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Factors of migration of the northern regions’ population
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In the article migration factors and their influence on the process of the population formation in the northern regions are considered, their classification is given; it is probable to operate the population migration through influencing controlled factors such as legal, economic, organizational and informational ones; the reasons of the population migration in 2005 and in 2008 are represented.
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Factors of social investment dynamics at the enterprise
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Corporate social responsibility is the best form of interaction between business and society. Based on the materials of the Mordovia's state unitary enterprise “Teplichnoye”, the article deals with the factors that influence the dynamics of social investment in the company, their impact on the production level and its efficiency.
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Foreign experience of technology transfer and its application in Russia
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The article provides an overview of foreign experience in technology transfer and commercialization. It describes the peculiarities and drawbacks of organizing technology transfer in Russia. In addition, the article proposes the directions for applying foreign experience in the country’s innovation system.
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Funding problems of regional housing and utilities sector and the ways to solve them
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The need to reform a housing and utilities sector has escalated and become actual in terms of the overwhelming dominance of state ownership and high centralization of management. Unfortunately, the artificial monopolization and significant dependence of this sphere on subsidies have resulted in the distorted behavioral motivation of all the subjects and overall inefficiency of housing and utilities services. The article shows the analysis of current state of housing and utilities sector in the regions of the North-West Federal District; it deals with the problems of its funding and offers the promising directions to improve the regional policy effectiveness in the housing and utilities sector.
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Gender analysis of the Russian labor market
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The issue of gender inequality in the labor market affects all world countries to some extent. As salary is the basis of population’s sources of income in Russia, unequal pay to men and women for equal work can trigger gender discrimination in the labor market and beyond. The article focuses on the gender analysis of the Russian labor market. It focuses on conjunctural conditions of the labor market in a gender aspect, socio-economic characteristics of men and women as subjects of the labor market and the institutional features of the Russian labor market. The study reveals that, despite lower wages, women, judging by their socio-economic characteristics, possess competitive advantages over men, having higher level of education and better state of health. In addition to horizontal segregation, traditional partition of industries to “male” and “female”, the main causes of gender wage gaps are discriminatory social attitudes and social role of women. The issue to address gender discrimination in the modern Russian society becomes more critical due to contradiction between normative-legal acts, stipulating the gender equality in all spheres of life, and discriminatory social attitudes...
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He assessment of the regional tourism infrastructure development
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The Russian Federation has a high potential for tourism, but, according to the World Economic Forum, it ranks only 63rd in the world in the rating of travel and tourism sector competitiveness in 2013. The obstacle to tourism development in the country and its regions is still an underdeveloped tourist infrastructure, the slow pace of development and improvement of its basic elements. The article discloses the tourist infrastructure concept in the region, defines its structure, summarizes methodological approaches to its assessment and reveals the advantages and disadvantages of the considered methods. It presents the author’s method to estimate the regional tourism infrastructure development that has been approbated by the data of the Northwestern Federal District. The research has resulted in the regions’ differentiation by the following development levels: high, above average, average, below average. The evaluation results have helped to indicate the key problems, hindering the regional tourist infrastructure development, and to formulate the basic directions of its improvement...
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Impact of global financial crisis on emerging markets
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This article is focused on the implications of the financial crisis for emerging markets. The author analyses the impact of financial turmoil on the economic growth in emerging economies and gives possible recommendations to mitigate this impact.
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Improvement of the mechanism for the management of innovation activity in the manufacturing industry
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The transition of Russia’s economy from raw materials exporting model of development to the innovation model is a national priority, since it contributes to intensive and sustainable economic growth and reduces economic dependence on external markets. GDP growth rate of 75-90% in the developed countries such as the USA, Japan, Germany, the UK, France, and also in the newly industrialized countries of Southeast Asia and China, is achieved due to the “progress of knowledge” - the intellectualization of the main production factors. Due to this fact, the increase in the standard of living in Russia, as well as overcoming its technological and economic lagging behind the more developed countries is possible only on the basis of the increase in productivity, enhancement of Russia’s competitiveness in international markets of innovative products, modernization and sustainable development of industrial enterprises through the creation of new innovation capabilities and the extensive utilization of that which have already been accumulated...
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Industrial policy as a mechanism of regional development
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The article reveals the essence of industrial policy and determines its role in ensuring the region’s sustainable development. Furthermore, it substantiates the importance of industrial policy in the rationalization of the region’s economy structure and enhancement of its performance. The article also proposes an algorithm for the development of active regional industrial policy.
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Influence of capital and costs on the evaluation of transfer prices
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The present article deals with the methodology for defining the optimal transfer price in commercial structures. The paper contains the examples and analysis of assessing transfer prices taking into account the specifics and characteristics of organization’s costs and capital. The novelty of the work consists in the fact that it analyzes approach methods based on a detailed classification of expenditures with a purpose of practical implementation of the transfer pricing system.
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Influence of investment subsystem on the region's socio-economic development
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The article contains the analysis of socio-economic development of the regions by a ranking method. The author has proved the influence of the investment processes on the level of the region development and has revealed the relationship between the specific allocation of the investment subsystem resources and the level of the region development. The methods of statistical analysis are used in this study, and the information basis of the study is statistical materials of the Federal State Statistics Service.
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The paper studies the peculiarities of reproductive behavior of the Komi Republic residents. It describes the dynamics of quantitative indicators of fertility, analyzes the qualitative characteristics of reproductive behavior of the Komi Republic residents and determines the nature of their influence on the state of the institute of parenthood. The article gives the definitions of “reproductive behavior”, “parenthood” and establishes their relationship. The aim of the research is to identify the processes and phenomena that characterize the qualitative aspects of reproductive behavior, which could have an adverse impact on the functioning of the institute of parenthood; the study also aims to develop recommendations for the minimization of the negative phenomena. To achieve the objectives of the study based on statistical data, the author analyzes the demographic processes and phenomena that are characteristic of the Komi Republic and that have an adverse effect on the functioning of the institute of parenthood, and makes an attempt to establish cause-effect relations between these phenomena...
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Informational system of monitoring of the region's scientific and technical potential
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In the article the characteristics of the modern state of the problem of informational monitoring systems' development are represented, the primary goals of information technologies' application to monitoring scientific and technical potential are formulated. On the analysis' basis the functional system model is based, the mechanism of its basic modules' work is represented. The problems of the program's developing and realizing of the informational system for the regional scientific and technical potential's monitoring are considered. The information system is represented as the programming-informational complex based on the principle of the united information space and providing the operative analytical account and the control of the development parameters of the scientific and technical potential.
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Inter-municipal cooperation as a factor promoting the economic and social development
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The article deals with the concept of “inter-municipal cooperation”, it substantiates the importance of inter-municipal cooperation for socio-economic development. The article describes the basic models of inter-municipal cooperation and highlights their essential characteristics. Besides, it reveals the main problems, impeding the wide-scale usage of this institution in practice and proposes a stepwise algorithm of formation and development of inter-municipal cooperation.
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The article proves that the rate of economic growth to a large extent depends on the involvement of the region's economy in inter-regional relations. The econometric model of the relationship between inter-regional trade and investment in fixed assets, and the gross regional product can be used to assess the contribution of inter-regional relations into economic development. The analysis of the inter-regional relations of the Vologda Oblast reveals the main problems of their development, shows the possibilities of using the mechanisms of strategic planning aimed at enhancing the cooperation between the regions.
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Issues of state-society relations
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The issues of state-society relations that have become especially acute in the conditions of the world financial and economic crisis cannot be neglected, because it can trigger the growth of protest moods. This calls for the necessity to provide public authorities with a constructive, science-based programme. In 2013 the Institute of Socio-Economic Development of Territories of RAS (ISEDT RAS) carried out a research aimed at analyzing whether the state policy corresponds to the main requirements of the modern Russian society. In order to achieve this goal, the following tasks were set out: to review the state of the civil society in Russia and in the Vologda Oblast, in particular after the 2008 global financial crisis; to identify the socio-economic and socio-political problems, which arouse main concern among the population of the Russian Federation and the Vologda Oblast in the post-crisis period; to describe the measures undertaken by the government to address these issues...
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The problem of population ageing in Russia is increasingly attracting attention of scientists and politicians. Long ago researchers recognized the irreversibility of the population ageing process in the conditions of narrowed population reproduction, but the measures to mitigate the consequences in our country, unlike Western countries, are not well developed yet. Population ageing with high probability leads to the change in labor market functioning due to the reduction in the share of able-bodied population and children and, consequently, the permanent increase in the proportion of older people in the total number of population. In these conditions the effective realization of resource potential of the older generation becomes one of the most important factors in socio-economic development of the territory. This article is aimed at studying the changes and specifics of labor activity of the population of retirement age on the example of the Vologda Oblast. The first part of the article is devoted to the main aspects of the impact of population ageing on economic development...
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Level of development of scientific and education environment in Russian regions
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The article describes the state of modern scientific-educational complex in Russian regions. It evaluates the RF subjects according to the authors’ methodology of calculating the integral index of the territories’ scientific and education environment development. Besides, the article proposes the grouping of the regions which allows for determining the main directions of Russia’s scientific and education environment development.
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Methodology for assessing the work of small business at the municipal level
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In order to promote sustainable socio-economic development in a municipality, its local authorities face the task of establishing an industrial and financial base on their territory, it will help increase its level of economic independence. On the basis of foreign experience and domestic research on territorial development it can be concluded that one of the most effective ways to enhance the level of socio-economic development of the municipality is to boost its small business. Effective management of this economic sector requires adequate assessment of its functioning at the municipal level. The analysis of existing methodologies for assessing the functioning of small business at the municipal level shows that none of them meets the criteria that the author of the present paper has selected and that are necessary for efficient research into the small business sector. In this regard, a methodology for estimating the work of small business at the municipal level was elaborated, and tested on the statistic data of municipal formations of the Vologda Oblast...
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Modern particularities of economic interests demonstration in the exchange phase
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In modern conditions the development of retail trade as the key element of the exchange phase is one of the priority directions of economic policy of the Russian Federation. At the same time the galloping increase in trade volumes, connected with economic appeal of branch, has more often started to lead to an aggravation of contradictions between the manufacturer, large distributing networks often inclined to monopolization of the prices, and the consumer. The multidimensional analysis of growth of retail trade, and also the basic spheres of display of economic interests of participants of distribution and their contradictions are given in the article.
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