1976-80 actual 3.8 4.5 1.7a 5.0a 4.5 4.2 8.4 1.0 0.4 1981 1982 2.7 2.1 This decline is mirrored by results of the Tenth Five-Year Plan (1976-80) in which plan targets for key indicators have not been achieved (see Table 2).
The falling rate of growth has been accompanied by a drastic decline in the growth of labour productivity (see Table 3).
Alcoholism There are a number of reasons for this fall, the most important being the discrepancy between the steady rise in incomes expectations masses and the still very low level of comsumption. There appears to be very little tangible benefit for hard work and so absenteeism and jobchanging commonplace alcoholism is a serious social problem.
Experiments, such Shchekino and Aksai, have been introduced to try and intensify usage of labour and raise productivity. These have normally entailed a certain degree of participation by the cessive bad West, particularly However, the last witnessed the machinery and spare parts.
of' the Losses in production. Soviet estimates the no need to import any.
So leadership price.
Agricultural production which is Soviet intimately bound up with light industry has not been aided by four sucharvests. The Soviet bureaucracy has been forced to import large quantities of grain from the for fodder. five years have virtual stagnation meat production which means, with populalol, a per capita decrease in meat consumption.
The bureaucratic character of the management of the collective and state tarns das meant low producuvi ty in comparison with the plots of land and livestock in private hands. Despite the high levels of investment to an adequate infrastructure has still not been developed: many roads are of poor quality and impassable in the Winter: there is a lack of storage facilities for fertiliser and produce agricultural resours Transport throughout the Soviet degree Union, and the railways in particular, is very inefficient which leads to enormous losses of goods and bottlenecks existence.
that, if the amount of grain lost in transit could be saved, there would be what does the new Soviet intend to do about this explosion sorry catalogue? Firstly, Andropor
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