EVALUATION OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE OLD INDUSTRIAL REGION IN THE CONTEXT OF ENSURING ITS ECONOMIC SECURITY

Abstract

In the conditions of a complex, difficultly predictable external environment and the continuing instability of domestic socio-economic processes, studies, devoted to the development of methodological bases for assessing the economic security of the regions of the Russian Federation, acquire particular urgency. Evaluation of regional development in the context of economic security is designed to form the basis for making adequate management decisions, aimed at minimizing challenges and threats to the sustainable functioning of the regional socio-economic system. The paper presents methodological approach to the evaluation of the development of the old industrial region, on the territory of which are concentrated highly specialized industries, associated with the outgoing technological modes. This approach is based on the consideration of institutional, legal, economic, social, organizational, managerial and environmental factors, which ensure sustainable, economically secure development of the region. The author offers conceptual model for the assessing the nature of the development of the old industrial region in the context of ensuring its economic security. The paper contains the system of local, group and integral indicators for assessing the sustainability of the socio-economic development of the territory and presents the approbation of methodological approach in relation to the Tula region, which is one of the typical old industrial regions of the center of Russia.