Material Product System

The material product system (English Material Product System, or MPS, actually System of Balances of the National Economy ) describes a method for creating standard economic accounts. The process was one develops the 1920s in the Soviet Union and was until 1990 in planned economies economies use. As a key metric in the MPS, the net material product (equivalent to the net domestic product) acted next to the gross material product (equivalent to Gross Domestic Product ).

In contrast to the developed after the Second World War and today used worldwide United Nations System of National Accounts ( SNA) only the area was the so-called " material production " recorded in the MPS, ie only the production of goods and services such that the production and distribution of goods are connected, are included in the calculation. Be calculated, for example, installation and repair services, goods transport and telecommunications, but not personal services such as health and education or domestic security.

History

A first forerunner of the material product system was first released in 1926, along with the first national accounts and more extensive economic statistics of the USSR concerning the fiscal 1923 / 24th More releases followed in the decades after the Second World War took over the Soviet satellite states of this system. 1958 a revised version of the MPS of the UN was presented with the aim to improve the comparability of MPS and SNA. Ten years later, the Council for Mutual Economic Aid, says a re- revised version of the MPS as the standard method economic accounts statistics in its member states. This version was also submitted to the UN in 1971 declared this the MPS recommended as a second standard economic accounts statistics in addition to the SNA.

Quickly, the MPS also proved to be unsuitable for the planned economy systems. As early as the 1970s began the CMEA statistics department with further revisions of the system, with the aim of aligning it more with the SNA and to facilitate the translation between the two systems. The results were presented in 1987 by the UN. Plans that had a combination of both systems to the target, were not implemented due to the political upheavals of the 1980s .. Some states of the Eastern Bloc began at this time to produce national accounts statistics based on both systems and publish. The Soviet Union presented in 1988 to the SNA, most other states follow in 1990. Two years took over the People's Republic of China and Cuba, the SNA, only the remains of Yugoslavia kept the MPS until 1997.

Countries, which used the material product system:

  • Albania Albania 1946
  • Bulgaria 1971 Bulgaria
  • People's Republic of China People's Republic of China
  • Germany Democratic Republic in 1949 German Democratic Republic
  • Yugoslavia Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
  • Poland Poland
  • Kampuchea Kampuchea 1979
  • North Korea North Korea
  • Cuba Cuba
  • Laos Laos
  • People's Republic of Mongolia Mongolia 1949
  • Romania 1965 Romania
  • Soviet Union 1955 Soviet Union
  • Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
  • Hungary 1957 Hungary
  • Vietnam Vietnam ( North Vietnam only to 1976 )
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