The planning and execution of economic development : a nontechnical guide for policy makers and administrators / Louis J. Walinsky.

Foreword, v -- Acknowledgments, ix -- Part 1. Planning -- I. The price of economic development, 3 -- 2. Diverse and common elements in planning situations, 9 -- 3. Creating the organization for planning, 13 -- 4. Selecting development goals and strategies, 21 -- 5. Appraising development potentials, 29 -- 6. Setting the growth targets, 33 -- 7. Setting the resource and investment targets, 37 -- 8. Allocating resources and responsibility tor investment, 43 -- 9. Formulating economic policies, 51 -- 10. Testing and adopting the plan, 57 -- Part 2. Execution -- 11. The importance and scope of plan execution, 63 -- 12. Organizing for effective plan execution, 67 -- 13. The execution of projects, 73 -- 14. The execution of sector programs, 79 -- 15. The execution of economic policies, 83 -- 16. Execution by the private sector, 89 -- 17. Annual programming and plan modification, 97 -- 18. Execution of the financial plan, 103 -- 19. The supervision and coordination of plan execution, 113 -- 20. Some essentials of effective plan execution, 119 -- Part 3. Some practical approaches -- 21. Improving public administration, 127 -- 22. Improving public enterprise management, 133 -- 23. Creating industrial development institutions, 139 -- 24. Improving agricultural credit, 145 -- 25. Enacting investment legislation, 149 -- 26. Improving the social services, 155 -- . 27. Utilizing technical assistance, 161 -- 28. Utilizing foreign capital aid, 169 -- Appendixes -- 1. Developing and developed countries compared-six charts, 181 -- 2. Selected economic data for the less developed countries, 189 -- 3. Agencies which help finance foreign trade and investment- a chart, 201 -- 4. Summary of major United States government net foreign assistance, july 1, 1945, to december 31,1961, by area, type and country, 207 -- 5. Other free world' assistance to underdeveloped countries, 1956-1960, 213 -- 6. World bank loans, classified by purpose and area, as of june 30, 1962, 217 -- 7. Sino-soviet economic asssitance, through december 31, 1961- a chart, 221 -- 8. The appraisal of projects (as described by the world bank), 225 -- Selected references for further reading, 239 -- Index, 243.