Planning for the year 2000

Abstract

In September 1975 the Planning Advisory Division of the World Bank published an updated list of National Develop­ment Plans. This list included the plans of some 88 sovereign nations and of a few overseas territories. An analysis of this publication shows that in 1975 only a handful of countries had development plans which extend as far as 1980 while only one country, South Korea, went beyond the present decade, and then only to 1981. I mention this to indicate how loath governments are, and also how difficult it is, to make official, concrete planning proposals beyond the short-term.