International Economic Organizations and Their Role in the Collaboration of Comecon Countries

Abstract

Under the conditions of socialist economic integration, joint planning is the basic method of improving economic collaboration and intensifying the socialist division of labor. First and foremost, joint planning concerns the central planning organs, their highest organs of government branch economic administration in COMECON countries (ministries and agencies) in one or another form — economic organizations, industrial associations, and enterprises — and scientific-technical, trade, transport, and other cost-accounting and budget organizations. The functions of the organs of branch administration and of economic organizations are performed within the limits of the rights and competence assigned to them by the laws of their countries to fulfill that part of the direct foreign relations which expresses the exchange of production-technical experience and consultations on prospective development, etc.