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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.
List of contents
Introduction.- Part I. Revisiting Concepts.-Background Aspects of Classical Quantitative National Planning and LiteratureSurvey.- Part II. Economic Planning: Experience and Assessment.- DevelopmentPlanning in Japan.- Japan's Economic Growth and the Role of Government.- DevelopmentPlanning in Turkey: An Assessment.- Strategic Planning in South. Korea.- StrategicPlanning in Singapore.- Strategic Planning in South Africa.- MakingPlanning Process Participatory in Emerging Economies: The Case of South Africa.-Development Planning in Ireland.- DevelopmentPlanning in China.- Rethinking the Roles of Central Banks in National Strategic Planning and Industrial Policy.- Part III. Linking National Planningto Regions and Locations.- Planning for Regional Development: A GeneralEquilibrium Analysis for Turkey.- Part IV. Learning Systems, Innovation andIndustrial Policy.- Industrial Policy in Europe.- A newlook at Innovation Policy: The Dutch Experience.- Recent Industrial Policies inJapan.- National Learning Systems as a National Planning Tool: A New Approachto Planning Economic Development.
Summary
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.
