Abstract: | Description of the methods uses in preparing the Nigerian National Development Plan 1962-68: comment on the macro aggregate structure evolved from the national income estimates, tracing out how this global structure is connected to the sectors of the cononomy in turn and then to each investment project; The project and action programme side of the Plan as a way to illustrate the methods of planning (concentrated in detail on the Nigerian Ports Authority); Calculation of economic and financial costs and returns of the N.P.A. Tables. |