Implications for Trade,Especially with the Developing Countries,of Structural Reforms in the Soviet Economy

Abstract

The present analysis of the implications of structural adjustment in the Soviet economy for the trade of the USSR, especially trade with the developing countries, represents the author's own vision of the substance and methods of implementation of the economic reform in the USSR, including ways of transition to a market economy. The problems involved are analyzed with regard to growing economic interdependence and the greater influence of international trade and economic interaction upon decision-making in the context of national reforming activity.

The author's views on how to reorient and readjust the foreign economic policies and management of the USSR (including policies vis-a-vis the developing countries) should be considered primarily against the background of Soviet efforts to ensure the USSR's integration into the world econo111y and international economic relations on the basis or extensive application of market mechanisms and incentives.