Development strategy. Рубрика в журнале - Economic and Social Changes: Facts, Trends, Forecast
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On the practice of strategic approach to administration in the municipalities of the Russian North
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The article presents the results of the analysis of institutional prerequisites for and the practice of strategic planning and management in the municipalities of the Russian North. Implementation of a strategic approach in management is particularly important in the Northern municipalities, as it is an important means of tackling such negative trends, as depopulation, migration outflow of population and other socio-economic problems. The article defines the main factors promoting or hampering the application of strategic management technologies in Northern cities, towns and municipal districts.
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On the role of investments in sustainable economic growth
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The article raises one of the most acute problems of the economy - promotion of sustainable economic growth. The article substantiates the relevance of the issue for global, national and regional economies. It argues that the goal of ensuring high economic growth rates is a strategic one for the Russian Federation; the achievement of this goal will allow Russia to retain its position among the world leaders. However, this requires, first of all, the transition from the model of economy oriented to raw materials export to the innovation model. The article shows that investments play the most important part in the promotion of sustainable economic growth. Endogenous models indicate that long-term sustainable economic growth requires investments in machinery and equipment, in human capital and in the knowledge sector. At that, the investments in human capital and knowledge are more preferable. The results of the investment processes analysis presented in the article allowed us to draw some conclusions concerning the situation that is taking shape in the Russian Federation...
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On the strategy of integrated modernization
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The article is continued designing strategy of modernization in Russia and its regions, originally set out by the author in the report at the Conference “The evolution of Russia’s regions and their strategies of socio-cultural modernization» (Vologda, ISEDT RAS, October 2012; see. sat. Conference materials, part 1). Extended meaning of “integrated modernization”, proposed by Professor Chuanqi He. Special attention is paid to the unfinished state of societal transformation as the main limit, modernization of Russia and its regions. Grounded three-phase strategy of integrated upgrades, each of which has its own set of strategic priorities, which should ensure the interaction of industrial and information stages of modernization of regions of the appropriate types.
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On the strategy of sustainable development of Russia's economy
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The article contains the main provisions of the authors’ report on the economic development strategy and presents a system approach to the analysis of the state and prospects of Russia’s economic development in the conditions of worldwide instability. Furthermore, the article considers the proposals for the implementation of an integrated system of government policy measures aimed at the development and modernization of economy on the advanced structural and technological basis, the implementation of which will enhance economic growth rates and promote the transition to innovation development.
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Nation-wide modernization is possible only if it is carried out in all of the regions of a country. And the elaboration of the plans for the country’s (regions’) modernization implies quite reasonably the comparison of the key parameters of the territory’s modernization with those of developed countries, the countries leading in innovation development. Due to significant territorial differences in Russia’s development, it is necessary to differentiate the approach to determining the level of the regions’ modernization. A scientifically proved strategy is required specifically for each federal district and region (supported by the population and implemented by management authorities), such a strategy should take into consideration the problems hindering modernization in the given territory.
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Overcoming social inequality as an impetus to socio-cultural modernization
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The article shows that the main factors constraining socio-cultural modernization are social inequality and low standard of living. A swift modernization development requires the presence of a favorable environment that gives an impetus to the society for modernization, as well as certain (modern) level of innovation, technological and socio-cultural development. In addition, the advantages and problems related to the assessment of modernization in the regions of the Federal District, based on the methodology developed at China Center for Modernization Research, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Modernization is considered as a process that leads not only to technological and innovation progress, but mainly to favorable changes in society and to the improvement of human potential with the preservation of traditions and cultural heritage. The study has found out that the hampering of modernization in the Northwestern Federal District includes two aspects: economic and cognitive...
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The article considers the processes and results of privatization of enterprises taking place in the Arctic regions of the Russian Federation in the period of 1991-2010. The authors study the aspect concerning the redistribution of influence (financial, political, etc.) between companies and the state, and between different levels of power. A conclusion has been made that the 2000-2010 period faced the intensification of transition from the direct intervention model, when the government acts as a regulator and entrepreneur, to the principles of indirect management.
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Post-industrial technological mode of production: time of emergence
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The article characterizes a postindustrial technological way of production, an indicator, a set of technologies and connection with the pre-industrial and industrial technological methods of production. The development of the sixth technological mode is treated as the beginning of formation of the postindustrial technological way of production. The author reveals possibilities and prospects of post-industrial technologies. Many countries are conducting research on the application of post-industrial technologies despite industrial production, leading in the world. The article draws attention to the strengthening of measures on development of post-industrial technologies in our country.
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Problems of development and institutional reformation of the power-supply complex of Russia
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In this article the problems of the current state of the power-supply complex of Russia and efforts for their decision by the basic institutional changes, their purposeful directivity, the difficulties for their realization and expected consequences are analyzed.
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Programmed project modernization of the federative structure in Russia
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The modernization is considered as a programmed project need for sustainable and balanced social development. Science and innovative should become a mover of this modernization. The article deals with the essence and meaning of modernization, it defines the forms of modernization and its features. The priorities and programmed project development institutions have been substantiated by the socio-economic development of the Russian Federation, regions, municipalities and market agents. The article also analyzes the theoretical and methodological approaches to the evaluation of the eventual result of modernization which is considered as a possibility to use a human development index and / or a human happiness index.
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Prospects for economic cooperation between the Eurasian and European Unions
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The article analyzes the history of European integration, summarizes the negative experience of some previous attempts to form a greater Europe. The authors discuss certain challenges that Eurasian integration throws out to the EU. They define the prospects of economic cooperation between the Eurasian Union and the European Union in the framework of practical implementation of the idea of “integration of integrations”.
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Region management in terms of sustainable development
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The article considers the approach towards the improvement of the management of regional development, which is based on determining the character and direction of the influence of a number of factors on regional development by applying the method of principal components. The approbation of the suggested approach to the statistical data of Russian regions for 2000-2010 in terms of the region's major subsystems indicated the absence of progressive development tendencies, as well as made it possible to determine the character and the direction of the influence of the investigated factors, which in the regional management practice permit taking the regions to the sustainable development pathway, to be determined.
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Regional budget for 2013 - 2015: stability or survival?
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The next three-year budget has been enacted in the Vologda Oblast. According to the Senior Executive Vice-Governor of the Vologda Oblast A.A. Travnikov, the discussion of the main financial region’s law has been “the hardest over recent years because it is too difficult to drop down, especially after a long period of sustainable growth”1. For the first time, the regional budget has not been adopted in the first reading because it has left out of account the resources due to acute debt burden, which are necessary for eliminating the crisis disproportions, making the conditions for economic growth and dealing with the vitally important tasks of growth in the population’s prosperity defined by the President of the Russian Federation in his election programmes. Meanwhile, clear and strict implementation of these tasks is not only a matter of authorities’ prestige, but also social and political stability. According to the basic parameters of the budget, the situation in the budgetary sphere will not improve in the short term...
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Regional budget of 2012 - 2014: stability is delayed
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The article presents the new results of ongoing research carried out in ISEDT RAS on regional budgeting of the Vologda Oblast in the medium term1. Judging by the main budget parameters, the situation in the budget sphere will become aggravated in foreseeable future. According to forecasts, the deterioration of financial conditions of metal manufacture, the basic industry in the region, will not allow the regional budget to restore its pre-crisis level of revenues in 2012. They will be below the level of 2011. The reduction of federal financial support creates additional dangers for the regional budget burdened with debts. The public debt of the Vologda Oblast, which has reached a critical level, increases the risk of providing the investment with financial resources, which are necessary to modernize the regional economy. However, despite this dramatic situation, there are the reserves to ensure social security in the region.
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In the article the significance and current preconditions for sustainable development of the Russian Northern cities are considered and analyzed. Necessity of strategic management methods use for achievement of sustainable development goals by the towns is proved.
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The following issue is a scientific report “Russia and the global crisis: first results”, which was represented by the author at the permanent Russian and French seminar on monetary and financial problems of the Russian economy, held in Vologda in April 2010. The text is published with abridgement.
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Saint Petersburg in the post-Soviet time: economic strategies and development
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This paper studies the main features and results of economic development of Saint Petersburg in the post-Soviet period. The purpose was to determine the extent of influence of urban development on the results of development of Saint Petersburg during this period. The method used in this study consists in the processing of a large array of statistical and analytical materials and regulatory framework; determination of the mutual relationship between the achieved results and the implementation of the program-planning documents that define the objectives, priorities and tasks of socio-economic development of Saint Petersburg. In the course of work the authors have highlighted seven key stages in the development of the city’s economy for the past 22 years, and six stages of development of the socio-economic planning system. The research into the specifics of Saint Petersburg economy within these stages shows that external conditionshave a decisive influence on the results of its economic development...
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He article is devoted to the problems of strategic management of single-industry towns' development in the Russian Arctic. It presents brief characteristics of the government policies in relation to single-industry towns of the Russian Federation as a whole, and, particularly, of its Arctic zone. On the example of single-industry towns of the Murmansk Oblast it studies strategies of their development, typical problems to shape and implement strategic development plans.
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