National Institute Economic Review articles from November 1991

National Institute Economic Review archives from November 1991

Appraisal. (British economy in the face of European economic union)
November 1, 1991... The UK economy The recession in the UK is coming to an end, with a gradual recovery expected in the second half of the year. It now seems that stocks of goods and materials were run down sharply in the first half of the year. This is a...

The home economy. (Great Britain) (Chapter 1)
November 1, 1991... Although the data for the recent past are still somewhat patchy at the time of writing, a limited turnaround in the non-oil economy can be expected in the third quarter of the year, accompanied by a recovery in North Sea output. We expect oil...

The world economy. (Chapter 2)
November 1, 1991... Recent developments and short-term prospects Business cycle developments in the major seven economies have not been particularly well synchronised in the last two years. The US, Canada and the UK have been in recession, whilst Germany and Japan...

Is there a future for special employment measures in the 1990s?
November 1, 1991... Introduction Since unemployment began to rise again last year, the need for a response from government is once again being discussed. As the unemployment total rises toward 2 1/2 trillion and threatens to continue to rise next year, it...

Macroeconomic convergence in Europe.
November 1, 1991... Economic convergence within the EMS member states is a precondition for further moves to economic and monetary integration. The Delors Report has set out a path toward EMU in three stages, where transition to the next stage depends on some...

Social and economic cohesion among the regions of Europe in the 1990s.
November 1, 1991... With completion of the EC internal market in sight and economic and monetary union by the end of the decade looking probable, concern about social and economic disparities within the European Community has been growing. In the single market,...

Innovation and productivity in Easter Europe: an international comparison.
November 1, 1991... Introduction The aim of the study was to approach an assessment of the technological level of the economies in Eastern Europe, particularly in the newly-democratising countries-Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland--by means of...

The Soviet economic crisis.
November 1, 1991... The article examines the weaknesses and inefficiencies of the Soviet centralised planning system, and the means by which Gorbachev and his colleagues sought to reform it. Along with the objective difficulties in the way of 'marketisation' (lack...

Comment. (Soviet economic crisis; response ro Alec Nove, 138 National Institute Economic Review, 1991)
November 1, 1991... The paper by Professor Alec Nove illuminates, with great clarity, as he has done so many times in the past, several of the features of the Soviet economic crisis. The very difficult conceptual problems of what is a market, how does a market...

Transformation of the Soviet economy: economic reforms and structural crisis.
November 1, 1991... This article analyses the current problems of the Soviet economy's reform process. The process of transition to a market economy in the Soviet Union, where an extreme degree of monopoly prevails, has been characterised by declining production...