As I have written in other pieces, China has made a great progress in introducing market reforms to its central planning system that have contributed to its robust growth.

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On the other hand, the government has abolished the nursery-vouchers scheme and replaced it with a central-planning system run by councils.

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India also operated a system of central planning for the economy, in which firms required licenses to invest and develop.

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The only way we're going to get the rail infrastructure we need is to put the money in and then as I say also reassert that form of central coordination so that we can get some proper planning into the system.

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Planning for an extension of Manchester's tram system to Central Park, a 160-hectare scheme in east Manchester that will be Britain's first large-scale urban business park, was certainly complex.

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