ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the actual treatment of regional development in the three sub-periods of the first decade of Yugoslavia's development: the First Five-Year Plan, 1947-1952; the First Economic Decentralization, 1952-1957; and the Second Five-Year Plan, 1957-1962. It focuses on detailed arguments made by the Yugoslavs concerning the continuing biased regional allocation of resources for development is included before the examination of the Second Five-Year Plan. Because Yugoslavia as a whole was underdeveloped in 1947, the grand objective of the First Five-Year Plan was to transform the technologically backward agrarian country into an industrialized nation. During the period of the First Five-Year Plan, there was neither a concrete definition of less developed regions nor a plan especially suited to their development needs. By the end of the first period of postwar development, some factors besides the geopolitical were becoming increasingly important as determinants of Yugoslav regional development policies.
