Planning in many LDCs has failed because detailed programs for the public sector have not been worked out and ?
Correct answer: B. excessive controls are used in the private sector
- A. governments depend primarily on their colonial masters
- B. excessive controls are used in the private sector
- C. the brain drains cost government substantially
- D. monopolies dominate in the agricultural sector
Explanation
Planning can fail when the public-sector program is incomplete and excessive controls discourage or distort private-sector activity. The other choices are not the standard paired explanation for this planning failure.
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