This includes the pace and nature of capital accumulation, technological advancement, institutions that determine the sequencing of infrastmcture investment and its interaction with production capacities, linkages that emerge between sectors over time, and eventually, trade relations and international competitiveness (see Gomory and Baumol, 2000). This reiterates the need for planning, which is elaborated upon in the following subsection. However, from the late twentieth century, planning went into decline as a state tool for economic transformation, except in East Asian economies. Recently it has staged something of a comeback, as more developing countries are discovering the long-term costs of unplanned growth.