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This article presents abstracts of several papers about economics published in the March 1965 issue of the South African Journal of Economics. In the article Some Methodological Aspects of South Africa's First Economic Development Programme, M. Van Den Berg outlined the methods used to calculate basic economic figures and presented the background to the choice of the numerical value of the incremental capital-output ratio for the purposes of calculating the basic figures. While the article Some Non-Economic Determinants of the Economic Status of Asians in Africa, dealt with persons of Indo-Pakistani and Goan descents who were spread throughout East, Central and Southern Africa. Two determinants were considered, the Asian's religious beliefs and the legal and social color bar against Asians.

Presents information related to several abstracts on economics published in the November 1962 issue of the journal 'The Review of Economics and Statistics.' U.S. demand for imports from 1948-58; Wage differentials and specification bias in estimates of relative labor prices; Soviet national income accounts for 1955; International comparison of size distributions of income with special reference to Asia.

Examines the differential relationship between labor force participation and fertility in the rural agricultural areas and metropolitan centers of various Asian countries. Role of urban lifestyle in fertility rate reduction.

The article discusses problems of economic growth in the poorer nations that became a major foreign policy concern of the wealthy and powerful nations of the world. The relative progress in the development of the two countries, India and China, is of great significance. There were strong parallels in their preplan structure and strong contrasts between China's totalitarian and India's democratic programs. Their performance relative to one another may influence the programs adopted by other, now less advanced, countries. It will certainly bear upon the United States and Soviet foreign policies. Furthermore, the record of the course of development in these two lands provides a unique opportunity for examining the process of development as such. Structural unemployment, underutilized resources, overurbanization, nonmonetized savings and investment flows-these are illustrative of the types of problems that must be understood and treated if there are to be steady output gains in most of today's underdeveloped areas.

The article focuses on communist China's economic growth. The purpose of this article is to throw light on communist China's asserted economic growth by comparing it with that of the Republic of China, Hong Kong, and Japan. This is not to minimize in any way the Indian development, which has been rapid during the Nineteen Fifties and which has given very encouraging evidence to Asia of what can be accomplished with free institutions. It is merely an attempt to put Communist China's claimed economic progress back into focus. It should be emphasized that this article does not intend to analyze how effective the Chinese communists have been in improving their military potential even though this appears to be a primary aim of their economic policy. Instead this report intends to outline an approach for analyzing the relative effectiveness of the Chinese communist system in promoting economic growth; it is this latter question that appears to be most hotly debated. It appears that many analysts are convinced that just because a regime can hold down consumption, theoretically it should, therefore, be promoting a large volume of sound investment and a huge growth potential.