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Improving Research on Former Soviet and Other Historically Planned Economies Summary of a Planning Meeting (1992) / Chapter Skim
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I. Background
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... The Council convened a meeting of specialists In November 1990 under He chairmanship of Lawrence Klein and published a report of the meeting in early 1991. Subsequent to that meeting and release of He report, the Central Intelligence Agency asked He NRC to undertake a follow-up project focused on improving Western research and understanding of the radical transformations occurring in the Soviet economy.
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... Because the transition process In these counties is unlikely to proceed along a straight path from a command economy to one that is characterized by free markets, the panel agreed that research should encompass a variety of possible paths of development and that relatively little investment should be made in efforts to quantify and measure how far any particular economy, region or sector had moved along a path that is presumed to be heading toward a particular kind of market economy. The panel stressed the fact that there are many possibilities for development inherent in the attempt to Dansform He socioeconomic bases of societies that differ on as many dimensions (for example, culture, religion, Westernization, and level of economic development)
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