NAFTA and the Mexican Products Liability System. Harmonization and Reform of Mexican Tort Law

Because financial resources were not available to solve the problem of modernization, the countryБЂ™s Party political leadership again committed to using the mobilization potential of the Soviet economic and political system, with its mechanism of central planning, whose effectiveness was unquestioned by the ruling elite. And so the Party once again used its traditional mechanism of solving the most important economic tasks, organizing mass campaigns in society under loud, attractive slogans such as: БЂњAccelerate the social and economic development of the USSR,БЂ«БЂњRestructuring at a march,БЂ«БЂњThe labor energy,БЂ«БЂњCardinal reform,БЂ«etc. Initially, this strategy worked, both in society in general and in the oil industry in particular. In 1986, the USSR produced 678 million tons of oil and gas condensate, an increase of some 22 million tons over the preceding year. By 1987, oil production had reached the 688 million ton mark, which would be the maximum production level over the entire history of the Soviet state ...»