The development of the national economy in conformity with a plan demands the precise coordination in time of all elements in the expanded reproduction process. To a considerable degree a fifteen-year period corresponds to the goals of long-range planning, which is called on to realize the...

The further improvement of the people's well-being is the basic objective of the party's economic strategy in the 1980s. Comrade L. I. Brezhnev stated in the Report of the Central Committee of the CPSU to the Twenty-sixth Party Congress: "The expansion of production and improvement of the...

The content and directions of social policy in socialist society are directly associated with the action of economic laws governing its development, especially with the action of the basic economic law according to which "the utotal/u well-being and free uall-around/u development of uall/u...

Savings are one of the most important components in the balance of the population's money incomes and expenditures. Effective methods of evaluating savings on a planned basis have not been developed to date. Guidelines on the elaboration of state plans for the economic and social development of...

The draft of the Guidelines for the Economic and Social Development of the USSR for 1986-1990 and the Period Ending in 2000 places particular emphasis on the need for the accelerated development of the Soviet economy's consumption sphere. "One of the most important tasks of all the nation's...

At the present stage of full-scale communist construction in the USSR and successful construction of socialism in the people's democracies, the economy is the main battlefield for communism and socialism. The rate of economic growth in the socialist countries is much higher than in the...

The service sphere is one of the rapidly growing sectors of the USSR national economy. In ever increasing measure the need is felt for the scientific substantiation of the goals of development of society associated with the further expansion of that sphere. After all, the more precisely are...

Work on the compilation of the long-range plan for the development of the national economy of the USSR for 1976-1990 requires the further improvement of the methodological principles of long-range planning, a more precise determination of the most important directions of growth of the Soviet...

Forecasting estimates of the volume and composition of the population's spending and consumption fall into two major categories. One of them is based on the processing of data on the dynamics of money incomes on the whole as well as of spending on goods and services. This category is used to...

The rapid growth of the national economy in the extended future will create a firm base for the resolution of the most important socioeconomic problems. In a speech to the voters in the Bauman Electoral District in Moscow on June 14, 1974, L. I. Brezhnev noted that in the next three five-year...