The present book is meant as a contribution to the study of this problem , as it is mainly devoted to the analysis of public sector patterns in countries belonging to the second and third categories as described above. In the author’s opinion , a frame of reference for concrete studies can be provided by two ‘pure’ models of the public sector, called respectively the ‘Indian ’ and the ‘Japanese’ patterns. Inpractice we find ourselves in the presence of composite and in termediary forms. The concep to rapublic sector is narrower than that of State capitalism. But the acceptance of a given public sector pattern broadly determine the character of State capitalism in the country considered. In that sense, the present study deals with some fundamental problems of State capitalism in underd eveloped countries.