TRENDS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUBJECTS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN 2016

Abstract

One of the basic factors, determining the nature of socio-economic processes in the Russian Federation, is the trends in the development of regional economies. The accounting of their characteristics is mandatory for the developing of the strategy of spatial development of the national economy. However, the solution of this problem meets certain difficulties, caused by the qualitative differences within these trends. The development of regional economies has different speed and direction. In addition, in a number of regions there is stagnation or even «negative» economic growth. In the Russian Federation, these differences are especially «convex» due to both to the factor of objective nature (economic-geographical, natural-climatic, socio-cultural, etc.) and of subjective nature (ambiguity in the goals of regional policy, mistakes in the selection of regional growth factors, etc.). The results of the research, presented in the article, make it possible to characterize the development trends of the economies of the subjects of the Russian Federation from the standpoint of assessing their readiness for modernization, conducting towards organization of manufacturing production with higher value added.