Manpower Problems in Economic Development - Integrating Manpower Planning With General Planning

What is planning? This is another question which jesting Pilate might have asked without waiting for an answer. For the purpose of this paper, planning will be taken to mean a way of arriving at policy decisions designed to achieve desired objectives. In the context of economic development, it generally denotes deliberate effort on the part of a government to accelerate the rate and influence the shape of economic growth. But not any and every action of a government which affects economic growth qualifies as planning. For this reason, Hagen has listed the elements which make up development planning."