Content №2 от 2003
Development strategy of the Ural Federal District: growth potential.
A great resource and huge industrial potential makes the Ural region a connecting-link in the national economy, a catalyst in the formation of the Russian unified economic space. The outlook of the Ural Federal District to 2015 is further integration of its regions and maximum effect of this integration for social security purposes. It is planned to double per capita incomes against the 2002 level and bring them to the pre-reform 1991 level, to eliminate the long-standing indigence and to increase the incomes of 40% of the population (low-income groups) to two or three survival norms. In order to reach the sustainable economic growth and improve industrial output, it is necessary to put it on a new basis by restoration of the unified reproduction process, implementing restructuring and creating a competitive industry and modern technologies. By 2010 the share of resource sector will be down 1.5-2%, the share of science-intensive sector will make 13.3%, the share of socially-oriented sector will increase insignificantly (0.9%).