After a look at the debates on development strategies since the early 1950s, the author examines Indian development strategy, development strategies of South Korea and Taiwan and shift in development strategies of Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Poverty alleviation strategies of India since...

The broad objective of the article is to review the development experience of Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and to indicate the type of development strategies that need to be evolved in the future. The author thinks that agricultural development, especially foodgrain production,...