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Title: | An approach to Nigeria's first perspective plan |
Author: | Ohiorhenuan, John F.E. |
Year: | 1989 |
Periodical: | The Nigerian Journal of Economic and Social Studies |
Volume: | 31 |
Issue: | 1-3 |
Pages: | 5-24 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | national plans food policy food |
Abstract: | A perspective plan is a series of objectives and methods in respect of a distant future expressed in the form of general guidelines and approved by competent authorities. The government of Nigeria has recently decided to prepare and put in place a fifteen to twenty-year perspective plan as part of its programme for the transition to civil rule. The present author proposes a thematic approach to Nigeria's first perspective plan, suggesting it should be constructed around a core theme, in casu food. After reviewing some basic theoretical and methodological issues, he examines the existing-desired state dialectic expressed in perspective planning in relation to Nigeria and elicits a vision of the Nigerian economy towards which perspective planning should strive. He then develops the theme of 'Food for All' by the end of the perspective plan period, examining its rationale, how it would work and why, and the kind of political arrangements conducive to implementing the programme. Bibliogr. |