Soviet bloc economic integration : some suggested explanations for slow progress

Egon Neuberger

ResearchPublished 1963

An attempt to explain the relatively slow progress in economic integration within the Soviet Bloc. Despite the avowed Soviet Bloc goal of achieving economic integration, and despite the existence since 1949 of the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance (CEMA) as a mechanism for implementing this goal, the Bloc appears to have made less progress toward full economic integration than have the countries of Western Europe--notwithstanding the seemingly ideal preconditions that the governments share a common ideology and have complete control over their economies. Some major factors impeding successful economic integration within the Bloc are discussed.

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Neuberger, Egon, Soviet bloc economic integration : some suggested explanations for slow progress. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1963. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3629.html.
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