''The authors, economists Joy Dunkerley, Lincoln Gordon, and Elizabeth Cecelski, and physicist William Ramsay, collaborated on this book as part of the ongoing programme of studies at the Resources for the Future's Centre for Energy Policy Research. They survey the energy problems confrontingdeveloping countries and recommend general approaches -- energy strategies -- towards making the problems more manageable. Their conclusions and recommendations are presented in ways likely to be helpful to planners in these countries, and to those in industrial countries and international organizations concerned with the interwoven objectives of maitaining economic development and achieveig a successful long-term energy transition for the world as a whole. the book is a timely and useful contribution to a topic which will progressively increase in importance, being at the root of many significant economic issues -- energy pricing, balance of payments, economic development, international aid programmes, to mention only a few.'' -- The Economic Journal, March 1983.