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- p. 4 …The volume contains a series of tables estimating the Soviet gross national
product and its components…
- p. 5 …quantified estimates of
the value of Soviet gross national product (GNP), its rate of growth, its…
- p. 6 …The Soviet indices of industrial and agricultural production are based
on gross output rather than value…
- p. 7 …For
example, data on the amount of waste included in the gross output data of
agricultural…
- p. 8 …The measure shown represents “net output,” or gross output less products used
by agriculture (seed and…
- p. 9 …compendium on the Soviet
eeonomV- “The Real Gross National Product of the U.S.S.R…
- p. 10 …Contributions of Rush V. Greenslade ________ _________________-________ ____ __ 1x
I. Gross National Product of the USSR, 1950—80.-______________________________ 3…
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Part I. GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT OF THE USSR, 1950-80
By…
- p. 14 …Turnover Taxes as a Share of Gross Output in Industry, 1972
6. Subsidies on Agricultural Products…
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Gross National Product of the Soviet Union in Established Prices, 39
by…
- p. 16 …of Value Added in Agriculture
B-8. Gross Output, Total Material Purchases, and Value Added in…
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Soviet Gross National Product in Established Priceskby End Use,
I if
I970
D-6.
I…
- p. 18 …An International Comparison, 1981
Gross National Product of the USSR: An International Comparison, 1982
Soviet Economic…
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Gross National Product
of the USSR, 1950-80
Introduction
This paper presents…
- p. 20 …Lee, “USSR Gross National Product in Established Prices,
1955-1975,” Jahrbuch der Wirtsc/la/I Osteuropas…
- p. 27 …GNP for the Soviet
Union and of gross domestic product (GDP) for
selected OECD countries.” For…
- p. 34 …Lee, “USSR Gross
National Product," p. 413; and Becker, 1969, p. 128.
difference between the growth…
- p. 35 …conducted on a net rather than a gross basis.
The enterprise is expected to be managed…
- p. 41 …the business sector
and are included in gross private business investment.
The second US account shows…
- p. 43 …On the other hand, the tax
amounts to 30 percent of the gross output of the…
- p. 44 …Turnover taxes were 30 and 56 percent of the gross
outputs of the sugar and other…
- p. 45 …The capital stock data used
in this study are gross of depreciation.
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Table 8 Billion Rubles
Gross National Product of the Soviet Union '
in…
- p. 48 …The row and column sums are
determined as each sector’s gross output less, respec-
tively…
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Table 10 Percent
1970 Soviet Gross National Product
by End Use
W…
- p. 52 …Therefore, value added is computed
as a residual—the difference between gross output
and current material…
- p. 53 …Therefore, if in-
dexes of gross output and current inputs are both available, the
gross output…
- p. 56 …Each subbranch index measures
the gross output of an I-O sector by summing the
physical…
- p. 57 …The material-input index is less desirable
than a double deflation or gross output index, but…
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Appendix A '
Soviet Gross National
Product, 1950-80
This appendix presents the…
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Gross national product 133.6 137.7 145.8…
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1.0
Gross national product 232.3 245.3 254.5…
- p. 61 …4 1.4 1.4 1.4
Gross national product 383.3 398.2 405.7…
- p. 62 …0 5.2 3.7 2.7___
Gross national product 5.5 5.9 5.0…
- p. 63 …8 7.6 5.8 4.0
Gross national product 3.1 5.9 5.2…
- p. 64 …5.1 4.; 2.9 7.7“
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Gross national product 5.6 3.8 -1.1…
- p. 65 …2 3.4 0.8 1 4
Gross national product 3.9 1.9 7.3…
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0.3
2.5
0.3
Gross national product 100.0 100.0 100.0…
- p. 67 …3 0.3 0.3 0.3
Gross national product 100.0 100.0 100.0…
- p. 68 …3 0.3 0.3 0.3
Gross national product 100.0 100.0 100.0…
- p. 69 …3 51.2 55.1 58.3 _
Gross national product 34.9 35.9 38.0…
- p. 71 …7 134.1 135.2 137.1
Gross national product 100.0 103.9 105.9…
- p. 72 …27.5 24.. ?6i5j_;
Gross national product 133.6 137.7 145.8 153.4 160…
- p. 73 …1 43.7 45.9 s9.7_‘
Gross national product 232.3 245.3 254.5…
- p. 75 …4.5 1.1 5.9 -3.1
Gross national product 5.5 5.9 5…
- p. 76 …0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Gross national product 3.1 5.9 5.2…
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Gross national product 5.6 3.8 -1.1…
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4.3
0.0 0.0
Gross national product 3.9 1.9 7.3…
- p. 79 …1 28.1 29.1 30.2
Gross national product 741.7 752.2 784.0…
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Gross national product 1,083.8 1,124.6…
- p. 81 …1 46.1 46.9 46.8
Gross national product 1,578.5 1,624.6…
- p. 82 …3.2
7*
1.4 1.3
Gross national product 3.7 4.0 3.5…
- p. 83 …1 14.0 13.8 13.5
Gross national product 100.0 100.0 100.0…
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Gross national product 100.0 100.0 100.0…
- p. 85 …4 9.6 8.1 6.9
Gross national product 100.0 100.0 100.0…
- p. 86 …31.7 65.3______s.9 g
Gross national product 34.9 35.9 38.0…
- p. 87 …9 98.2 103.1 89.1
Gross national product 60.6 64.0 66.4…
- p. 88 …8 110.4 93.7 81.8
Gross national product 100.0 103.9 105.9…
- p. 89 …Subtracting the deflated material pur-
chases from the deflated gross output produces value
added in constant…
- p. 90 …The
ratio of material inputs (gross output less NMP) to
gross output declined slowly in this…
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fluctuations in Soviet GNP are captured fairly accu-
rately in our data. The continued close relationship of
both measures after 1978 suggests that our estimates
of the growth rate of total GNP are accurate, and
that the apparent underestimate of outlays n.e.c. after
1978 noted above results from an overestimate of
other end-use components.
Comparisons With Other Western Estimates
A number of other estimates of Soviet GNP have
been compiled by Western scholars, although none is
as comprehensive or recent as those presented here.
Most of these estimates concern the 1950s or early
1960s. The tabulation below compares the average
annual rate of growth of total GNP derived in these
other Western studies with the corresponding value
derived in this study: 32
Period Other Western Studies
of Soviet GNP
Author Average Annual
Rate of Growth
(Percent)
1951-55 Bergson 7.6 5.5
1951-61 Moorsteen and 7.4 5.7
_ Powell
1951-65 Kaplan 6.3 5.5
1951-69 Cohn 5.5 5.3
1956-75 Lee 7.7 5.0
1959-64 Becker 5.8 4.8
Average Annual
Rate of Growth
Derived in This
Study (Percent)
It is readily apparent that in each case the growth rate
derived in this study is lower, and in some cases the
difference is considerable. The studies by Bergson,
Becker, and Lee estimate the growth of GNP as the
sum of end-use expenditures. About 60 percent of the
“ Bergson, 1961, p. 149; Moorsteen and Powell, Soviet Capital
Stock, pp. 623-624; Kaplan, Soviet Economic Growth, p. 14; Cohn,
“Growth of the Soviet Economy," p. 17; W. T. Lee, “USSR Gross
National Product," p. 413; and Becker, 1969, p. 128.
difference between the growth rates computed by
Becker and in this study arises from the lower growth
rate of consumption derived here (4.7 versus 3.5
percent per year). This difference in turn results
largely from Becker’s use of Soviet price indexes to
deflate the retail sales data as opposed to the use of
physical quantity consumption and production data in
this study. Similarly, most of the difference between
Bergson’s estimate and the one obtained here is the
much lower growth rate of consumption derived in
this study. Again, Bergson uses Soviet price indexes to
deflate the retail sales component of consumption.
Lee’s data are essentially in current prices and this
undoubtedly accounts for most of the difference be-
tween his results and those obtained here.
The studies by Moorsteen and Powell, Kaplan, and
Cohn all use a set of base-year, sector-of-origin
weights and a set of corresponding production indexes
in order to estimate the growth rate of GNP. The
growth rate obtained here is lower than that of
Moorsteen and Powell primarily because of different
weights. The 1950 implicit weights for industry (a
high-growth sector) in this study are lower and the
weights for agriculture and housing (low-growth sec-
tors) are higher. The Kaplan growth rate is higher
mainly because industry is assigned a higher weight
and the average growth rate of industry is a full
percentage point higher. The Cohn growth rate is
nearly the same as the one obtained here.
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