Developing economies may adopt a strategy of unbalanced growth to rectify previous investment decisions, as put forward by economist Albert O. Hirschman.
In microbiology, the state of balanced-growth means "every extensive property of the growing system increases by the same factor over a time interval".
[1] It is ideal for performing experiments because all bacteria are at about the same state (as opposed to stationary phase, for example, where some cells are alive and others are dead).
According to Alak Ghosh, " Planning with balanced growth indicates that all sectors of the economy will expand in same proportion, so that consumption, investment and income will grow at the same rates.
According to W. A. Lewis," In development programmes, all sectors of economy should grow simultaneously so as to keep a proper balance between industry and agriculture and between production for home consumption and.