National Economic Assessment of the Activity of Branches in the Nonproductive Sphere

Abstract

Under present conditions the national economic assessment of the performance of branches in the nonproductive sphere takes on more and more importance. The share of these branches in the use of aggregate resources is gradually growing, and at the same time, their contribution to the development of the national economy and to the improvement of the well-being of the people is increasing. The subject of the present article is to elucidate methodological problems entailed in monetary assessment of the output of the service sphere and to define the general indices characterizing the rise of the economy as a whole and the conditions underlying the rise in the living standard. It also examines some questions in the dynamics and changes in the structure of output of nonproductive branches as a whole and of the service sphere. (>u>1>/u>)