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This article presents discussion on the economic performance of the communist countries. According to the author, In a highly centralized economy, the way to make headway quickly is to concentrate on easy tasks and neglect difficult ones. The trouble with this procedure is that some day the bill has to be paid, and it turns out to be higher than it would have been if problems had been properly dealt with as they arose. Neglect of some critical tasks simply because they are difficult means that all tasks gradually become less tractable. Eventually they all become too difficult for the system to manage. According to one of the article published in the journal "American Economic Association," the Soviet economy has achieved remarkable growth, but this very growth, accompanied by compounded complexities in the economy, now threatens to break down the machine that generated it. In another article of the same journal, the author focuses on the efficiency of the economy of Yugoslavia. One of the other article discusses about the postwar industrialization of Rumania. According to the article, Rumanian industrial output grew between 1948 and 1960, 4.6 times as against 4.9 times claimed officially.

This article focuses on the unbalances economic growth in Rumania. In the last two years the Rumanian Statistical Office has reported figures of industrial growth which amount to the highest in the entire socialist block, with the possible exception of Mongolia: gross industrial output at 1955 prices rose by 12 per cent in 1960 and by 16 percent in 1961. The Six Year Plan for 1959-65 calls for a sustained rate industrial growth of about 13 per cent per year. Rumania is rich in petroleum, gas, and timber resources. With a population of 18 million, it accounts for 88 per cent of crude oil extraction in this group, 81 per cent of the natural gas output, and roughly 20 per cent of the timber produced. With respect to the materials and semifabricates that are considered essential ingredients of growth in these states, Rumania is still underdeveloped and lags behind its allies, but it is catching up, it produced nearly 7 per cent of the steel in the group in 1950, 9 per cent in 1960, and is slated to produce 3.3 million tons in 1965, or 11 per cent of the group's output.