The third Five-Year Plan (1938–42) emphasized the production of armaments. The fourth (1946–53) again stressed heavy industry and military buildup, angering the Western powers. In China the first Five-Year Plan (1953–57) stressed rapid industrial development, with Soviet assistance; it proved highly successful.
The tasks of the plan were completed ahead of schedule. The country's production potential has been fully restored and significantly increased. In 1950, compared with 1940, the gross industrial output increased by 73%, the fixed assets of production by 24%, and the national income by 64%.
The First Five Year Plan resulted in the easy access of staple foods bread, potatoes and cabbage across the Soviet Union. Severe drops in agriculture did however result in famine and inflation as agricultural output and livestock numbers in general dropped.
The 19th Congress of the CPSU (1952) defined the main task of the fifth five-year plan (1951–55) - the further advancement of all sectors of the national economy based on the predominant development of heavy industry, high rates of growth in the productivity of social labor, and improvement in the quality and range of ...
The First Five-Year Plan was declared a success by Stalin in 1932, about 10 months earlier than planned, having exceeded the production goals for heavy industry. In spite of these declarations of success, the plan failed to meet all the quotas and had an enormous human toll.
Third Five Year Plan was a failure due to India-China war followed by Indo-Pakistan. Third Five Year Plan (1961-66) aimed to make India's economy 'self-reliant' and 'self-generating'. It has faced a lot of political and economic crisis.
Fourth Five Year Plan:
This plan was a failure and achieved a growth rate of 3.3% only against the target of 5.7%. The liberation of Bangladesh and Influx of Bangladeshi refugees and successive failures of monsoon are the few problems that made this plan a failure.
The Sixth Five-Year Plan was a great success to the Indian economy. The target growth rate was 5.2% and the actual growth rate was 5.7%.
Five-Year Plans are plans that focused on the economic development of India. Out of the 12 Five-Year Plans that were implemented, seven failed to achieve their target. The reasons for this failure include shortage of resources and faulty implementation of plans.
The primary goal of the plan was to turn the Soviet Union from a mostly agricultural into an industrialized country. The secondary goal was collectivization of agriculture which was supposed to aid in industrialization. One of the reasons for the plan's launch in 1928 was the grain shortage of 1927-1928.
However, in the short term the plan was a failure, almost 7 million people died from famine, which was a direct consequence of the policies of rapid industrialisation and collectivisation. People were being forced to work in labour camps, a lot people died working in these camps.
They argue that although excessively brutal, Stalin's policies allowed Russia to develop a strong modern economy that sustained a successful war effort in 1941-1945 and propelled the Soviet Union into a dominant power after WWII.
The purposes of the Five-Year Plan, as set forth by responsible officials at Moscow, are the creation of a more adequate industrial development in an industrially backward country and the introduction of more efficient methods of agriculture, including large-scale, highly mechanized farming on coöperative lines.
The First Five Year Plan was a success in terms of industrial production. Coal outputs increased by 98% and the overall annual growth rate for the Chinese economy was 16%.
Officially, the first five-year plan for the industry was fulfilled to the extent of 93.7% in just four years and three months. The means of production in regards to heavy industry exceeded the quota, registering 103.4%. The light, or consumer goods, the industry reached up to 84.9% of its assigned quota.
12th Five Year Plan of the Government of India (2012–17) was India's last Five Year Plan.
After the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, Stalin himself declared in a 1941 broadcast that Germany waged war to exterminate the peoples of the USSR. Propaganda published in Pravda denounced all Germans as killers, bloodsuckers, and cannibals, and much play was made of atrocity claims.
Planning attempts fail when they are not integrated into the day-to-day operations of the organization. Also, strategic plans without an implementation strategy are unlikely to be used. Sometimes planning fails because there is poor understanding. about the problem at hand & the planning steps or planning concepts.
During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, China rolled out a slew of measures to address people's concerns: More than 60 million new urban jobs were created; over 50 million urban residents moved from unsuitable housing to new homes; nearly 30 million elderly people were provided with old-age care subsidies; and in the ...
The Third Five-Year Plan, begun in 1938, produced poorer results because of a sudden shift of emphasis to armaments production in response to the worsening international climate. All in all, however, the Soviet economy had become industrialized by the end of the 1930s.
The first five year plan was created in order to initiate rapid and large-scale industrialization across the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Having begun on October 1st, 1928, the plan was already in its second year when Harry Byers first set foot in the Soviet Union.
The First Five-Year Plan (1953-57) was an economic policy adopted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) after it seized control of China. The plan drew on models of economic development previously used in the Soviet Union. It set ambitious targets for infrastructure and production, particularly in heavy industries.
This poster from 1929 attacks eight groups that were frequently scapegoated (clockwise from top left): landlords, kulaks, journalists, capitalists, White Russians, Mensheviks, priests, and drunkards.
The Second Five-Year Plan – 1933-37
Forced collectivisation had also led to food shortages, rationing and even famine. Many workers changed jobs regularly and skilled workers were in short supply.
The Great Leap Forward was a five-year economic plan executed by Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party, begun in 1958 and abandoned in 1961. The goal was to modernize the country's agricultural sector using communist economic ideologies.