A Critical Evaluation of Structure and Content of the Proposed Plan Bill for the Fifth Development Plan of Islamic Republic of Iran

Development Plan generally reflects simultaneously the twin quality of Purposefulness and Rationality in any socio economic order. Purposefulness imply general agreement of political system and rationality element is indicative of the society professionalconsensus. Thus a plan is the product of these two elements. Desirable functioning of planning system, however, depends upon recognition of five basic principles. These include: forward orientation, systemic approach, participation, coordination andcontinuity.At the same time every development plan is based on insights, sound theoretical foundation and a series of professional survey and research reaching conclusion about development, its meaning and content, having a good appraisal of world order and place and position of the country in this order, taking into account the country economic structure, its institutions and its historical processes. In this Paper, we try to evaluate the aim, objectives, content and the perspectives of the fifth development plan. A glimpse at content of the proposed plan would clearly show that it is weak, imprecise and lack consistency and continuity. We try in this paper to critically evaluate its structure, content and its theoretical and practical foundations.