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P LANNING P ARADIGM<br />
Economic Planning<br />
and Industrial Policy<br />
For several reasons national economic planning is required in a developing<br />
country like <strong>India</strong> but it should account for challenges of rapid change<br />
due to technological advances and globalization opting for a middle way<br />
between the two extremes of central planning and over reliance on market<br />
signals — a framework for avoiding the corner solutions<br />
Raj Aggarwal<br />
Sullivan Professor of International<br />
Business and Finance,<br />
University of Akron<br />
22 THE IIPM THINK TANK<br />
<strong>The</strong> debate on economic planning<br />
often ends up with people in two<br />
opposite corners — those that believe<br />
in government-led central<br />
economic planning in one corner versus those<br />
that believe in relying completely on market<br />
signals in the other opposite corner. <strong>The</strong> reality<br />
is that neither corner is a desirable place. Government<br />
economic planning has a diffi cult time<br />
picking winners and avoiding being hijacked by<br />
powerful interests while market signals have just<br />
as often proven to be unreliable as shown, for<br />
example, by the recent 2008-09 global fi nancial