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^{Page 126 note 6} Such irregularities were, of course, dwarfed by those at the centre under Nkrumah and uncovered by subsequent investigating commissions. Cf. Werlin, Herbert H., ‘The Roots of Corruption – the Ghanaian enquiry’, in The Journal of Modern African Studies (Cambridge), x, 2, 07 1972, pp. 247–66.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

^{Page 127 note 1} No mention is made of decentralisation in ‘Process of Planning’, in Birmingham, Walter, Neustadt, I., and Omaboe, E. N. (eds.), A Study of Contemporary Ghana (London, 1966), Vol. I, pp. 458–9;Google Scholar nor is there a word about this in the One-Year Development Plan (Accra, 1970).Google Scholar

^{Page 127 note 2} Waterston, Albert, Practical Program of Planning for Ghana (Accra, 1966),Google Scholar and ‘Development Planning in Ghana: an account of progress made’, March 1967. Cf. also his Development Planning: lessons of experience (Baltimore, 1965);Google Scholar‘A Hard Look at Development Planning’, in Finance and Development (Washington), 06 1966, pp. 85–91;Google Scholar and ‘An Operational Approach to Development Planning’, ibid. December 1969, pp. 38–42. Regional planning is mentioned by Waterston in ‘Resolving the Three-Horned Planning Dilemma’, ibid. June 1972, p. 41, and ‘The Coming Surge in Regional Planning’, U.N. Planning Conference, Kiev, 10 1972.Google Scholar

^{Page 127 note 3} Afrifa, A. A., ‘A New Device for Decentralizing Development Planning in Ghana’, Accra, 04 1967.Google Scholar He later claimed – in the Daily Graphic (Accra), 9 12 1967 –Google Scholar that the greatest achievement of the N.L.C. had been to broaden the base of the country's economic planners.

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^{Page 128 note 1} Two-Year Development Plan. Annual Report on Plan Implementation (Accra, 1970), pp. 42–3.Google Scholar

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^{Page 129 note 1} ‘Decentralization of the Public Service’, Office of Government Machinery Circular No. 1/68, Accra, July ig68; also Nanjundian, H. N. and Marfo, S. A., ‘Proposed Regional Organisation’, O.G.M., Accra, 1968,Google Scholar and ‘Local Administration Bill’, in Ghana Gazette (Accra), 25 11 1970.Google Scholar

^{Page 129 note 2} U.N. Meeting of Experts on Administrative Aspects of National Development Planning (Paris, 1964),Google Scholar mimeographed. See also Economic Development in Selected Countries. Plans, Programs and Agencies (New York, 1950),Google Scholar and Planning for Economic Development (New York, 1965),Google Scholar both U.N. publications.

^{Page 129 note 3} Watson, Andrew and Dirlam, Joel, ‘The Impact of Underdevelopment on Economic Planning’, in Quarterly Journal of Economics (Cambridge, Mass.), 05 1965, p. 308.Google Scholar

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^{Page 132 note 1} Excessive centralisation is as wide-spread in South America as it is in Africa, yet that continent has been without colonial rule for about 150 years.

^{Page 132 note 2} See Stolper, W. F., Planning Without Facts (Cambridge, Mass., 1966).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

^{Page 133 note 1} Regional planning was included in The Proposals of the Constitutional Commission for a Constitution for Ghana (Accra, 1968), pp. 181–2.Google Scholar

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