| Abstract: | This paper discusses the use of planning techniques in assisting the attainment of sectoral plans for an economy. The paper examines the necessary threshold conditions which have to pertain in those sectors of the economy which consume, in this case steel, the product being planned through an exercise in demand forecasting. The second part of the paper broadly identifies the problems involved in attaining a specified steel production by utilizing techniques which would be of applicability to other sectors of the economy. |
