Book reviewed in this article:Fahmi K. Bishay,Models for Spatial Agricultural Development Planning. Studies in Development and Planning, Volume 3, edited by the Centre for Development Planning, Netherlands School of EconomicsA. P. Ghosh et al,Development Planning in South‐East AsiaD. P. Ghai (ed), EconomicIndependence in AfricaThomas Balogh,The Economics of Poverty. Weidenfeld and NicolsonBaldev Raj Nayar,The Modernisation Imperative and Indian PlanningH. C. Bos, Martin Sanders, Carlo Secchi,Private Foreign Investment in Developing Countries. A Quantitative Study on the Evaluation of the Macro‐Economic EffectsA. Faludi,Planning TheoryA. Faludi,A Reader in Planning TheoryPartap C. Aggarwal,The Green Revolution and Rural LabourWendell Bell and Walter E. Freeman (eds),Ethnicity and Nation‐Building: Comparative, International and Historical PerspectivesCtaufurd D. W. Goodwin,The Image of Australia: British Perception of the Australian Economy from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth C