National Development Plan for the Period 1989-1993

Abstract

This Plan, the Sixth since the attainment of political independence comes at a critical turning point in our approach to the management of the national economy. It is the first among three through which the long-term development objectives and strategies for the structural adjustment process contained in Sessional Paper No.1 of 1986 on Economic Management for Renewed Growth will be implemented. Structurally, this plan has ten chapters. The first chapter reviews historical performance since independence and describes the economic base from which the latter chapters will be launched. The second chapter develops the plan theme relating it to major policy statements of the past, reflecting their continuity and consistency. The third chapter lays down the major growth targets, while the fourth highlights the domestic and international financial constraints likely yo be encountered in their attainment. The private sector will respond to the spatial characteristics of development as elaborated in Chapter five, in undertaking industrial, commercial and agricultural activity as anticipated in Chapters Six and Seven. The consequences of all such growth will be put to heavy demands on the natural resource systems of the nation hence, in Chapter Eight, the plan covers the strategies for environment protection. Since the theme, Participation for progress, is not merely a statement of simple economic growth, the Plan's final two chapters deal with "participation" by way of the many facets of employment creation and manpower planning while "progress" is examined in its welfare rather than the mere income context...