governmental planning

Public policy development

Governmental planning is the process by which governments develop strategies and allocate resources for public needs—infrastructure, housing, economic development, environmental protection.

It ranges from local zoning decisions to national five-year plans.

The new highway was decades in governmental planning before construction began.

The term often appears in discussions of bureaucratic process or state intervention in markets.

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economic organization

governmental planningfree market

Commerce without state intervention

laissez-faire · market economy · capitalism · private enterprise · free enterprise

decision-making agency

governmental planningentrepreneurship

Creating and managing ventures

self-regulation · voluntary association · grassroots organization · civil society · personal choice

temporal approach

governmental planningspontaneous order

Pattern emerging without design

laissez-faire · self-organization · improvisation

Family

government, governmental, govern, governs, governed, governing, governor, governors, governance

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