A Comprehensive Plan for the Development of the Service Sector (Methodological Questions)

Abstract

Work on the compilation of the long-range plan for the development of the national economy of the USSR for 1976-1990 requires the further improvement of the methodological principles of long-range planning, a more precise determination of the most important directions of growth of the Soviet economy, and a comprehensive approach to the resolution of problems confronting Soviet society. Among the latter is the substantiation of the place of the whole service sector in the total aggregate of branches of the national economy, the elaboration of the systems approach to the determination of avenues for its growth, and the compilation of a comprehensive plan for the development of all branches and types of activity relating to this sector.