Content №3 от 2008
Net savings as an indicator of the sustainable regional development
The paper is devoted to the question of whether a true-savings index – a sustainable development indicator - well known in western scientific publications, could be applied to assessing the sustainability of regional development. The author made an effort, through a case-study for the Samara Oblast, to measure a real speed of national saving after deduction of human investments, depletion of physical capital, natural resources and diseconomies of environment pollution.