Questions in the Methodology of National Economic Planning

The elaboration of a national economic plan should meet two basic requirements. First, the plan should guarantee the continuous growth of proportional balanced social production in keeping with the demands of a society that is moving toward communism; and, second, the plan should ensure increasing effectiveness in social production. These two planning principles determine the content of the plan and the process of plan formation. It should be emphasized that while we, for the most part, strike the proper balance in our plans, the task of increasing the effectiveness of social production is still not quite satisfactorily solved.