The main socioeconomic objective of implementing the political and economic reforms is to use market methods of management to secure stable growth of the gross domestic product by increasing the economy's orientation toward better living conditions and quality of life. In the four years that...

The success of further economic and political reforms should be assessed first of all by [the degree to which] the production slump is overcome and the work of commodity producersâthe principal entity in a market economyâis improved. At the present stage it is one of the main economic tasks...

The Treaty on the Union of Russia and Belorussia should be viewed primarily from the standpoint of the socioeconomic development of both states. It is very important to objectively assess the economic benefits and advantages that the conclusion and fulfillment of the treaty between the sovereign...

Over the years of radical reforms, the conditions have still not been created for stable socioeconomic development. The systemic crisis that gripped all sectors of production and circulation of goods, as well as the financial and credit sphere, has not yet been surmounted. The chief reason for...

Recently the problem of profit has been widely discussed in the press and at scientific conferences. Many different proposals have been made to improve the distribution of profit, to raise its role in stimulating the better use of production assets and in increasing savings on production...

The realization of the majestic tasks mapped out by the 21st Congress of the CPSU in the sphere of the all-round development of the productive forces and the creation of the material and technical foundation of communism calls for a systematic reduction of production costs and increases in...

Three years have passed since the decision was taken, at the September (1965) Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU, to improve the management of industry and planning, and to intensify economic stimuli in industrial production. The period elapsed is comparatively brief, but significant...

In its decisions, the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the CPSU stressed the need for an integrated systems approach in the elaboration of the key problems in the development of a socialist economy.