indicative planning

…dirigisme took the form of indicative planning, which entailed government credit policies and subsidies, developing new technologies, and the regulation of employment overseen by a special planning commission, the Commissariat au Plan. The French government also embarked on ambitious projects, encouraging the formation of national champions in large industry groups,…

…planning, those done according to indicative planning (in which central planning of economic outcomes is indirectly implemented), and those governed by market forces. The second and third categories have grown at the expense of the first, but goods of national importance and almost all large-scale construction have remained under the…

…such as the establishment of indicative planning figures (IPFs, or funds a country could expect to receive over a five-year time frame) to assist with long-term development planning. Hoffman was a director of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., and of Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.