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This paper compares the structural changes that took place in the economies of seven socialist, centrally planned countries in East Europe with similar changes in market economies. The comparisons are for the period 1950 to 1970, the formative years of the socialist regimes, with references to 1940. The purpose of these comparisons is, first, to demonstrate that the patterns of structural changes of these two groups of countries are different and, second, to link those differences to specific aspects of the growth strategy of the socialist countries (SOC).
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Ofer, G. (1980). Industrial Structure, Urbanization, and Socialist Growth Strategy. In: Rosefielde, S. (eds) World Communism at the Crossroads. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7631-4_7
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