The USSR and the West as markets for primary products: stability, growth, and size.

Egon Neuberger

ResearchPublished 1963

An evaluation of Soviet claims that the Communist countries, by virtue of their central planning and rapid growth, represent much more attractive markets for primary-product exports from underdeveloped countries than do the allegedly stagnant and unstable economies of the West. It is found that the Soviet market not only falls short of the perfection claimed for it by the Soviets, but is, when compared to Western markets, neither large nor particularly stable. Soviet claims of rapid growth in primary-product imports are, however, fully confirmed by the data.

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Neuberger, Egon, The USSR and the West as markets for primary products: stability, growth, and size. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1963. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3341.html.
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