Part 1: The Institutional Framework of Planning 1. The General Planning Commissariat 2. Consultative Bodies 3. The Public Sector 4. The Regional Framework 5. Technical Bodies Part 2: Drafting the Plan 6. Planning Techniques 7. Stages of Elaboration 8. Final Consultations 9. The Vertical Planning Commissions 10. Parliament and the Plan 11. The Final Version of the Fourth Plan Part 3: Implementing The Plan 12. Implementing the Plan in the Public Sector 13. Regional and Urban Development: Executing the Plan 14. Implementing the Plan in the Private Non-Agricultural Sector 15. Agriculture Part 4: Towards the Fifth Plan 16. Work in Progress 17. New Problems in Implementing the Plan 18. The Plan and Opinion 19. General Conclusions. Appendices 1: The Government’s Directives 2: Speech to Parliament by the Commissaire General 3: List of the Planning Commissions and their Memberships.
Biography
John Hackett worked as an economist with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris.
Anne-Marie Hackett was Conseiller Référendaire at the French Cour des Comptes.
Original Review of Economic Planning in France:
‘Hackett and Hackett have accomplished a gargantuan task...and will go down in history as the people without whom this study could not have been made…’ Stanislaw Wellisz, Journal of Political Economy Vol 72, No. 5 (1964).
