Countries liberated from colonial dependence have embarked on the path of independent economic development in the face of the burgeoning scientific and technological revolution. They are accordingly confronted with a number of specific economic problems - including the problem of selecting...

In our nation, problems pertaining to the reproduction of labor power have always been at the center of attention of economicscience and the practice of socialist construction, These problems are at present acquiring especially great importance;and to a great extent the manner in which they...

The Council of Mutual Economic Aid is observing its twenty-fifth anniversary. During this historically relatively brief period it has grown and strengthened as the organization of collective cooperation of socialist countries. Drawing on the advantages of the socialist system and on...

In recent years, economists in socialist countries have been giving serious attention to the problem of making more complete use of the economic advantages of socialism and of increasing the effectiveness of socialist production. Naturally, in the process, certain outmoded theoretical principles...

Soviet planning has been developing for half a century. During this period, its organizational principles, methods, and forms have been continuously improved. They underwent further development in the process of elaborating the Ninth Five-Year Plan. During the compilation of this plan,...

The planned development of a socialist economy determines the reality of the task of "elaborating in the new five-year period the scientific principles underlying the protection and transformation of nature for the purpose of improving the environment surrounding man and making better use of...

The distribution of the population by sex and age is one of the most important demographic groupings. The study of theage and sex structure occupies an important place in demographicstatistics. In the first place, indices of the population'sage and sex structure play an important part in...

Total mechanization of all branches and their gradual conversion to an industrial footing together with the extensive application of the most progressive technical means and forms of organization of the production process are characteristic features of modern agriculture.

The broad application of the methods of mathematical economics and of electronic computing techniques is the most important condition for the further improvement of planning and for reducing the time needed for compiling a plan. Branch (departmental) computing centers and automated control...

The industrialization of agriculture leads to the significant expansion and strengthening of its production relations with industry. On this basis agricultural and industrial production is being integrated in a number of branches, and enterprises and associations of the agroindustrial type are...