The management of resources according to a plan of economic or political development.
Example sentencesExamples
This paper deals with the problem of linking a planification level to a sensory motor level.
Some argue that it amounted to Socialism, others saw a clear line of development between Italian fascism and France's much more ‘civilised’ programme of planification.
Origin
1950s: from French planifier 'to plan' (see -fication).