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Our discussions should be taken as an attempt to summarize
key features and extract broad trends. Some countries’
experiences differed markedly, of course—the “exceptions”.
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The dividing line between the two subperiods is of course
arbitrary, and others choose different periods. ECA (2011),
for example, has four: 1960–1973 (development planning),
1973–1980 (transition), 1980–2000 (structural adjustment
programmes) and 2000–2007 (quasi-planning).