The Development of the International Infrastructure of Comecon Countries

Abstract

In our view the international infrastructure can be defined as a system of productive branches (water resources used by several countries, international electric power transmission lines, international transport communications and communications lines) and of branches in the nonproductive sphere that are a necessary condition and base for the development and successful functioning of the international division of labor. (>u>1>/u>) The basic purpose of branches of the international infrastructure is to secure a high degree of economic effectiveness of all types of foreign economic relations. Branches belonging to the productive infrastructure have the mission of expanding foreign economic activity, and hence their development must be relatively more rapid than the growth of the latter.