Where planning is concerned, the international agencies should, the Group agreed, support innovation, decentralized planning, South-South experience-sharing, and be more transparent as to their own roles.

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Businessmen give America its highest ranking, 10th place, for decentralized planning, which means they think that state and local governments control most important decisions pertaining to their businesses, not the federal government.

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Summarizing those criteria, the policy to be applied required a comprehensive, integrated approach, where broad participation in the project starting right from the planning stage and decentralized strategies along with ecologic and economic feasibility have been the main guidelines.

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