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The Resurgence of National Development Planning and the Challenge of Alignment

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posted on 2024-10-04, 13:37 authored by Tom Harrison
Recent years have witnessed a resurgence in the number of developing countries producing national development plans. This has led to an interest in how governments seek to implement their plans by aligning government policies, budgets and sectoral plans with their national development plans. The expectation is often for plans to bring about major changes in policies and budgets, but many national development plans are designed to play a more incremental role in signalling priorities and influencing thinking rather than bringing about specific policy changes. In doing so, they mirror the emphasis budgets place on narrative explanation alongside budgetary allocations. This paper uses the case of South Africa’s National Development Plan to look at how budgets and sectoral plans respond to signals from the plan and how they in turn reshape the role that the plan plays.

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Harrison, T. (2023) The Resurgence of National Development Planning and the Challenge of Alignment, ODI Working paper. London: ODI

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