Announcement of Monographs on Development Planning in Morocco and Yugoslavia Published on July 9, 1962

. ,i i.. .; I WORLD .INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR .RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT 1818 H STREET. N.W., WASHINGTON 25 1 D. C. TELEPHONE: EXECUTIVE3-6360 ~i1ank Press Release No. 62/23 SUBJECT: Monographs on Development For Release AM Newspapers Planning in Morocco and July 9, 1962 Yugoslavia Published Monographs on the organization and implementation of planning for economic cevelopment in Morocco and in Yugoslavia were published today by The Johns Hop- ki.ns Press. The monographs were written by Albert Waterston for the Economic r,e,velopment Institute, a staff college operated by the world Bank for senior o~ficials of the less developed countries. While there are many studies available on planning techniques, there are • few which deal with the organizational aspects of.planning, or with the policies and institutional arrangements for carrying out development pl.ans. Because of the lack of published material in these fields, many countries spend. undue amounts of time seeking solutions to problems which have already been encountered and dealt with elsewhere. The Economic Development Institute has for some years been assembling and usi.ng in its courses documentation on planning experience in developing countries and the monographs on planning in Morocco and Yugoslavia are the first case studies it has published on the subject. Mr. Waterston has been associated with the Bank for 15 years, serving at different times as economist, loan officer, member of the faculty of the Economic :vc,relopment Institute and presently as a member of the Bank's Development Ad- visory s~~ice • • "Planning in Morocco - Organization and Implementation," 73 pages, price $2. 50. "Planning in Yugoslavia - Organization and Implementation," 108 pages, price $3.00. Available from The Johns Hopkins Press, 1;3altimore 18, Maryland.  - 2 • ~ 1 ?lanning in Morocco - Organizatio~ and Implementation" Morocco is an unusually rewardi!'.lg case for the study of economic planning uecause of the institutional similarities between Morocco's planning as a F1rench Protectorate and as an independent state and because of the nature of the Moroccan economy. Although planning machinery was established earlier in other French territories, Morocco has probably had more experience in plann:i.n6 f'or economic development than any other territory that came under French in- fluence. Drawing on extensive material, as well as on personal observations made in Morocco, the author discusses plat.ming during the French Protectorate. This is :followed by a much more extensive examination of planning since independence, in particular the experience in implementing the curre11t five-year plan •. The institutional and procedural means employed are examined critically and the results evaluated. The study includes an extensive bibliography. "Planning in Yugoslavia - Organization and Implementation" • This study compares the results of centralized and decentralized planning in Yugoslavia. Although Yugoslavia is a Communist country, it has made a major break with orthodox ComQlUilist planning procedures. Until about 1950, Yugoslavia followed the orthodox Communist system of "administrative" or "centralized" planning. Thereafter, following the break with the Soviet bloc, Yugoslavia's planning developed unique features blending elements found in market and planned economies, as well as some found in neither. The last decade in Yugoslavia has been one of experimentation in which a spectacular reorientation of the economy from authoritarian control of enterprise to "workers' management of enterprise" has brought about progressive decentralization of economic decision-making. • I? ...... • - 3 - The monograph attempts to trace this evolution from the period of "E:1.dministrative planning" to the radicaJ_ cbanges wrought after 1950. sj_nce planning in Yugoslavia has evolved as an integral part of the governmental and economic systems of the country, the study of its planning machinery and operation necessarily includes a review of these systems. The results of both forms of planning are explored and the conclusion is drawn that the superiority of decentralized decision-making over centralized controls in achieving a viable economy has been clearly demonstrated by the Yugoslav experiencee The study is based on information obtained by the author in Yugoslavia, as well as on an examination of hundreds of official and un, official publications, many of which are listed in the bibliography . • •