The Problem of Satisfying Consumer Demand

Abstract

Possibilities for the direct solution of the basic problem of economic development â the increasingly complete satisfaction of people's material and nonmaterial needs â are created under the conditions of developed socialist society. This is specifically the way in which the supreme goal of social production under socialism is formulated in Article 15 of the new Constitution of the USSR. The acceleration of production and the improvement of the quality of consumer goods become very important in this connection. The Twenty-fifth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union noted that this is one of the key problems of economic development of the USSR in the Tenth Five-Year Plan. These processes are based on the further development of the complex of branches that satisfy the population's material needs. Primary among these branches are light and food industry, agriculture, machine building, and trade.