Council For Mutual Economic Aid Research Articles

A Comprehensive Program of Socialist Economic Integration and the International Investment Bank

The year 1974 was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Council of Mutual Economic Aid. The jubilee Twenty-Eighth Session of COMECON, held in June in the capital of the Bulgarian People's Republic, was dedicated to this momentous date. At this forum the Soviet Union was represented by a delegation headed by A. N. Kosygin, a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU and chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers.

Prospective Forms of Collaboration of Comecon Member Nations

The 25 years of activity of the Council of Mutual Economic Aid - the organization for the economic and scientific-technical cooperation of socialist countries - is a vivid example of the effective use of the advantages of the socialist economic system on an international scale. It was specifically with the formation of COMECON that participating nations began systematically developing multilateral reciprocal cooperation on a planned basis in economics, science, and technology, side by side with bilateral relations. The activity of COMECON promotes the general progress of the socialist community and the highly dynamic development of the national economies of the countries comprising it. In the last three years alone, industrial production in COMECON countries increased by 24%, whereas in the developed capitalist countries it increased only by approximately 15-16%. In 1973 the national income of COMECON member nations increased 5.7 times compared with 1950, while the volume of industrial production increased 8.4 times. During the same period industrial production in the developed capitalist countries increased 3 times, while national income increased 2.8 times.

Integration Measures: A Component Part of National Economic and Branch Plans

The Council of Mutual Economic Aid is observing its twenty-fifth anniversary. During this historically relatively brief period it has grown and strengthened as the organization of collective cooperation of socialist countries. Drawing on the advantages of the socialist system and on collaboration and mutual aid, the countries in the community have achieved high rates of economic growth and have taken the lead in a number of directions of scientific and technical progress. Based on the socialist system of economy of each of the countries, the socialist principles of economic cooperation actively promote the attainment of a high rate of development by the national economies. Thus during this period the national income of COMECON countries rose more than 6 times, while the volume of industrial production increased 9.5 times. The successes that have been scored and the entire practical activity of the Council of Mutual Economic Aid are evidence of the high effectiveness of the joint actions of socialist count...

Refractories terminology in the member countries of the Council for Mutual Economic Aid (CMEA)

Refractories terminology in the member countries of the Council for Mutual Economic Aid (CMEA)

The legal statute of standard specimens common for the council of mutual economic aid (CEMA)

The legal statute of standard specimens common for the council of mutual economic aid (CEMA)

Geography, Environment, an Its Political and International Aspects

The environment is a part of the world which man is in interaction, i. e. which he uses and to which he adapts himself. A substantial part of that world is the geographical environment, one of the permanent and indispensable conditions of the development of human society and the material life of people. Besides natural historical and technical problems there are by no means less important problems of ethics, culture, internal and foreign policy, problems of peace and war, and, above all, problems falling into the sphere of historical materialism, whose solution reveals a different understanding and the class essence of the problems of environment in different social systems - in the worlds of socialism, capitalism, and developing countries. The set of problems concerning the environment is of a complex and system-like character; the phenomena and processes falling into the scientific and technical spheres and political activities mentioned above influence and percolate each other. A number of those relations, phenomena and processes are reflected in the landscape - the geographical sphere of the Earth - changing and tainting the ecology of the geographical landscape. The continual character of the geographical sphere, in which there occur most various forms and ways of material and energy exchange, can result in a deterioration of the conditions of the environment of a certain landscape, but this unfavourable influence can in turn be transferred to more or less distant regions or even across the boundaries of states. Geography - a system of sciences of geophysical, natural historical, socioeconomic and technical characters - as a sole science competent to study the landscape both as a complex and as a system, can, therefore, substantially contribute to the solution of problems of the protection of the landscape and of the environment. Besides, geography as a subject of the secondary school can guarantee the education af the young generation for the protection of environment in a complex and integrating way. The author further deals with scientific and technical, ecological and socio-political aspects of environment. He points out the advantages of the socialist political and economic systems in solving the problems of environment in contrast to the capitalist system, as in the socialist countries the creation and protection of the environment have become an indispensable assumption of the development of the socialist way of life and both can be guaranteed by the uniform scientific and technical policy of the state. Further the author deals in his paper with international aspects of environment, its international negotiations, and with certain measures for safeguerding a healthy environment on the global scale, which in the forms of resolutions and recommendations were accepted at the 27th plenary session of the U. N., as well as with the measures carried out in the international programme of the countries of the Council for Mutual Economic Aid.

Improving the Management of Branch Integration of Comecon Member Nations

In the two years that have elapsed since the Twenty-Fifth Session of COMECON, which adopted the Integrated Program for the Further Intensification and Improvement of Collaboration and the Development of the Socialist Economic Integration of COMECON Member Nations, the nations participating in the integration have performed ho little amount of important work. Organs of the Council of Mutual Economic Aid have prepared a number of materials on methods and norms, have found a solution to the many concrete problems of collaboration, and have made substantial recommendations. Work has commenced on making preparations for the coordination of national economic plans for 1976-1980, the first joint forecasts have been compiled, agreements and contracts have been concluded on specialization and cooperation of production, on joint planning, etc. In the realm of science and technology, agreements on collaboration were signed on 18 scientific and technical problems, and 35 coordinating centers were formed. Participatin...

Some water-management problems of member-nations of the Council of Mutual Economic Aid

Some water-management problems of member-nations of the Council of Mutual Economic Aid

Current state and perspectives of the development of works within the framework of the Council of Mutual Economic Aid in the area of medical measuring equipment and metrology

Current state and perspectives of the development of works within the framework of the Council of Mutual Economic Aid in the area of medical measuring equipment and metrology

Recommendations of the Council of Mutual Economic Aid for establishing uniformity of the measurement of pH values of aqueous solutions

Recommendations of the Council of Mutual Economic Aid for establishing uniformity of the measurement of pH values of aqueous solutions

Letter of welcome by N. Faddeev, secretary of the Council for Mutual Economic Aid

Letter of welcome by N. Faddeev, secretary of the Council for Mutual Economic Aid

Collaboration of member nations of the council of mutual economic aid in the manufacture of standard specimens of rocks and mineral raw materials

Collaboration of member nations of the council of mutual economic aid in the manufacture of standard specimens of rocks and mineral raw materials

"Council for Mutual Economic AID" - Soviet Revisionist Tool for Pushing Neo-Colonialism

"Council for Mutual Economic AID" - Soviet Revisionist Tool for Pushing Neo-Colonialism

Communique on the XVI Meeting of the Permanent Commission of Council for Mutual Economic Aid on Peaceful Use of Atomic Energy

Communique on the XVI Meeting of the Permanent Commission of Council for Mutual Economic Aid on Peaceful Use of Atomic Energy

11th session of team no. 1, Permanent Commission of the council for mutual economic aid [COMECON] on peaceful uses of atomic energy

11th session of team no. 1, Permanent Commission of the council for mutual economic aid [COMECON] on peaceful uses of atomic energy

Collaboration between member nations of the Council for Mutual Economic Aid (COMECON) in the chemical and petrochemical process machinery industry

Collaboration between member nations of the Council for Mutual Economic Aid (COMECON) in the chemical and petrochemical process machinery industry

The Criterion of Efficiency of Foreign Trade in Soviet-Type Economies

As has been remarked in an incisive Hungarian study, the original Soviet doctrine of foreign trade, carried to its logical conclusion, equated autarchy with socialism.' It is therefore hardly surprising that for years Soviet theory was signally unconcerned about criteria for policy choices involving foreign trade. However, since the last war, the creation around the U.S.S.R. of what is termed the socialist world market has brought such issues increasingly to the attention of Soviet economists. Moreover, the inclusion in this market of Central European countries, organically more dependent on foreign commerce and much more extrovert by nature,2 has further enhanced their importance. (A contributing factor has been the new appreciation, since the late 1950s, of the importance of trade with capitalist countries and the politically uncommitted underdeveloped areas.) This is indeed a field in the economics of socialism in which Soviet students and Soviet practice avowedly look today to Central Europe for theoretical enlightenment and empirical lessons. The most recent trend towards fuller integration of the economies associated within the Council for Mutual Economic Aid (C.M.E.A.) has made imperative the development of principles of comparative advantage within the group, for the socialist international division of labour . In Soviet-type economies the State's foreign trade monopoly forms, as it were, a clearing house for the imputation of foreign-currency expenditures and receipts in terms of domestic prices. Its agencies buy goods at home for export, and sell imported goods at domestic transfer prices. Differences between these prices and foreign prices, at the official rate of exchange, give rise to budgetary levies and subsidies. The resulting insulation of domestic price and cost relationships has been seen as a vital element in the framework for planned and rapid economic growth.3 It is only very recently, as the economy has approached maturity, that the independence of the rate of exchange in this sense has ceased to be treated in the Soviet Union itself as an unqualified virtue: comments on the 1960/61 currency reform seem to point to some change of attitude. It may be noted that in the second half of the 1950s a strong current in Polish economics. insDired

Unification of Contract Clauses in Trade between Member-Countries of the Council for Mutual Economic Aid

Unification of Contract Clauses in Trade between Member-Countries of the Council for Mutual Economic Aid