Indicators for assessing socio-economic development strategies of a region from the point of view of competitiveness, sustainability, security and balanced development

The article is devoted to the analysis of the content of strategies for social and economic development of southern old industrial regions (Volgograd, Rostov and Astrakhan regions) if the set of measures suggested in them correspond to the goals of providing competitiveness, stability, security and balance of the development of regional social and economic spheres in the medium and long term periods. The relevance of the research is due to the need to improve the efficiency of regulation of social and economic development of old industrial regions, which are seen as promising platforms for neo-industrial transformations. When identifying the criteria, the authors take into account the provisions:competitiveness of a region is ensured by the presence of effective development institutions that encourage export- oriented industrial production, its import-substituting constituent, innovative activity of enterprises and organizations, investment attractiveness of the territory; b) sustainability is founded on the methodological positions of sustainable development; c) security should be assessed on the basis of indicators of development of economic, financial and social sphere, reflecting the ability of the economy to function in order to achieve expanded reproduction: structural proportions in economic sectors; d) balanced development is understood as the functioning and development of the object, environmental, project and process subsystems of the region. The analysis of development strategies of old industrial regions of the South of Russia showed that their content, as well as the package of measures, were determined on the basis of the prevailing characteristics of social and economic development of these entities, as well as the management practices that have been developed, which influenced the choice of approaches to the development of regional strategies. While in Volgograd and Astrakhan regions a project-oriented approach prevails, allowing to specify a package of formed measures, in Rostov region the “challenge-reaction” approach dominates, reflecting to a lesser extent the specifics of the opportunities to use regional potential.