COMECON Data 1990

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Main Indicators and Population

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I. Production: Sources and Distribution

Abstract

Introductory remark: The system of ownership in the CMEA countries distinguished three basic types of property, viz. state ownership, cooperative property and private property. The latter has been of minor importance in the CMEA economies {with one notable exception: agriculture in Poland). There are numerous restrictive footnotes in the tables, e.g. ‘state industry’, indicating that state-owned enterprises only are covered; ‘socialist sector’, covering state and cooperative enterprises, etc. All three kinds of property are included if not otherwise stated.

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II. Consumption and the Standard of Living

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III. Foreign Trade and Debt

Abstract

Distinguishing characteristics of the CMEA countries’ foreign trade statistics: In their foreign trade statistics all CMEA countries report according to the extended principle of General Trade. Beside special trade this encompasses re-exports, Including goods purchased and re-aold abroad without the actual goods having entered the CMEA country concerned at all (transit trade).

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IV. Domestic Finance

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V. Energy

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