China's state planning commission last week issued rules banning companies whose debt exceeded 90% of assets from issuing bonds.

WSJ: Faith in Bailouts Spurs China

The mayor attributes part of the area's success to cooperation between his office, the Biloxi City Council, the city's Planning Commission, state and U.S. lawmakers and his close relationship with Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour.

CNN: Tale of two cities: Biloxi and New Orleans

It seems as if India's influential Planning Commission realised this when it warned that the poor state of the country's economy was being forgotten amid the political crisis being faced by the United Front government.

BBC: South Asia: Rupee down

The American Planning Association's Hawaii chapter gripes that the state's land-use commission spends too much time on individual projects rather than setting broad plans.

ECONOMIST: Planning for change in America's most expensive state