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fn the second half of the seventies, the volume of the exports of the CMEA countries to the OECD countries still rose in the average by an annual 6 percent, and their imports by 7 percent, but in the average of the years 1980-83 the volume of their exuorts stagnated and that of their imports rose by but 2,2 percent,x/ In value, the imports of the CMEA countries fell between 1981 and 1984 by an ave. [...] the limits.to the social-economic absorption of technical progress, th~ deteriosation of the natural environment and bf the mental nygienic condi·tion of the national societies, One of the historic trends of the third quarter of our century was characterized by the increase of state intervention in the economy, the continu·ous strengthening of the role of governments, and consequently the rising p. [...] • b/ The economic policy environment of the E1ystem of international relations is influenced considerably by the circunstance that - different from the sphere of the domestic economy - the consequences of the external economic imbalance, of the loss of dynamic and income :further strengthen in most countries the ext~rnal economic presence of the state, the interweaving of the economic and politica. [...] At the same time, the international compulsions of restructuring and adjustment, the sharpening of market comp~tition, the strategic revaluation of technologies, the spillover into the civilian sectors of the technical achievements of armaments· of a growing volume, enhance the oace of technical development and its role in growth • • In the eight.ies the most important front of technical developme. [...] The most vigorous change which occurred in the world economic conditions of the period of 1972-81, and in the wotld economic situation of the different countries and sectors, was linked to the revaluation of the natural resources, The decisive world economic challenge of the eighties·and of the nineties,the'fundamental driving force of the international redistribution of income between the countri.