Quality of life as an indicator of the effectiveness of advanced development areas

The advanced development area is an effective tool for regulating the country's economic development. However, the existing preferential regime for doing business does not take into account the growing importance of improving the standard and quality of life of the population of these territories. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the need to supplement the indicators characterizing the effectiveness of advanced development areas with quality-of-life indicators. The methodological tools of the study are based on the use of the basic provisions of the methodology of the Institute of Socio-Economic Problems of Population named after N.M. Rimashevskaya, according to which seven components of the standard and quality of life are determined. The study is based on the example of advanced development areas created in single-industry towns. Such territories have currently been created in 84 single-industry towns, where 1,430 residents are registered. 8.5 years have passed since the creation of the first advanced development area in a single-industry town, but to date no methodology has been developed for determining the effectiveness of their activities. The article tested the hypothesis that the quality of life is a significant indicator of the effectiveness of activities in the advanced development areas. The analysis of the main characteristics of the socio-economic development of single-industry towns that shape the quality of life of the population allowed us to form a "portrait of the advanced development area that is most attractive to residents", to establish the use by residents, using the example of the advanced development area «Naberezhnye Chelny», of existing labor-intensive technologies that are ineffective in the context of a shortage of labor resources and the country's focus on achieving technological sovereignty. The need to adjust regulatory legal acts in the field of advanced development areas is substantiated, in terms of requirements for business plans of potential residents with the inclusion of quality-of-life indicators differentiated in accordance with the type of economic activity of residents and the socio-economic characteristics of single-industry towns. It is proposed to use these indicators to assess the effectiveness of advanced development areas created in single-industry towns.