Abstract
More than 1450 national development plans have been published in the countries of the Third World, but despite twenty-five years of research into the theory of development, approaches to social and economic progress remain characteristically unrealistic. All too frequently planned targets have not been achieved suggesting that even more research is required before effective development guidelines will be available to Third World development planners.
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Patman, C.R. (1978). Economic Planning: Paths to Development. In: Mountjoy, A.B. (eds) The Third World. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16030-3_4
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