Neglecting Development Plans and Its Implications for Democracy
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2012-12
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Department of Sociology, Bayero University, Kano-Nigeria
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Theoretically, development plans of any sort involve deliberate efforts on the part of government to speed up the process of the social and economic development of a country. In some countries, such as the former Soviet Union with a socialist ideology, the development plan efforts were usually found to be rewarding, as the government was able to intervene directly and extensively in the lives of the people (Ogunjimi, 1997:97). Similarly, in other countries like the mixed advanced Western economies and many developing countries with a purely capitalist ideology, the economy is structured in such a way that though the interventionist role of the government is usually relatively small, there is always emphasis on the provison of a policy framework...
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Developmnt, Growth, Democracy, Governance, Plans, Colony