Based on a profound and comprehensive scientific analysis, the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the CPSU advanced the task of securing a substantial rise in the material and cultural living standard of the people as the main task of the five-year plan for the development of the USSR national economy in...

The economic reform provides evidence that enterprises and branches are successfully amassing experience for the rational solution of their production and financial tasks under the new conditions of management. In no small measure this also applies to the introduction of payments for productive...

The balance of the population's money incomes and expenditures is an important planning tool. It is used for establishing the necessary proportions between consumption and accumulation funds, for coordinating the growth of the population's money incomes with the increase in consumer goods and...

Equalizing the economic living conditions of the population, i.e., the totality of economic factors which determine the living standards, is a pattern in the building of communism. This leveling process begins with the proletarian revolution and ends with the transition to the higher stage of...

In large measure, the scale of the introduction of new equipment and its economic effectiveness depend on improvements in commodity-monetary relations and in the entire system of economic levers that affect technical progress. The Directives of the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the CPSU on the...

From the 2nd to the 5th of October of this year, the Third Inter-republic Scientific Conference of Institutions of Higher Education on the study of economic and social problems of developing countries was held in Leningrad. It was organized at the initiative of the chair of economics of modern...

While the Soviet Union possesses enormous natural fuel and energy resources, they are extremely unevenly distributed throughout the nation: more than 90% of them are located to the east or southeast of the Urals, of which 60% are located in Siberia. Less than 10% of these resources are located...

Perfecting price formation in the trade of Comecon [Council for Mutual Economic Assistance] members is an important and, at the same time, complex problem. The importance of this problem is determined by the growing significance of foreign trade as the international socialist division of labor...

The Comprehensive Program for the Further Intensification and Improvement of Cooperation and the Development of Socialist Economic Integration of COMECON Member Nations states that currency, financial, and credit relations should play an active part in the planned development and strengthening...

Fixed capital is a most important part of our country's national wealth. It is the material base of technical progress. As of January 1, 1969, the value of all fixed capital in the USSR was 638 billion rubles. The fixed capital of the USSR is growing at a rapid rate. In the last five years alone...