The Machinery of planning : political, administrative and financial aspects

Abstract

Planning in the contemporary sense is a vast governmental operation with political, administrative and financial implications deriving from its overall objective, namely, the improvement of the economic and social conditions of the people of a country. These implications are as far-reaching as those involved in the political and constitutional changes preceding the independence of the newly independent countries of Africa and other parts of the world. Perhaps even more so. And since planning has become the vogue among many countries, especially the newly independent countries of Africa, it is important that considerable thought be given to the subject by countries on the threshold d of independence.