IMPLEMENTATION OF OFFICIAL STATISTICS FOR ASSESSMENT OF ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY OF RUSSIAN REGIONS

Introduction: sustainable development is recognized as basics concept for harmonious long-term development in Russia and on the global level. It implies simultaneous achieving social, economic and ecologic sustainability. Assessment of sustainability is actual for territories of Russia as far as it reveals profound differences caused by historic, cultural, social, economic and natural factors. Assessment of economic sustainability looks the most difficult since it needs calculation of ecological externalities and definition of optimum economic production level. The author propose methodology of express-assessment of Russian regions economic sustainability on the base of free and regularly published statistical data. Materials and methods: two synthetic indicators were used for assessment of quantitative and qualitative aspects of economic sustainability. Quantitative aspects were assessed on the base of per capita regional product deflated data. Qualitative indicator was calculated using data on economy structure and structure of manufacturing - the share of regional product related to exploitation of non-renewable resources and sufficient environment damage was identified on the base of this data and expert assessment. Results: almost a half of regional product in Russia was related in 2017 to exploitation of non-renewable resources and environmentally threating economy. Corresponding indicator has been oscillating without obvious trend since 2005. While it has slightly improved in most regions of Russia with historically low primary production, it has worsened greatly in some regions where mining projects had been launched (Nenetsky, Sakhalyn, Astrakhan regions and others). Per capita regional product in constant prices had been quickly grown since 1999 until 2007, but it has been stagnating since 2012. There no pronounce changes of per capita regional products in most regions since 2014 to 2017. The only exception - it's significant growth in both regions of Crimea. Conclusion: there no success in turning from commodity dependence for the 2005-2017 period in Russia. Stronger economy growth is observed in Eastern regions but it in most cases relies to intensification of natural resources exploration. Strongest changes of per capita regional product since 2007 to 2017 usually relates to changes in mining industry production and in minor cases it relates to efficient management of regional administrations which succeeded to attract private investment.

sustainable development, region, Russia, social, economic, indicators

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