Publisher's Synopsis
The eighteen original essays in this volume highlight how planning is not merely a bureaucratic process and can coexist with, and function in, an economy dominated by market forces. Among the issues discussed are: education, land reforms, food and agriculture, energy, public finance, the environment and regional and state-level planning. The contributors show how planning needs to be an open process and cannot be confined merely to stepping up growth rates and investment, but that it must work towards placing people at the centre of the development process.
