Full Description
This book discusses national development planning in the context of a globalized world economy. National economic development planning, the process of defining strategic economic objectives for a country and designing policies and institutional frameworks to attain them, was popular in many countries in the 1960s and 1970s. Over time it lost its appeal. More recently, with globalization accelerating and economic competition increasing, it is making a comeback in different countries under different forms. National planning in this new era is different than the earlier quantitative planning approaches. It employs different tools, such as strategic visions and action plans, revived forms of physical infrastructure planning, industrial policy, and cluster policy. Built on the research of international scholars with firsthand knowledge of the countries in question, this volume presents and evaluates current national planning strategies and policy worldwide. It will be of interest to both academicians who study and teach globalization and development as well as policy makers who may use it as a reference as they contemplate their own strategies.
Contents
Introduction.- Part I. Revisiting Concepts.-
Background Aspects of Classical Quantitative National Planning and Literature
Survey.- Part II. Economic Planning: Experience and Assessment.- Development
Planning in Japan.- Japan's Economic Growth and the Role of Government.- Development
Planning in Turkey: An Assessment.- Strategic Planning in South. Korea.- Strategic
Planning in Singapore.- Strategic Planning in South Africa.- Making
Planning Process Participatory in Emerging Economies: The Case of South Africa.-
Development Planning in Ireland.- Development
Planning in China.- Rethinking the Roles of Central Banks in National
Strategic Planning and Industrial Policy.- Part III. Linking National Planning
to Regions and Locations.- Planning for Regional Development: A General
Equilibrium Analysis for Turkey.- Part IV. Learning Systems, Innovation and
Industrial Policy.- Industrial Policy in Europe.- A new
look at Innovation Policy: The Dutch Experience.- Recent Industrial Policies in
Japan.- National Learning Systems as a National Planning Tool: A New Approach
to Planning Economic Development.
