Ghana’s proposed 40 year National Development Plan: challenges and prospects for planning education and practice
| dc.contributor.author | Inkoom, Daniel K.B. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-03T13:45:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-02-03T13:45:21Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Ghana is not new to development plans. The Guggisberg Plan (1919-1927) was indeed one of the first in Africa. There is however a big gap between plan preparation and implementation. Currently, the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) has proposed the development of a long-term national development framework to guide future development. Given the seemingly strong support for the formulation and implementation of a 40-year development plan, this paper seeks to answer two key questions: Does Ghana need such a long-term development plan, and secondly what does it mean for planning education and practice? The paper critically examines the conceptual-theoretical issues and throws up some reflections as to whether the proposed plan represents a real need or a business-as usual approach to development planning, planning education and practice in Ghana. | |
| dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-85-7785-551-1 | |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 639 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2537 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | en |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | All Rights Reserved | en |
| dc.source | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.title | Ghana’s proposed 40 year National Development Plan: challenges and prospects for planning education and practice | |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion |