Parliament to assess 40-yr dev’t plan once every decade

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JAMES 10 years ago

Considering the bitter partisanship and unmitigated distrust between NDC abd NPP, this 40-year development plan is a non-starter and wll not be worth the paper written on when the next opposition party comes to power. Our con ...
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Considering the bitter partisanship and unmitigated distrust between NDC abd NPP, this 40-year development plan is a non-starter and wll not be worth the paper written on when the next opposition party comes to power. Our constitution is a failed document and needs to be revised to get rid of the winner-takes-all mandate.
Kpenyigba Kwesi 10 years ago

No way for 40 year development plan. Parliament should not and must not endorse this Plan. It is waste of Money and Time. Let's tackle the immediate problems now. Where are the results of BETTER GHANA and SENCHIE ACCORDS.

No way for 40 year development plan. Parliament should not and must not endorse this Plan. It is waste of Money and Time. Let's tackle the immediate problems now. Where are the results of BETTER GHANA and SENCHIE ACCORDS.
JAMES NARU 10 years ago

The Plan for the first 10 years should include the following:
1 Good Drinking Water for all villages and towns in Ghana
2 Good sanitation facilities; toilets, sewage disposal plants for all towns and villages

3 Health Ca ...
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The Plan for the first 10 years should include the following:
1 Good Drinking Water for all villages and towns in Ghana
2 Good sanitation facilities; toilets, sewage disposal plants for all towns and villages

3 Health Care: Availability of affordable health care facilities for every local District in Ghana

4 Free education for all Ghanaians up to Secondary School and additional 4 year training in trade school to learn the learn the following:trades:

machinist
welder/fabricator
electricians
automechanics
building construction
agriculture
etc, etc
These trade schools should be supported by evening classes

5. Wide scale development of Agriculture as Ghanaians are traditionally farmers

6 Development of the following Infrastructure:
Roads, Ports, Irrigation Schemes etc

7 Development of an appropriate Energy system- solar, wind, thermal , hydro etc. Exclude Nuclear power in the power mix as Ghana is not capable of doing this now.

8 Implement a system whereby no one is above the law and criminalise bribery, corruption, etc

9 Take over our country : Mines etc

10. Decentralise the Government. There is no reason why a person in Tamale would have to travel all the way to Accra to conduct business at the Ministries. accra is not the only town in Ghana. Start the development of Ghana from Mangoase, Ando Kofe, Ekruase , Lom na va, to the last place Accra Airport Residentila area.
Dessie 10 years ago

Decentralisation should be the top priority on the list:it make no sense putting everything in the shoulders of the central government:good points Sir.

Decentralisation should be the top priority on the list:it make no sense putting everything in the shoulders of the central government:good points Sir.
METUSALA 10 years ago

This is too detail for a national level plan.
Good Planning has an inherent hierarchy of levels of detail driven by logical thinking. Ideally, a national development plan will identify the national Development Mission, Visio ...
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This is too detail for a national level plan.
Good Planning has an inherent hierarchy of levels of detail driven by logical thinking. Ideally, a national development plan will identify the national Development Mission, Vision, and Goals/Priorities for for the nation as a whole. Therefore the purpose of the natplan is to answer the key questions of where do we want to be in 40 years and what are the strategic priority steps to get us there?

After the adoption of the natplan as a legally binding policy document, other lower level plans can follow.

The purpose of the lower level plans is to elaborate on the natplan by identifying the objectives, the strategic initiatives and the action plans of lower level administrative units that must be pursued to implement the natplan strategic priorities in order to achieve the natplan strategic goals. Examples of lower level plans may include plans prepared by specific departments, political parties, regions, cities and districts to implement the natplan. These lower level plans must be legitimised by the approved natplan.

The successful implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the natplan will depend will depend on how it is structured in terms of its linkages from natvision to district level action plans and how it legitimises lower level plans.

As far as the words "10 year Revision" are concerned, I think we want to say "4-year REVIEWS" i.e. at the end of every administration. You don't just revise something because it is time to revise it. Ideally, the review will start with an evaluation report to parliament. This will among other things identify what needs to be revised. Parliament may give the green light for the revisions to be done.

I am however worried about parliament being the approval body because then the plan will quickly become the plan of the political party that holds majority in parliament. I would prefer that the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the natplan should be managed by a planning board with equal representation from all stakeholders including the academia, political parties, civil service any special interest groups.
PRINZY@BONN-Germany 10 years ago

What Ghana needs is not that, Ghana need a federalism. A system that will ensure the District Parliament in each State or Region to a critical thinking to impliment a long term plan for what they need in their respective stat ...
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What Ghana needs is not that, Ghana need a federalism. A system that will ensure the District Parliament in each State or Region to a critical thinking to impliment a long term plan for what they need in their respective states. The ppl will have opportunity to elect their own major or regional minister with no political affiliation. Serious countries like Germany & all the Europeans practice this system and has helped them alot. Bcos it minimize corruption and ensure national development, Education, infrastructure, Healthcare and Job creation.
Pelicles 10 years ago

Look, we should adopt the federal system which will stop the nonsense we have been doing all these years.

Each region should be autonomous by electing its own officials. The people will know who to elect other the presiden ...
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Look, we should adopt the federal system which will stop the nonsense we have been doing all these years.

Each region should be autonomous by electing its own officials. The people will know who to elect other the president sending some rats as regional minister or government officials.

Look at the US. Each state is autonomous and there is sanity in whatever they do. This 40 year development national plan is dead on arrival. I am not a pessimist but the reality is there for all to see that it will not work.
Okunka 10 years ago

Our forefathers saw this and recommended federalism but they were accused of being matemeho. The 40 year development plan is the joke of the century. 40 years ago in 1975 nobody could have predicted that an illiterate farmer ...
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Our forefathers saw this and recommended federalism but they were accused of being matemeho. The 40 year development plan is the joke of the century. 40 years ago in 1975 nobody could have predicted that an illiterate farmer in Africa will be able to communicate with his son overseas from his farm in 2015.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

We see!

The 40-Year plan has morphed into 4 10-year plans!

10 Years at a Time!

That, we submit makes some sense.

But as for us, something like a 5-Year plan that is evaluated over 2-2-years each, and spanning 2 ...
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We see!

The 40-Year plan has morphed into 4 10-year plans!

10 Years at a Time!

That, we submit makes some sense.

But as for us, something like a 5-Year plan that is evaluated over 2-2-years each, and spanning 2 election cycles is to be preferred.

Further, Ghanaians probably will not take kindly hearing that an incentive for these politicians to revise the Constitution is an extension of the length of time they stay in office!
(WARNING: That would be a racket, long-planned)!

That said, the big deal WRT the Development Plan in 10-Year profiles is establishing in partnership, concrete, measurable, objectives for the agencies, all the way down to the district levels. And fixing the Constitution(s) before more talk for talk sake.

In all the Rawlings/Kuffour-Mills-Mahama plans, there is not a single objective for any element, in any of the plans. All the plans start and end with Goals, then operate absent-mindlessly as if Goals are the same as "Objectives".

So, looks like we are getting there!

Wonders!
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Ndebugri 10 years ago

Ghanaians should read what Prof. Opoku wrote about the 40-year development plan in the daily graphic of July 23 or so! It's a non starter! The NDPC is wasting our time and resources! In the end, they'll produce a vision state ...
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Ghanaians should read what Prof. Opoku wrote about the 40-year development plan in the daily graphic of July 23 or so! It's a non starter! The NDPC is wasting our time and resources! In the end, they'll produce a vision statement that'll end up on a shelve just like vision 2020!
Afetor 10 years ago

Ghana needs one but not the one developed by brainless people. Period. How can you convince me that a group of IDIOTS calling themselves NDC just three years ago had a BETTER GHANA PLAN. This plan turned a middle income count ...
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Ghana needs one but not the one developed by brainless people. Period. How can you convince me that a group of IDIOTS calling themselves NDC just three years ago had a BETTER GHANA PLAN. This plan turned a middle income country into HIPC. Suddenly the same group of ignoramus changed the BETTER GHANA agenda to TRANSFORMATIVE AGENDA. Within months the cedi has started falling again, the dumsor worsens, no roads seen and we are rather worse off. Now the same ignoramus wearing coat are going to develop a 40 year plan. They are developing it for whom to implement any way? This silly parliament will be replaced next year and a new sensible parliament pass a new law that will enable the development an all participatory plan. This is just NDC gimmick, at least we know now that they are talkertives who do nothing useful.
Justice 10 years ago

NDC is a funny party indeed. They assume that everybody is stupid in Ghana. Within a period of three years, you developed three national plans. BETTER GHANA, AKOSOMBO DECLARATION and TRANSFORMATIVE PLAN. Dumsor told us that b ...
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NDC is a funny party indeed. They assume that everybody is stupid in Ghana. Within a period of three years, you developed three national plans. BETTER GHANA, AKOSOMBO DECLARATION and TRANSFORMATIVE PLAN. Dumsor told us that because PV Obeng died the Akosombo declaration was not written. Now the same group of people want to develop a 40 year plan when they are leaving office in months. They are developing it for their mothers to implement. By the way Ghana does not need a forty year plan when the economy is in crisis. We rather need an EMERGENCY RECOVERY PLAN for three to five years. This will make the economy recover even before we think of a medium term plan let alone a 40 year plan. The EMERGENCY RECOVERY PLAN must be all inclusive and not only tekper, Wampah and Nii moi Thompson. As for the current parliament I believe Ghana will do better without them. No wonder NPP is replacing a lot of them, those that don't merit to be there any way. Fellow Ghanaians, please and please Nii moi thompson is misleading the whole country. We don't need to start another money wasting spree that we are developing a 40 year plan, you don't develop a development plan at a time you are in crisis, you recover first before doing that.
prof 10 years ago

Dr Tompson, Ghanaians have known you now. You critized any moves or ideas of Pres Kufuor because you were looking for job. Ghana does not need that one at this moment. Help the president to fix the economy if you are expert ...
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Dr Tompson, Ghanaians have known you now. You critized any moves or ideas of Pres Kufuor because you were looking for job. Ghana does not need that one at this moment. Help the president to fix the economy if you are expert economist
Alhassan! 10 years ago

As Prof. Appiah-Opoku stated in his article in the Daily Graphic of July 23, about 70% of ghana's current population will be deceased by the end of the plan period. Dr. Nii Moi Thompson should contact the Prof for advise if h ...
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As Prof. Appiah-Opoku stated in his article in the Daily Graphic of July 23, about 70% of ghana's current population will be deceased by the end of the plan period. Dr. Nii Moi Thompson should contact the Prof for advise if he's not yet done so and stop this fairy tail of 40-year plan! No planner can predict into 40 years. Who ever thought Post Offices were going to lose business to the Internet 40 years ago?
Sankofa 10 years ago

You have actually provided good arguments as to why there should be a national plan.

The plan is to provide purpose, focus and stability in our socio-economic development. The aim is to gain broad agreement across our land ...
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You have actually provided good arguments as to why there should be a national plan.

The plan is to provide purpose, focus and stability in our socio-economic development. The aim is to gain broad agreement across our land, so that the plan is implemented irrespective of who is in power.

The fact that we do not know what will happen in future is a good reason to plan properly now. We can consider different scenarios for the future and prepare countermeasures for contingencies.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.
The Chase 10 years ago

Four ten year revisions? Sounds like it's doomed to fail even from the word go! I would have thought Thomson would know all about continuous improvement with short timescales , so this plan seems very illogical

Four ten year revisions? Sounds like it's doomed to fail even from the word go! I would have thought Thomson would know all about continuous improvement with short timescales , so this plan seems very illogical
Sankofa 10 years ago

The plan would provide a framework within which gov't would work.

Reviewing it every 10 years to take account of developments in the previous ten-year period is reasonable. This would just mean tweaking the plan rather tha ...
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The plan would provide a framework within which gov't would work.

Reviewing it every 10 years to take account of developments in the previous ten-year period is reasonable. This would just mean tweaking the plan rather than making wholesale changes.
Aso 10 years ago

Author: Mrs Jones (77.20.211.174)
Date: 07-20-2015 00:24

IS THE PRESIDENT A FATHER CHRISTMAS , OR A SANTA CLAUS

This is the reason why Ghana should abolish the monopolitic one Party-Rule-System, or the abosulutism wh ...
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Author: Mrs Jones (77.20.211.174)
Date: 07-20-2015 00:24

IS THE PRESIDENT A FATHER CHRISTMAS , OR A SANTA CLAUS

This is the reason why Ghana should abolish the monopolitic one Party-Rule-System, or the abosulutism which is the majority System, or the "Winner-Takes-All" System and allow for competion of governance to do away with Foot Soldiers and unnecessary noice making by Party Supporters in the Air Waves to help curtail the useless violence and Tensions during election periods.

It is Not the President who Appoints in a COALlTION Government..

Political Parties who forms the COALlTION Partnership selects their own Ministers in accordance with the Proportion Representation in the COALlTION.

The appointed Ministers that are selected by their own Various political Parties are only sworn in into Office by either the President, or the Chief Justice, or the Speaker of Parliament.

In Germany or Europe where this System is best practised, the SPD forinstance select their own Materials of Personel , or nominated Ministers and present them for governance. So is the CDU , CSU or FDP, or The Greens, or the Liberal Democrats, or the Tories in the U.K. because the President has no power over somebody's own established private political Party.

Political Parties ARE Not State Institutions. They are Private.

You can also creat your own political Party today and Apply for accreditation.

Political Party then transform to become a "Judicial Person " and operate like a Corporation or a Company formed by a Group of people with Common Interest.

Inclussive Government is different from COALlTION Government.

If a COALlTION Partner is bullied on a policy Which it disagrees , it has an Option to pull out , or completely Break Away from the COALlTION , and if that Happens the bigger COALlTION Party would then be Short of the votes required to form a mandated government, and on that particular Note, the Government collapses thereupon with immediate Effect.

So in EFFECT, no President can bully himself through any smaller Party and impose himself on the people in a COALlTION Government.

There is Real Checks-And-Balances,

And This is One of the Means to Check the Ptesident from abusing his/her power in the Office.

And that is the Beauty of it.

Please know the difference!!

Inclussive Government on the other hand is Almost like a UNITY Government , or a "One- Party- Rule"!

What proves that there would be delays in Forming a Coalition Government with a full Set of Ministers if there are Laid down principles and guildelines?

Political Parties Don't mess around to be ready for an election Date , so what Shows That they will miss a Date Set up by law for swearing in their own nominated Ministers to be sworn in by the Chief Justice or the Speaker of Parliament into Office.

Do political Parties Miss the Date Set up by law to collect their election Nomination forms from the EC?

No!

You just give it a Chance and stop that Tantrums in defending the "absolute System of governance", or the "One-Party-Rule System " Which breeds only Chaos and dictatorship.

Now, Know why Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu is so admired by the P/ ndc, and were Even supporting him for his Parliamentary re - election at his Suame Constituency, because the dude is clueless and a Communist oriented Element , and this is what he propagate in politics.

Unlike ,Odoi Sykes or J .H Mensah,who disliked a Government Which deceives the people so cheaply with public goods like it is a Father Christmas , He , Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu make the Opposition Look Very Funny , idealess, and toothless.

All that he Stands for in Parliament as Opposition Leader is a National Development Plan!

A national Development Plan is another Means of creating, Looting and Sharing the scanty State resources Type of Communist Project Designed to fail , and then take the Money again into their private Accounts like the Hope City Project.

GHANA ON THE WRONG PATH OF ADVANCEMENT

Why are they struggling so much with this Failed State System.

Why don't they just make reforms and decentralize the System for efective Development to take place at the Same Time from all corners of the Country , Rather than Putting everything into the hands of the President and the Central Government only to make selective and descrimination Development with politics and polermics to make government and the President look like a " Father Christmas " for cheap popularity among the ignorant Elements in Society.

The five-year plans for the development of the national economy of the Soviet Union (USSR) (Russian:, pyatiletka, literally: "five year-er") were a series of nationwide "centralized" economic plans in the Soviet Union.

These Are Cut and Past copy Policy FROM Russia brought to Ghana by kwame nkruma.

The plans were developed by a state planning committee based on the theory of productive forces that was part of the general guidelines of the Communist Party for economic development. Fulfilling the plan became the watchword of Soviet bureaucracy . The same method of planning was also adopted by most other communist states, including the People's Republic of China. Nazi Germany Led by Adolf Hitler emulated the practice in its four-year plan designed to bring Germany to war-readiness.

Several five-year plans did not take up the full period of time assigned to them: some were successfully completed earlier than expected, while others failed and were abandoned.

Altogether, there were thirteen five-year plans. The initial five-year plans were created to serve in the rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union and thus placed a major focus on heavy industry. The first one was accepted in 1928, for the period from 1929 to 1933, and completed one year early. The last five-year plan was for the period from 1991 to 1995 and was not completed, since the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991.

BACKGROUND

Joseph Stalin inherited and upheld the New Economic Policy (NEP) from Vladimir Lenin. In 1921, Lenin had persuaded the 10th Party Congress to approve the NEP as a replacement for the War Communism that had been set up during the Russian Civil War. In War Communism, the state had assumed control of all means of production, exchange and communication. All land had been declared nationalized by the Decree on Land, finalized in the 1922 Land Code, which also set collectivization as the long-term goal. Although the peasants had been allowed to work the land they held with the production surplus to their needs being bought by the state (on the state's terms), the peasants cut production; whereupon food was requisitioned. Money gradually came to be replaced by barter and a system of coupons.

The NEP took over from the failed attempts of War Communism. During this time, the state had controlled all large enterprises (i.e. factories, mines, railways) as well as enterprises of medium size, but small private enterprises, employing fewer than 20 people were allowed. The requisitioning of farm produce was replaced by a tax system (a fixed proportion of the crop), and the peasants were free to sell their surplus (at a state-regulated price) - although they were encouraged to join state farms (Sovkhozes, set up on land expropriated from nobles after the 1917 revolution), in which they worked for a fixed wage like workers in a factory. Money came back into use, with new bank notes being issued and backed by gold.

The NEP had been Lenin's response to a crisis. In 1920, industrial production had been 13% and agricultural production 20% of the 1913 figures. Between February 21 and March 17, 1921, the sailors in Kronstadt had mutinied. In addition, the Russian Civil War, which had been the main reason for the introduction of War Communism, had virtually been won; and so controls could be relaxed.

In the 1920s, there was a great debate between Bukharin, Tomsky and Rykov on the one hand, and Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev on the other. The former group considered that the NEP provided sufficient state control of the economy and sufficiently rapid development, while the latter argued in favour of more rapid development and greater state control, taking the view, among other things, that profits should be shared among all people, and not just among a privileged few. In 1925, at the 14th Party Congress, Stalin, as he usually did in the early days, stayed in the background but sided with the Bukharin group. However, later, in 1927, he changed sides, supporting those in favour of a new course, with greater state control.

Each five-year plan dealt with all aspects of development: capital goods (those used to produce other goods, like factories and machinery), consumer goods (e.g. chairs, carpets, and irons), agriculture, transportation, communications, health, education, and welfare. However, the emphasis varied from plan to plan, although generally the emphasis was on power (electricity), capital goods, and agriculture. There were base and optimum targets. Efforts were made, especially in the third plan, to move industry eastward to make it safer from attack during World War II. Because meeting the goals of the five-year plans had top priority as a measure of progress toward a communist utopia, official lying about productivity became part of the economic system. The attempt to turn an illiterate peasant society into an advanced industrial economy in a single decade brought intense suffering, but hardship was tolerated because, as one worker put it, Soviet workers believed in the need for "constant struggle, struggle, and struggle" to achieve a Communist society. These five-year plans outlined programs for huge increases in the output of industrial goods. Stalin warned that without an end to economic backwardness "the advanced countries...will crush us."

First plan, 1928–1932

First five-year plan (Soviet Union)

During this period, Stalin pursued the policy of "collectivization" in agriculture to facilitate the process of rapid industrialization; this involved the creation of collective farms in which peasants worked cooperatively on the same land with the same equipment. This was intended to improve the efficiency of agriculture and eliminate the "kulak" class of landowners, which was deemed hostile to the Soviet regime, while improving the position of poor peasants. The disruption and repression associated with collectivization was a primary cause of the famine of 1932, which resulted in millions of deaths.

From 1928 to 1940, the number of Soviet workers in industry, construction, and transport grew from 4.6 million to 12.6 million and factory output soared. Stalin's first five-year plan helped make the USSR a leading industrial nation.

During this period, the first purges were initiated targeting many people working for Gosplan. These included Vladimir Bazarov, the 1931 Menshevik Trial (centred around Vladimir Groman).

Second plan, 1933–1937

Because of the successes made by the first plan, Stalin did not hesitate with going ahead with the second five-year plan in 1932, although the official start-date for the plan was 1933. The second five-year plan gave heavy industry top priority, putting the Soviet Union not far behind Germany as one of the major steel-producing countries of the world. Further improvements were made in communications, especially railways, which became faster and more reliable. As was the case with the other five-year plans, the second was not as successful, failing to reach the recommended production levels in such areas as the coal and oil industries. The second plan employed incentives as well as punishments and the targets were eased as a reward for the first plan being finished ahead of schedule in only four years. With the introduction of childcare, mothers were encouraged to work to aid in the plan's success. By 1937 the tolkachi emerged occupying a key position mediating between the enterprises and the commissariat.

Third plan, 1938–1941

The third five-year plan ran for only 3 years, up to 1941, when Germany invaded the Soviet Union during the Second World War. As war approached, more resources were put into developing armaments, tanks and weapons, as well as constructing additional military factories east of the Ural mountains.

The first two years of the third five-year plan proved to be even more of a disappointment in terms of proclaimed production goals. Still, a reported 12% to 13% rate of annual industrial growth was attained in the Soviet Union during the 1930s.. the plan had intended to focus on consumer goods.

Fourth and fifth plans, 1945–1955

Stalin in 1945 promised that the USSR would be the leading industrial power by 1960.

USSR at this stage had been devastated by the war. Officially, 98,000 collective farms had been ransacked and ruined, with the loss of 137,000 tractors, 49,000 combine harvesters, 7 million horses, 17 million cattle, 20 million pigs, 27 million sheep; 25% of all capital equipment had been destroyed in 35,000 plants and factories; 6 million buildings, including 40,000 hospitals, in 70,666 villages and 4,710 towns (40% urban housing) were destroyed, leaving 25 million homeless; about 40% of railway tracks had been destroyed; officially 7.5 million servicemen died, plus 6 million civilians, but perhaps 20 million in all died. In 1945, mining and metallurgy were at 40% of the 1940 levels, electric power was down to 52%, pig-iron 26% and steel 45%; food production was 60% of the 1940 level. After Poland, the USSR had been the hardest hit by the war. Reconstruction was impeded by a chronic labor shortage due to the enormous number of Soviet casualties in the war. Moreover, 1946 was the driest year since 1891, and the harvest was poor.

Sixth plan, 1956–1960

Another plan to improve industry was carried out in 1956 by Nikita Khrushchev, following Stalin's death in 1953. Some of Khrushchev's policies included nationalization, the Virgin Lands Campaign, creation of a minimum wage alongside overall wage reform and the production of consumer goods which raised the living standards of the Soviet people in return.

The USA and USSR were unable to agree on the terms of a US loan to aid reconstruction, and this was a contributing factor in the rapid escalation of the Cold War. However, the USSR did gain reparations from Germany, and made Eastern European countries make payments in return for the Soviets having liberated them from the Nazis. In 1949, the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon) was set up, linking the Eastern bloc countries economically. One-third of the fourth plan's capital expenditure was spent on Ukraine, which was important agriculturally and industrially, and which had been one of the areas most devastated by war.

Seventh plan, 1959–1965

Unlike other planning periods, it was a 7-year plan (Russian: , semiletka), approved by the 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1959. It was the reconsideration of the 6th pyatiletka. This period was marked with a significant economic growth of the Soviet Union.

Eighth plan, 1966–1970

Eighth Five-Year Plan (Soviet Union)

The eighth plan led to the amount of grain exported being doubled.

Ninth plan, 1971–1975

Ninth five-year plan (Soviet Union)

About 14.5 million tonnes of grain were imported by the USSR. Détente and improving relations between the Soviet Union and the United States allowed for more trade. The plans focus was primarily on increasing the amount of consumer goods in the economy so as to improve Soviet standards of living. While largely failing at that objective it managed to significantly improve Soviet computer technology.

Tenth plan, 1976–1981

Tenth five-year plan (Soviet Union)

Leonid Brezhnev declared the slogan "Plan of quality and efficiency" for this period.

Eleventh plan, 1981–1985

Eleventh five-year plan (Soviet Union)

During the eleventh five-year plan, the country imported some 42 million tons of grain annually, almost twice as much as during the tenth five-year plan and three times as much as during the ninth five-year plan (1971–1975). The bulk of this grain was sold by the West; in 1985, for example, 94 percent of Soviet grain imports were from the nonsocialist world, with the United States selling 14.1 million tons. However, total Soviet export to the West was always almost as high as import, for example, in 1984 total export to the West was 21.3 billion rubles, while total import was 19.6 billion rubles.

Twelfth plan, 1986–1990

Perestroika

The last, 12th plan started with the slogan of uskoreniye, the acceleration of economic development (quickly forgotten in favor of a more vague motto perestroika) ended among a profound economic crisis in virtually all areas of Soviet economy and drop in production.

The 1987 Law on State Enterprise and the follow-up decrees about khozraschyot and self-financing in various areas of the Soviet economy were aimed at the decentralization to overcome the problems of the planned economy.

Twelfth plan, 1986–1990

Perestroika

The last, 12th plan started with the slogan of uskoreniye, the acceleration of economic development (quickly forgotten in favor of a more vague motto perestroika) ended among a profound economic crisis in virtually all areas of Soviet economy and drop in production.

The 1987 Law on State Enterprise and the follow-up decrees about khozraschyot and self-financing in various areas of the Soviet economy were aimed at the decentralization to overcome the problems of the planned economy.

Thirteenth plan, 1991

This plan, which would have run until 1995, only lasted about one year due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Information technology

State planning of the economy required processing large amounts of statistical data. The Soviet State had nationalized the Odhner arithmometer factory in Saint Petersburg after the revolution. The state began renting tabulating equipment later on. By 1929, it was a very large user of statistical machines, on the scale of the US or Germany. The State Bank had tabulating machines in 14 branches. Other users included the Central Statistical Bureau, the Soviet Commissariat of Finance, Soviet Commissariat of Inspection, Soviet Commissariat of Foreign Trade, the Grain Trust, Soviet Railways, Russian Ford, Russian Buick, the Karkov tractor factory, and the Tula Armament Works. IBM also did a good deal of business with the Soviet State in the 1930s, including supplying punch cards to the Stalin Automobile Plant.

Honors

The minor planet 2122 Pyatiletka discovered in 1971 by Soviet astronomer Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova is named in honor of Five-Year Plans of the USSR.

Why don't Ghana just be bold and decentralize the System to solve the Problem of under- Development in the Country, rather than Wasting Time with this SYSTEM that has Failed in everywhere it has been Applied.
YIKRA 10 years ago

5-year term is better because 4 years is not sufficient and it is too shot.

It takes 4 years to complete major projects and 1 year to tie things before handing over

5-year term is better because 4 years is not sufficient and it is too shot.

It takes 4 years to complete major projects and 1 year to tie things before handing over

Efo Kwaku Canada 10 years ago

What Ghana need now is education and health care also having enough to eat which is basically human need and after planning long term projects, but as we are speaking the nation lack this basic needs to the citizens and you a ...
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What Ghana need now is education and health care also having enough to eat which is basically human need and after planning long term projects, but as we are speaking the nation lack this basic needs to the citizens and you are looking for long term planning what a waste of resources by travel allover the country, wisdom will tell you that is waste of time, can this commettee learn a little bit from the Western world?
President 10 years ago

Gabage plan which will rot on shelves.

Gabage plan which will rot on shelves.

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