Development Planning in India: Exploring an Alternative Approach - Rilegato

Kabra, Kamal Nayan

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ISBN 10: 0803993935 ISBN 13: 9780803993938

Casa editrice: Sage Pubns, 1997

Riassunto

A critical review of India's experience with development planning and its interface with the evolving mode of production and strategy of development, Development Planning in India raises a number of central methodological and institutional questions related to the planning process. Kamal Nayan Kabra dwells particularly on the chasm between planning and formulating and implementing on the one hand and the real stated objectives on the other. Discarding the general tendency to adopt a narrow, economistic approach, Kabra highlights the real-life possibilities and constraints facing a holistic, institutional approach to development planning. He avoids the pitfall of viewing market forces versus plan and centralization versus decentralization as irreconcilable opposites. Instead, the author provides practical suggestions for enriching the development process through effective plan implementation. This could result in a more meaningful multilevel framework to achieve people-centered and autocratic development with a human face. At a time when "plan wariness" seems to be setting in, Development Planning in India serves as a cogent reminder that planning remains crucial in developing countries such as India. At the same time, the content and meaning of the process need to be rethought and fresh impetus provided to overcome the constraints in order to make development planning more relevant to the needs of today. Professors, students, and practitioners in development planning and administration, policy studies, development studies, and economics will find Development Planning in India useful.

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Contenuti

Introduction
Development Planning
A Reappraisal
The Centralisation-Decentralisation Continuum
Plan versus Market Debate
Mode of Production in Post-Independence India
Impact of the Informal, the `Black' and the State Sectors
Planning and the Strategy of Development
Planning of Plan Implementation
Plan Implementation
Evolution and Evaluation of the Planners' Views
District Planning in India
India Planning and Liberalisation
An Integrated Social Science Approach to Planning in India
Epilogue

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Sage Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0803993935
• ISBN 13: 9780803993938
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 251
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile