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01 january 2008 year
Rubric: Competition in the field of municipal power The author: Brusnikin N. Y. |
The main objective determined at the first stage of the Russian utilities and housing system reforms is to introduce the market relations into the system and attract private investment. Different factors contributed to the lack of appropriate actions in the past. Some of the goals are reached today. The author of the article looks at the status quo in the system development and takes a look at the prospects of the housing system reform.
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№ 1(7)
01 january 2008 year
Rubric: Competition in the field of municipal power The author: Basov V. P. |
The main requirement the end users of the housing and municipal engineering system have is to improve the system infrastructure. According to some experts, one of the best methods to be used to meet the requirement is to create privately owned companies that could bring large investments to the system and improve the system by making an overhaul of it. Nevertheless, rank-and-file members of the local communities usually think that privatization of the system facilities and transference of the system into the «unclean» hands will bring about the inap¬propriate supply of the vital utility services. According to the article author, when we speak about the housing infrastructure and utilities own¬ership type, we do not necessarily mean direct transference of the ownership rights to a privately-owned company.
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If we take a look at the antimonopoly law used in the developed countries, we shall see that the regulations are rather strict. We shall also see that the law is written as a result of the legal decisions taken and the application practices. The Federal Antimonopoly Service is a meaningful market economy tool. It was founded 15 years ago. The Russian antimonopoly legislation was created during this 15-year period of time. It fosters the competition and counters monopolies and mala fide competition. But the legislation is subject to amendments that make it better.
The editorial board has asked Ms Bondareva to speak about what the newest amendments are in the financial market-related antimonopoly legislation in Russia.
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Despite the high economic efficiency figures available, sustainable economic growth, business development and the recent reforms made in some of the economy sectors found in Russia, the following problems are still acute: low production rate that is comparable to the rate found in the Central European countries where the economic development rate is lower that in Russia; the widening gap between the welfare rate the poorest and the richest people have; lowering life ex¬pectancy figures, etc.
It is not surprising that different analysts make totally different conclusions related to the factors influencing the Russian economy competitiveness level increase and the economic development prospects.
Anna Belova has agreed to answer the editorial board's questions on the factors influencing the national economy competitiveness level changes.
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The Russian natural resources (primarily, the power production-related resources) have been re¬garded as the country's indisputable competitive advantage for a long time.
It is clear today that the energy production issues the mankind faces cannot be resolved unless the nuclear power is used. That is why the following question becomes topical: is there a direct correlation between the Russian economy competitiveness level and the atomic power production sector development stage? Igor Ostretsov discusses this question here.
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Commodity market analysis that includes the competitive environment analysis made during a certain period of time is not an end in itself. It is supposed that some administrative or economic decisions are to be made in the end. The decisions should be made either to maintain the market situation or to change the competitive market environment. It means the commodity market analysis should be made at different time intervals twice. Firstly, it should be made when an adminis¬trative decision is made and, secondly, at the moment when the planned outcome is about to be reached. The analyst should have an easy-to-use tool for processing the data to keep him from double work.
Automated commodity market analysis system (ACMAS) was created by one of the article authors. At the moment when it was invented it was seen as an application needed to manage the sales and production data generated by different entities (legal entities and individuals) that produced different goods on different territories. Therefore the system can be of interest for the analysts and the marketing people.
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