University Press Commonwealth Series which deals with the politico economic problems of underdeveloped countries. One of these works, Peter Bauer's The Economic Study of Underdeveloped Countries, dealt analytically and empirically with the nature of the problems that confront underdeveloped economies. A second, H. M. Robertson's South Africa: Economic and Political Aspects, dealt with, among other things, concrete economic problems of the sort that arise in a multiracial economy in which a large fraction of the population is still in a relatively backward state. A third series of lectures, yet to be delivered, will treat of economic problems en countered in South and Southeast Asia, above all in Malaya and adjacent territories. The present volume has to do, as the title suggests, with aspects of the relatively recent economic experience of Ceylon, like South Africa and Malaya, a member of the Common wealth. This volume is complemented by yet another, dealing in part with Ceylon, namely, Sir Ivor Jennings's Commonwealth Prob lems in Asia.