Outlook Promising

nature of the growth process. Second, rate of growth is dependent not on per capita aid but on the export performance of the countries, i e, there is a closer relation between national income growth and exports than between national income and per capita aid (pp 126-127). Third, emphasis on family planning programmes is essential to the success of development programmes (p 173). Fourth, despite the increase in the proportion of literacy, the absolute number of illiterate people have been increasing (p 179).