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Any society which aims at economic progress must strive for an increase in the rate of saving and investment, a widespread diffusion of technical skills among its people, and a framework of leadership that permits a reasonable degree of coherence in its efforts. These and many other aspects of national endeavour which are a necessary and integral part of the process of development cannot nevertheless be dignified to the status of a ‘strategy’. For strategy implies essentially a deliberate choice — a choice of the point and timing and manner of attack on the problem at hand.
Prepared in March 1963, and published in a volume in honour of Professor P. C. Mahalanobis on the occasion of his 70th birthday, entitled: ‘Essays in Econometrics and Planning’ (Calcutta: Pergamon Press, for the Statistical Publishing Society, June. 1964).
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Patel, I.G. (1986). The Strategy of Indian Planning. In: Essays in Economic Policy and Economic Growth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18358-6_8
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