A couple of decades ago I took a class in comparative politics which focused upon India, China, and Europe...which made for a pretty interesting mix and comparison. I am rereading one of my text books from that class: India, Government and Politics in a Developing Nation by Robert L. Hardgrave Jr. and Stanley A. Kochanek and this took me back to thinking about centralized planning.
I have bumped into the Five Year Plan concept in a number of interesting places academically and out in the real world. Engineering Planning Cycles,
GSA Contracts,
Iraq,
USSR , and of course
China and
India.
A quick wikipedia run gave the following for '
1966 in Afghanistan'.
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