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Hungary DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION
Hungary's domestic trade sector differed significantly
from
the cumbersome rationing system that existed in most
centrally
planned economies. And since Hungary began implementing
economic
reforms, the production sectors of the economy funneled
through
the trade sector a far better supply and variety of goods
and
services than Hungarians had enjoyed earlier. By the late
1980s,
Hungary's economy had largely overcome the supply
shortages that
tormented both producers and consumers in countries with
command
economies. Still, many Hungarians lived at or below the
officially recognized poverty level
(see Social Relations in the 1980s
, ch. 2).
Data as of September 1989
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