Eastern Europe's Reliance on Western Technology
Abstract
This paper provides an assessment of East European reliance on high- technology imports from the West. In section II, a measure to provide a relative scale of reliance on Western imports for a sample of commodities is calculated for each of the six East European members of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) as well as for the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia over the period 1980-1984. Section III provides a measure of overall reliance for each country by aggregating over the group of commodities discussed. This measure is then compared with a similar measure for all machinery to determine if reliance on these commodities is greater than on the general category of machinery imports. The section discusses the relative importance of these commodities to Western countries as exports. Section IV presents a brief case study, the importation of machine tools by Hungary. This use of additional data sources provides a check on the relation between the import reliance measures and the actual flow of imports to Easter Europe. Section V offers the study's conclusions.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1989
- Accession Number
- ADA228417
Entities
People
- Steven W. Popper
Organizations
- RAND Corporation