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Why we still need economic planning

The book makes theoretical and empirical arguments to show why India still needs planning even more than before

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(Book Cover) Planning in the 20th Century and Beyond

Pradeep S Mehta
Planning in the 20th Century and Beyond
Editors: Santosh Mehrotra  and Sylvie Guichard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages:348
Price: Rs 950

This book both looks back and forward at the role of planning in the economic development of countries. It examines the history and experiences of planning in India but in a global context. In the light of this history, it also looks forward, trying to evaluate, beyond ideologies, what role the practice of planning has in contemporary India. It then proposes that the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, the think tank founded on January 1, 2015, after the demise of the Planning

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