Content №4 от 2011

Assessing how urbanization influence an economic growth in Russia

The paper shows how urbanization, the world trends and Russian specifics determine the sources and limitations to economic development in Russia. We present our analysis of the data concerning RF federal units to show how economic growth and urbanization depend on each other. We can conclude that still there are few urbanization sources left in the Russian economy, though the effects of a large city proved to be small.

Kolomak Ie. A. ekolomak@academ.org

Keywords: urbanization economic development empirical estimations