Content №4 от 2007
Regional programs and strategies: Far East
The Far East is a region where multiple attempts have been made to implement several long-term programs of the social and economic development. The paper analyses the experience of such programs and the reasons why they had failed to be fully implemented. The author believes that a new approach to the regional program planning is needed most – i.e. to recover a native purport of any conditional program - a tool being applied to centralize management and to concentrate resources. It means to limit regional elites to be able to form development strategies, and therefore to assign this function mostly to “a programming center” which may – and should – include both regional and federal experts.
