01543nam a22001817a 4500 27520 27520 9781108494625 338.954 PLA- Planning in the 20th century and beyond: India's planning commission and the NITI Aayog edited by Santosh Mehrotra, Sylvie Guichard New York: Cambridge, 2020 xvii, 333p. The Planning Commission played a crucial role in the type of development that India followed after independence. However, even though most economic analyses of India mention the five-year plans, the Planning Commission as an institution remains little studied. This is why this book proposes to look backward, examining the history of the idea of planning and the history and experience of planning in India. It also looks forward, trying to evaluate, beyond ideologies, which role the practice of planning has and should have in contemporary India. It then proposes that the NITI Aayog, the think tank founded on 1st January 2015 after the demise of the Planning Commission, could learn from this experience. This book addresses three leading questions: why plan economic development? How to plan? And what exactly can/should be planned? These questions are interrelated and the contributors of this volume, each with their own focus, propose elements of replies. Economic policy India Politics and government Economic development Mehrotra, Santosh editor Guichard, Sylvie editor ddc BK 0 0 0 0 NASSDOC NASSDOC 2022-03-15 7 726.35 0 338.954 PLA- 52192 2022-03-15 00:00:00 995.00 2022-03-15 BK