Problems of assessing intangible resources in the implementation of rural development policy

The relevance of the research is due to the increasing importance of intangible resources, which today are considered as fundamental, strategic resources of territorial development policy. This problem is of particular importance for rural areas of the Russian Federation, which are facing a structural crisis and, as a result, difficulties in fulfilling national functions. The aim of this article is to present the results of methodological work on the creation of a system of subjective social indicators that make it possible to assess the current state of intangible resources for territorial development policy and their testing using the example of rural settlements in the Krasnodar Territory. The article shows how, based on the allocated intangible resources for the development of territories and their substantive characteristics, a system of subjective indicators has been formed to assess the state of these resources at the level of local communities. The results of the approbation of the methodology on the example of rural settlements of the Krasnodar Territory are presented. The study covered 12 rural settlements from six municipal districts. The results showed that the current state of intangible resources depends not so much on the level of development of individual settlements as on the level of development of the municipal areas in which they are included. It has been established that the first-order resources – the basic activators of the territorial development process – human potential, local identity and leadership have a higher development level. The assessment of second- and third-order resources indicates the need to strengthen efforts to activate them. The proposed methodology can be used as a tool for diagnosing the state of intangible resources in the implementation of territorial development policies at the “entrance” and “exit”, as well as a tool for regular monitoring.