ABSTRACT
A casual look at statistics, whether national or international, on the structure of the national economy or, more precisely, on the production structure of the Soviet-type economies indicates something amiss with the industrial sectors of STEs. The share of industry in STEs has been increasing continually, while elsewhere, even in countries within the same GNP per capita range as that of STEs, the pattern has been different. It is a well-known characteristic of structural change in the world economy that industry's share in GDP increases over time, then at a certain level of economic development that share stabilises and later begins slowly to decline.
