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P LANNING P ARADIGM Economic Planning and Industrial Policy For several reasons national economic planning is required in a developing country like India but it should account for challenges of rapid change due to technological advances and globalization opting for a middle way between the two extremes of central planning and over reliance on market signals — a framework for avoiding the corner solutions Raj Aggarwal Sullivan Professor of International Business and Finance, University of Akron 22 THE IIPM THINK TANK The debate on economic planning often ends up with people in two opposite corners — those that believe in government-led central economic planning in one corner versus those that believe in relying completely on market signals in the other opposite corner. The reality is that neither corner is a desirable place. Government economic planning has a diffi cult time picking winners and avoiding being hijacked by powerful interests while market signals have just as often proven to be unreliable as shown, for example, by the recent 2008-09 global fi nancial
crises. This note contends that the best form of economic planning avoids either extreme corner. Economic planning has been considered important in India at least ever since independence. We have had a number of fi ve year plans over the last sixty plus years. India has made remarkable progress in this period with especially rapid progress since the deregulatory moves of the early 1990s. Nevertheless, the role played by economic planning can be and is being vigorously debated in In- dia. Indeed, national industrial policy remains controversial globally. Even in corporations and other organizations, where strategic and operational planning is widely adopted, smart executives recognize the limitations of such exercises. While planning allows an or- I NTEGRATED PLANNING ganization to prepare its responses to events and environmental changes, it limits fl exibility and nimbleness – two qualities that become critical in environments that change rapidly. Business planning seems to work best in a static or slow moving environment. It seems the same may be true for nations. The year 1989 seems to have been a turning point for economic planning. That year saw the break-up of the Berlin Wall, a symbolic affi rmation of the fall of communism. 1 It was also the year the remarkable growth of the Japanese economy peaked. The communist countries and Japan were both known to have built their considerable economic successes with heavy reliance on national economic planning and industrial policy (Aggarwal, 1999a). After 1989 most of these centrally planned countries started converting their economies to rely much more on market signals to guide economic growth. Similarly, other countries that already had market-based economies started down a similar path with a strong focus on de-regulation. Interestingly, this global move towards less reliance on national economic planning and regulation lasted for about two decades until the developed country fi nancial crises of 2008-09. Over-reliance on free markets and too little regulation seems to have THE INDIA ECONOMY REVIEW 23
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