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equal measure, both able-bodied people and those who are not yet capable of working or are already beyond the working age. It is, therefore, incorrect to connect the solution of the whole complex of social problems in the region with the results of work of the able-bodied people, it is even unjustified from the point of view of social conditions. It has become necessary to reconsider the question concerning the proportion of the paid and gratuitous services rendered to the population (education, living accommodations, health protection, medical assistance, physical culture and sport) since with the transition of regions to a territorial cost accounting, the essential part of these necessities of life may become completely or partially paid. In this connection, it must be the duty of the state and its regional organs to satisfy the paramount needs of the population. By and large, a just solution of the whole complex of social problems requires deep theoretical substantiations, i.e., it must be determined what volume of social needs and for what sections (groups) of the population and in what regions must be paid and what volume, for whom and where must not be gratuitous. It should be pointed out that a high level of social orientation of the territorial administration does not exclude the possibilities of a wide use of cost accounting relations both between the territorial and branch organs of management and between various territorial formations. And, first of all, these relations must extend to the economic and nature preserving activities. With a transition of enterprises (associations) to the cost accounting and of the economy of regions to the principles of self-support and self-management, the economic relations in the regions obtain their proper managers in the person of working collectives and the Soviets of People’s Deputies. The essential drawbacks in a number of conceptions of the regional cost accounting are connected with a lack of a properly worked out general theory of territorial management in the national economy. I shall cite a number of facts to substantiate the validity of this thesis. There is no complex system of criteria and indexes for determining the efficiency of functioning of the regional economy at different territorial levels. It is not yet clear how self-sustaining and not self-sustaining regions must be related. A change of the price index for goods and services in some regions may cause considerable difficulties in other regions, and this, in turn, will affect the realization of the interests of the national economy as a whole. An extremely poor state of the social sphere and a dangerously explosive environmental background in a number of regions in the country may serve as an essential obstacle for the transition to the regional cost accounting. The difference of the starting conditions of territories passing to the cost accounting must also be taken into account. It is an open secret that at present the social and economic state of some regions as well as of separate sectors of the population are beyond the boundary of poverty (the absence of the necessary foodstuffs, consumer goods, good living conditions, extremely bad environmental conditions, physically and morally obsolete capital assets of enterprises), and it will be difficult to improve the situation only by their own efforts. 8 0