Reforma w handlu zagranicznym 1982-1986. Próba oceny

Abstract

Replacement of effectiveness growth as a goal of the reform in foreign trade by maximization of hard currency revenues made it necessary to effect corresponding changes in applied instruments. As a result, there were eliminated effectiveness-promoting solutions envisaged by the reform concept, which were replaced by the para-command system sometimes departing quite significantly from provisions contained in the main legal acts concerning the reform'. And although these departures were to be in force only in the transition period, their application is prolonged in practice, which hampers implementation of the strategy and undermines faith in an irreversible character of the reform. Deformation of the currency exchange rate-price mechanism had particularly farreaching consequences. Without basing this mechanism on rules contained in the concept of the reform, its further development is an illusion.