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...through 1994 projected [TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Sources: PlanEcon; U.S. State Dept.}]CAPTION: ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN BELARUS ESTONIA GEORGIA KAZAKHSTAN KYRGYZSTAN LATVIA LITHUANIA MOLDOVA RUSSIA TAJIKISTAN TURKMENISTAN UKRAINE UZBEKISTAN
...TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Source: PlanEcon, U.N. High Commission for Refugees}]CAPTION: THE BALKANS: AN ETHNIC PATCHWORK...
...essential goods and services. The government prints more money to cover the gap, which in a free-market economy would increase inflation. But under the severe price controls of a command economy, the money has no place to go but under the mattress. Jan Vanous, research director of PlanEcon, a Washington-based consulting firm, estimates that by the end of 1989 the store of unspent, readily available money will exceed 460 billion rubles, at least a third of which would be spent immediately if goods were on hand...
...been increasing at a much lower rate. As a result, says Yuri Luzhkov, chairman of the state committee responsible for Moscow's food supply, "people are investing their new money in food" -- and, in the process, creating the current spate of product shortages. Jan Vanous, research director of PlanEcon, a Washington-based think tank, agrees that Soviet supply and demand has gone seriously out of kilter. "By allowing increased purchasing power and providing nothing more to spend it on, the authorities have created a mind- boggling situation," he says...
...legitimate interest in knowing the facts, since their own health could be affected." While it rejected Gorbachev's proposal for a summit meeting to discuss a ban on nuclear tests, the Reagan Administration stressed that the previously agreed-upon U.S.-Soviet summit remains "possible" this year. Meanwhile, PlanEcon, a Washington research group that studies the Soviet bloc, said the nuclear accident may cost the Soviet Union up to $4.3 billion in medical expenses and agricultural and other economic losses...