Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies
Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies
Preface
xi
Introduction 1
Chapters
Political
Factors in Development Planning
(a)
The Dominant Political Leadership: its Composition and Ideology 21
(b)
Evolution of Thinking on Economic Systems and Policies 24
(c)
The Five-Year Plan and Socio-Political Perspectives 30
(d)
Political Commitment to Economic Development and Planning 33
Planning
Machinery in Bangladesh
(a)
Genesis of the Planning Commission 40
(b)
The Organisation, Nature and Functions of the Planning Commission 41
(c)
The Planning Commission and the Political Leadership 46
(d)
The Planning Commission and the Bureaucracy 52
The
Planning Commission and the Administrative Ministries
(a)
Introduction 63
(b)
The Planning Commission and Policy Co-ordination 66
(c)
The Planning Commission and Project Preparation and Evaluation 70
(d)
Review of Economic Performance and Supervision of Projects 78
The
Planning Process: The Five-Year Plan
(a)
Introduction 82
(b)
Planning Models 83
(c)
The Five-Year Plan Model 85
(d)
The Use of a Model in Plan Formulation 88
(e)
Salient Features of the Five-Year Plan 97
(f)
The Process of Approval of the Five-Year Plan: the Role of Political
Leadership
and Public Opinion 99
5A.
The Annual Plan as an Instrument of Planning
(a)
Introduction 104
(b)
Public Sector Resource Budgeting 107
(c)
Foreign Exchange Budgeting 110
(d)
Food Budgeting 112
5B.
The Annual Plans and Implementation of the Five-Year Plan
(a)
Size and Composition of Annual Plans: Projections and Achievements 120
(b)
Annual Plans and Food Production 132
(c)
Annual Plans and Foreign Trade 140
(d)
Annual Plans and Price Changes 149
(e)
Annual Plans: Organisation and Management 154
(f)
Revision of the Five-Year Plan 170
Domestic
Resource Mobilisation
(a)
Introduction 180
(b)
Techniques of Resource Mobilisation 184
(i)
Taxation 185
(ii)
Subsidies 198
(iii)
Mobilisation of Surplus Labour 208
Industrial
Policies: Public versus Private Sector
(a)
Introduction 216
(b)
Nationalisation Measures 216
(c)
Limits to Private Investment 220
(d)
Private Foreign Investment 220
(e)
Management of Nationalised Industries 224
(f)
The Performance of Nationalised Industries and the Role of Pricing Policy 228
(g)
Incomes Policy 233
(h)
A Critique of Industrial Investment Policy 240
(i)
Pressures for Revision of Industrial Policy 244
(j)
Revision of Industrial Policy 248
Conclusions 256
Index 263
