SOVIET UNION EASTERN EUROPE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00865A000100120001-8
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• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 7, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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January 7, 1975
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This publication is prepared for regional specialists in the Washington com-
munity by the USSR - Eastern Europe Division, Office of Current Intel-
ligence, with occasional contributions from other offices within the
Directorate of Intelligence. Comments and queries are welcome. They should
be directed to the authors of the individual articles.
January 7, 1975
Poland Announces Economic
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Poland Announces Economic
Plan for 1975
The economic plan for the new year, recently
announced by Prime Minister Jaroszewicz, reflects
Warsaw's desire to continue the rapid momentum the
economy has maintained over the past four years.
Agricultural production is targeted to keep pace
with the 5.3 percent average annual growth achieved
since 1970. Special emphasis is placed on further
increases in livestock and fodder production and
on extending sugar beet acreage. Industrial pro-
duction is to increase by .11.4 percent compared
with the 1974 growth rate of 11.1 percent. The
most rapid.growth is planned for electrical engi-
neering, light industry, chemicals, woodworking,
and the extractive industries.
Jaroszewicz attributed the 5 percent increase
in the cost of living in 1974 to a poor fruit and
vegetable harvest and to selected price increases.
In fact, the increase was, more likely the result
of the high investment rate, rapid wage increases,
and substantial rises in import prices. This
year the government intends to reduce construction
starts and new investment, slow the growth rate of
wages, and enact further selective price and tax
increases. Jaroszewicz reaffirmed that the price
freeze on basic food items would continue through
1975.
The investment plan emphasizes completion of
existing projects. Despite the hard line on con-
struction starts, planned investment is neverthe-
less 20 percent above the 1974 level. New invest-
ment, however, will be allowed only in certain
specified areas such as housing, education, and
health-care facilities.
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Real wages are to increase by 5 percent--a de-
cline from the 7.2 percent average annual growth
of the past four years. Jaroszewicz stated that
the government will propose a one-year surtax on
earnings of high-income individuals but emphasized
that wage gains will not be eroded by tax or price
increases in 1975. (CONFIDENTIAL)
January 7, 1975
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