The scientific and technological revolution has led to a sharp increase in the consumption of minerals in most countries of the world and brought the problem of nature protection and rational use of natural resources to the forefront ...

When solving the problem of optimizing the service life of machinery and equipment, the main thing is the choice of economic criterion. As such a criterion in different periods proposed the equality of costs for the next overhaul of the current and acquisition of new machines, profitability of products, reduced costs, average industry annual economic effect from the replacement of existing machines ...

The peoples of the liberated countries entered the most crucial stage of their history. After gaining political independence, they are faced with the task of eliminating the consequences of the domination of imperialism and colonialism, creating a developed national economy, overcoming economic backwardness and achieving a rise in the living standards of the population. These urgent tasks of national development require profound economic and social transformations and, above all, the conquest of economic independence.

The main task of the modern stage of the national liberation revolution is to win economic independence. The resolution of this central national task is inconceivable without the creation of modern industry capable of ensuring the integrated development of the economy and the elimination of its lopsided monocultural character. The tasks of industrialization require the full development of the mining industry, which should provide the mineral and raw material base for the developing national industry. Therefore, the development of national mining industry is an objectively conditioned process of development of productive forces and at the same time one of the forms of the struggle for economic independence.

The conquest of economic independence is the main task of the peoples who have thrown off the chains of colonialism. It is impossible to achieve true national independence without a decisive struggle against imperialism, which “... remains the main enemy and the main obstacle to the solution of the national tasks facing the young sovereign states and all dependent countries.” The decisive uprooting of the economic roots of imperialist domination is of paramount importance for the liberated countries. Therefore, the question of nationalization of foreign monopolies acquires for these countries a special acuteness. This article deals with the nationalization of foreign capital in the underdeveloped countries of Southeast Asia.