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Formation Features of Social and Economic Development Strategies in the Context of Modernization

The paper defines an economic category named receptivity of a region to modernization. We identify and classify its relation to categories of regional development: competitiveness, effectiveness and safety. The article presents the basic methods to assess the level of receptivity of a region to modernization by analyzing constituent parts of this category, and gives an author’s assessment of its level in a number of Russian regions. We arrive at a conclusion that the stated assessment should be used as a basis for determining ways to improve strategic government in regions, and suggest using the specificities of development strategies formation in regions as ways to adapt process of its elaboration to conditions of modernization of regional social and economic systems

Balakina G. F. balakina.gal@yandex.ru

Keywords: region municipal governance region modernization innovation

Small business in the new economy

The paper discusses the proposals on promoting the development of small business which is included in the Siberian Socio-Economic Development Strategy up to 2020; it also describes the mechanisms, which the author finds reasonable for achieving the strategic future goals; and the author presents her recommendations based on the principles and provisions of theory of reforms.

Basareva V. G. veransk@hnet.ru

Keywords: financial resources municipal governance small business new economy strategy of social and economic development small business

Competitiveness and development strategies for municipal units

The paper analyzes methodological issues of how to assess the competitiveness of municipal units; considers the issues of designing a strategy of socio-economic municipal unit development, and issues of planning the incomes and expenditures of local budgets; and analyzes scenarios of the socio-economic development in cities

Marshalova A. S. marnov@ieie.nsc/ru

Novoselov A. S. asnov@ieie.nsc.ru

Keywords: local government municipal unit competitiveness municipal governance municipal unit

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