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THIS SECTION PROVIDES A CLOSE EXAMINATION OF THE STRUCTURE OF ARMS EXPORTS OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS, NOTING THAT WHEREAS MOST US ARMS GO TO INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES, SOVIET ARMS GO MOSTLY TO THE THIRD WORLD. STATISTICS SHOW THAT THE VOLUME GROWTH OF THIRD WORLD ARMS IMPORTS HAS STAGNATED, THAT THE MIDDLE EAST IMPORTS THE MOST ARMS, AND THAT MILITARY IMPORT IS STILL TOO HIGH COMPARED TO THE OTHER NEEDS OF POOR COUNTRY IMPORTERS.

The National Institute is currently studying ways of improving its methods of short-term economic forecasting. The two articles which follow report on some of the recent work undertaken in two parts of the field, namely exports and imports.In the case of exports, our methods hitherto have been rather subjective. The first article is the account of a more rigorous procedure proposed for one part, though a very important one, of total exports of goods, namely exports of manufactures to industrial countries. Attempts to find procedures of analogous rigour for exports to primary producing countries have, so far, failed to throw up anything very useful. For imports, our procedure has for some time been rigorous, in the sense of making use of postulated econometric relationships. Thus the second article does not so much propose a new method as elaborate and modify existing methods in a way which may prove to be more satisfactory.

The purpose of the article is to develop scientifically based proposals for improving the material and technical support for the development of agricultural enterprises with domestic and foreign equipment. Research methods. In the research process, the following methods were used: dialectical knowledge of processes and phenomena; monographic (analysis of the development and provision of agriculture with imported and domestic equipment); empirical (according to a comprehensive assessment of the current state of the object of study); comparative analysis (identified the problems and goals of logistics in Ukraine); abstract-logical (generalization and formulation of conclusions). Research results. While studying the issues of export-import of agricultural machinery in Ukraine's agriculture, the current state of material and technical support was revealed and its economic and social aspects were analyzed. The main results on material and technical support of the agriculture of Ukraine are revealed. Scientific novelty. The theoretical provisions on material and technical development in agriculture were further developed, which are based on the modernization of the material and technical base of agricultural enterprises, taking into account the achievements of scientific and technological progress in Ukraine and the world, accelerating the solution of important tasks for the further mechanization of production, which will facilitate the implementation innovative progressive technologies, increase labor productivity. Practical significance. Along with individual positive changes in material and technical support, systemic obstacles to their development have been identified. Suggestions were made to eliminate them by active methods, including through state regulation. Figs.: 9. Refs.: 12.