Our country's economy has entered a decade that will be characterized by improved efficiency of production based on its intensification. It must be said that the substance and pace of intensification processes have not been the same at different stages of the economy's development. For a long...

The report prepared under the aegis of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and a number of other international organizations and published in iVoprosy ekonomiki/i (1991, no. 3) contains a qualified and detailed analysis of the present crisis confronting the USSR's national economy. The high...

The year 1992 was a rather critical one from the standpoint of the socioeconomic development of Russia and other CIS states. Other members of the CIS were compelled (albeit to different degrees) to support the "shock therapy" begun by Russia and the single economic and ruble space connected with...

National income is one of the general indicators of the level of a nation's economic development. It reflects the results of society's economic activity to a much greater degree than many other indicators and is a yardstick of the effectiveness of social production. When related to the work...

Negative factors impeding innovation are now intensifying, above all, inflation, the insolvency of enterprises, the slump in production, the severance of economic ties, and so on. The "eating up" of resources has led to a lack of innovation in the national economy, a diffusion of obsolete...

One more year of iperestroika/iâthe next to last year of the Twelfth Five-Year Planâhas passed. It was a year rich in events and social conflicts, with the emergence of the concept "strike" which is new to our life, with increasing shortages, and with the growth of the shadow economy, but it...

A CPSU Central Committee conference on the acceleration of scientific-technical progress, which was held on June 11-12, 1985, posed the task of accelerating the nation's social and economic development. This does not merely mean raising the national economy's growth rates. As M. S. Gorbachev...

The importance of making economical use of society's material resources will grow with the scale of production, not only because of the absolute increase in the mass of raw materials, supplies, fuel, and fixed capital involved in the production process, but also because the growth of the social...