Abstract:
Experiments in programming and Government intervention within the Communist bloc have given rise to a new thinking in economics which is concerned with planning and development. Leading theorists in this field have shown the need for, and advantages of, planned development, and consequently, planning authorities have been established in France, Norway, the Netherlands, Greece, and Great Britain.
In the European countries the purpose of these plans is generally two-fold: to foster national economic growth and to check the increasing concentration of population and industrial development around one or two focal points. New Zealand could well benefit from this type of planning as it has one of the lowest growth rates in productivity in the Western world, a high standard of living, a rapidly growing population, and an increasing concentration of population and development in the main cities The recent report of the Monetary and Economic Council, ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NEW ZEALAND, REPORT NO. 2, sets out the arguments for more integrated, longer-term planning of development in New Zealand.
