The economy

The first attempt at a five-year plan was for the period 1931-5, but it was only after the Second World War that systematic planning took place. The first fiveyear plan ran from 1948 to 1952. Annual plans began in 1941 with the setting up of the Board of Planning, Accounting and Control. School leavers were directed to their place of work by the Directorate of the Mongolian Organized Work Force (Sanders 1987: 119). Enterprises and institutions were mainly responsible for housing their own work forces (p. 123).