Adekeye, Deborah Shade2020-05-222020-05-222012-122276-7088http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3980Theoretically, 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...enDevelopmntGrowthDemocracyGovernancePlansColonyArticle