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2. What was the primary goal of the 1974 Constitution?

  • Improve living standards
  • Increase heavy industry production
  • Increase light industry production
  • Bring back central planning

3. What economic system was introduced in 1963?

  • New Course
  • New Economic System (NES)
  • Economic System of Socialism (ESS)
  • Five-Year-Plan

4. What was the effect of the end of mass emigration on the economy?

  • Central planning was reduced
  • Everyone was keen to boost the economy
  • Regime could now rely on skilled people
  • All citizens refused to work in protest, which lead to economic collapse

5. Which of these was an aim of the New Economic System?

  • Improve economic efficiency by allowing managers to be driven by initiative and technology
  • Reduce central planning, revert to more capitalist system
  • Quantity of goods over quality of goods
  • Get to know the market better, including supply and demand

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