The Crisis of Indian Planning: Economic Planning in the 1960s.

THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF NATIONAL ECONOMIC PLANNING WAS fashionable in the 1960s at a time when the French model had become extremely popular in Western Europe. However, analyses of planning experience were then generally inhibited by a preoccupation with descriptions of the formal planning procedures rather than with any serious attempt to assess anything but the economic consequences of planning. (Andrew Shonfield's classic study of Modern Capitalism was a conspicuous exception to this criticism.) Attention was focused on plans as official documents rather than upon a set of planning practices that might be only remotely related to any formal statement of public policy. Planning was viewed too much from the forecasting end rather than the implementation end and the rationality of objectives became more of a preoccupation than the practical problems of translating them into reality. A normative model of efficient decision-making was all too often assumed to be readily transposable because of a wholly unrealistic notion of the ways in which organizations work.

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: The Crisis of Indian Planning: Economic Planning in the 1960s . Paul Streeten, Michael Lipton.

American Anthropologist ◽

10.1525/aa.1970.72.1.02a00480 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 72 (1) ◽

pp. 153-154

Author(s):

Alan R. Beals

Keyword(s):

Economic Planning ◽

The 1960S

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The Crisis of Indian Planning: Economic Planning in the 1960s

Southern Economic Journal ◽

10.2307/1056447 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 219

Author(s):

Ralph B. Price ◽

Paul Streeten ◽

Michael Lipton

Keyword(s):

Economic Planning ◽

The 1960S

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La programmazione regionale in Italia: una rassegna della letteratura economica

ARGOMENTI ◽

10.3280/arg2009-027002 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 31-62

Author(s):

Aurelio Bruzzo

Keyword(s):

Strategic Planning ◽

Metropolitan Areas ◽

Economic Planning ◽

Planning Model ◽

Regional Economic ◽

International Debate ◽

Scientific Debate ◽

The 1960S ◽

Government Level

- The paper contains (exposes) a brief overview on the scientific debate among Italian scholars since the 1960s on Regional Economic Planning, understood as socio-economic planning carried out by regional administrations. Aim of this work is to verify the Italian contribution to the wider international debate, developed in the same period and directed to advance the discipline both theoretically-methodologically and in its concrete implementation. The main conclusion reached is that Italian regionalists have induced during 1990s some Regions to adopt, at a higher government level and in a decidedly wider territorial context, the strategic planning model hitherto applied to urban and metropolitan areas in both Italy and abroad.

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Executive Politics

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192894045.013.12 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Jongkon Lee

Keyword(s):

Economic Planning ◽

Policy Decisions ◽

National Assembly ◽

The Public ◽

Executive Politics ◽

Park Chung Hee ◽

Bureaucratic Power ◽

1960S And 1970S ◽

The 1960S ◽

Historical Origins

This chapter explains the historical origins of strong bureaucratic power in South Korea and recent changes in which the concentration of bureaucratic power has weakened. In the 1960s and 1970s, economic growth was South Korea’s top priority, and economic policy agencies such as the Economic Planning Board (EPB) led the nation’s overall policy decisions under the protection of the powerful president, Park Chung-hee. As the economy grew, however, various social demands, such as welfare, labour rights, and environmental protection, were expressed by the public, and many institutions that could reflect these demands grew within the bureaucracy in the 1980s and 1990s. As a consequence, the influence of the EPB was relatively reduced. Since the 2000s, democratization has matured and the ability of the National Assembly to make policy decisions and keep the administration in check has been strengthened. As a result, the bureaucrats’ influence on policy further diminished.

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Spanish Economists Facing Indicative Planning in the 1960s

HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND POLICY ◽

10.3280/spe2009-001004 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 77-108

Author(s):

José Luis Ramos-Gorostiza ◽

Luis Pires-Jiménez

Keyword(s):

Development Planning ◽

Jel Classification ◽

Economic Planning ◽

Economic Thought ◽

History Of Economic Thought ◽

National Accounts ◽

Planning History ◽

New Instrument ◽

History Of ◽

The 1960S

- In this paper, the history of the adoption of the French indicative planning in Spain will be examined. Specific attention is given to the ideas of Higinio Paris at the end of the 1940s and to the ideas of Manuel de Torres in the 1950s, as well as to institutions like the Consejo de Economía Nacional or to the development of the first input-output tables and the first national accounts. Second, the support that the new instrument of economic policy in Spain had at the beginning of the 1960s will be analyzed, including the effective rhetoric that helped to implement it. Lastly, the guarded optimism with which Spanish economists from that time greeted the I Development Plan is shown, a plan which suffered for an increasingly disapproving attitude from the middle of the 1960s. Displaying a notable capacity of analysis, Spanish economists were able to anticipate a large part of the critical arguments that are today employed by economic historians in light of the development planning.JEL classification: B 20.Keywords: Economic planning; History of economic thought, Spain; Indicative planning.

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