The estimation of the socio-economic efficiency of regional investment projects

Any region is interested in investment attracting into its economy. However the realization of large-scale investment projects can have considerable social and economic effects of both positive and negative nature for the region. So it is necessary to estimate social and economic efficiency of such investment projects. Therefore the purpose of the carried out research is development of methodological approach to the estimation of social and economic efficiency of large-scale investment projects for the region. In the present article the existing methods for estimating the socio-economic efficiency of investment projects are analyzed and the content of the suggested approach is revealed. The suggested approach to the estimation of socio-economic efficiency of investment projects provides the completeness of the inclusion of socio-economic effects of the project, allows to estimate the investment project in interrelation with features of the territory of its realization and in interaction with other investment projects realized in the region and also to compare the obtained results with the purposes of socio-economic development of the region.