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№ 5(11)
01 september 2008 year
Rubric: Strategy and tactics Authors: Bogolyubova N. P., Pleshcheva V. V. |
The economic situation on the world financial market is bad, and there are not many opportunities now to get «cheap» loans from abroad. That is why it is so important to identify the domestic source of readily available and disposable assets and turn them into the operating assets. One of such sources is the private households' money. If the national financial system is fine-tuned to attract the households' funds, an opportunity will be created to increase the investment inflow into the Russian economy. The key players who operate on the financial market (e. g. banks, UlTs, privately-owned entities that create pension funds, insurance companies, and joint-stock companies) have already started a serious battle for the available funds held by the private households. Who will be the one to get the peoples' money? And would people trust a business entity in the first place? The success in the competition for the households' funds depends on whether we become fully aware of the factors that influence the savings-related people's behavior and of the objectives and motivation people have when choosing a way to keep their savings. It is also important to correctly assess the regional physical entities' savings' characteristics. The regional savings' structure knowledge will help make better decisions in regard of the competition methods and ways to attract the counterparties.
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The author analyzes administrative, structural and institutional factors contributing to the Russian scientific work sector competitiveness level change. The factors include the way the objects and facilities-related rights of ownership and copyright on the work results are treated; the way the money is allocated for each stage of the project work and research; the way various types of industrial facilities are used. The author proves that the state executive bodies should take the initiative and take steps to improve the rate of return of the entities that take part in the scientific work.
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Today Russia is facing a problem of choosing priorities in the foreign affairs, and the problem is as acute as it never has been. The geographic and strategic position that Russia occupies between the East and the West determines the country's development trends and the inconsistency in the coun-try's development throughout the history. The trend was described by Petr Chaadayev, Russian first geopolitical analyst. «As Russia is in-between the two main parts of the world, the West and the East, and is adjacent to China on the one hand and close to Germany on the other, it should have coupled the two main spiritual work pillars, imagination and reason, and incorporate the world history into its own civilization. But the country's role that is determined by Heavens is not like this», he said. What is that role? This is the question that is to be answered and the Russians are constantly in search for the answer. The author examines the geographic and economic situation the foreign countries and Russia are in and the future of the country that we have to build taking into consideration the world economic development trends.
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The article explores the mechanism of industrial policy implementation which emerged in the 80ies and 90ies of the XXth century, and outlines new approaches to the modern tools. The article focuses on such contemporary industrial policy tools as national priority programs implementa¬tion, cluster approach, private-public partnership, and complementary institutions on the regional development level.
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The article is dedicated to the Russian inter-regional competition intensity assessments. The wheat market is examined to check the unified price-setting hypothesis. The empirical data shows that the Russian grain market cannot be called harmonized as there are barriers that hamper the price gap-bridging process in the regions. The article demonstrates how the regional month-to-month price change data, transportation cost data and the interregional trade volume change data can be used to identify the trends emerged in the Russian national market development and the factors that influence the trend building process.
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№ 6(12)
01 november 2008 year
Rubric: Industry competition (the banking sector) The author: Tolstolesova L. A. |
The factors that contribute to the decrease in the sustainable Russian economy growth are the financial resource concentration in the raw material-related sectors; lack of investments that go into the processing industry development; inefficient mechanisms offered to be used to improve the competitiveness level of the product made by the majority of the entities operating in the non-raw material sectors. In view of the above, one of the main tasks the state bodies have to fulfill now is to ensure the eco¬nomic growth based on the structural transformation of the economy and the competitiveness level improvement. The international experience shows that virtually the only way to reach the goal is to provide substantial investments into the real economic sector and to create an efficiently operating mechanism of transferring the money. A special role here is played by the loan and credit organiza-tions that are to accumulate the business entities' spare cash and use it to develop the prioritized infrastructure building projects and regional development programs. However, the participation of the financial institutions in the regional development is often restricted as they cannot accumulate the resource needed to support the large projects that can meet the requirements set by the cus¬tomers who are interested in making investments into the production sector. The author takes the example of the Tyument Region and examines the ways of making the regional banking sector investors more active as far as the investment-making is concerned.
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