P rominent t ajik f igures of the

The Council for Study of Productive Forces of AS of the RT (COPF)
The Council for Study of Productive Forces (COPF) of the ASRT was founded in
1951. The COPF consists of 4 departments:
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Economic Stabilization
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Demography and Utilization of Labor Resources
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Economic Mastering of Mountain Territories
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Modeling of Socio-economic Processes
The major fields of investigation in the Institute include
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Rational development and placing of productive forces of the Republic and its
districts.
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Formation of territorial branch production complexes.
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Tackling the complex programs of major scientific-technological and socio-
economic problems in the development of the national economy of the
Republic.
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Expanding economic authority over mountain territories and rational utilization
of mountain district resources.

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Resolution of the problems in the formation of market economics, and the
demography and utilization of labor resources.
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Establishment of a system of economic and mathematical models for financial
programs in Tajikistan.
The major scientific results for the Institute include
The major results of investigations of the COPF were published in the Atlas of Tajik
SSR (1968), The Diagram of Development and Placing of Productive Forces of
Tajik SSR During the Period 1971-1985, Economic and Social Development of
Dushanbe (1981-1985), Factors of the Economic Development and Prognosis of the
Major Directions of Development and Placing of Productive Forces of Tajik SSR
During the Period 1976-1990 (in Three Volumes) and Southern Tajik Territorial
Production Complex (in Seven Volumes), The Economics of Soviet Mountain
Badakhshan, Vegetation of the Mountains of the USSR (1973), Urgent Problems of
the Reproduction of the Population and Effective Utilization of Labor Resources of
Tajik SSR (1976), "The Problems of Training Skilled Personnel to Guarantee the
National Economy of Tajikistan," Issue 2 (1979), Tajikistan. Natural Resources
(1982), Rates, Proportions and Efficiency of Public Production in Tajik SSR (1988),
Prognosis of the Development of the National Economy of the Tajik SSR Until 2005
(1988), The Development and Placing of the Productive Forces of Kulab, Kurgan-
Tube, Leninabad Provinces, Hissar District, and City of Dushanbe Until 2005
(1988-1991), The Problems of Labor: Employment and Mobility (1989),
Reservations of Tajikistan (1989), Methodical Recommendations on Modeling of
Development and Placing of Regional APC (on the Example of Province), on
Working Out of the Complex Plan of Economic and Social Development of the City
(District) (1989), Management by Scientific-technological Potential (1990),
Territorial Organization of APC and its Peculiarities in Mountain Areas (1990),
Scientific-technological Progress, Reorganization of the Structure of the National
Economy and the Economics of Tajik SSR (1990), On the Way to self-government
and Self-Financing (1991), The Problems of Transition to a Market Economy for
Rural Districts and the Peculiarities of the Rural Setting in the Republic of
Tajikistan (1992), The Bases of Market Planning and Management by Motor
Transport Enterprises (1993), Cooperation of Agricultural and Industrial
Productions and Perspectives of its Development (1993), Resource Economic
Potential of Regions of the Republic of Tajikistan (1994), The Transport Market
(1995) The Agrarian System of Tajikistan in the Colonial Period (1996).