Buchvald E.M., Vilensky A.V. Institutes of development in strategic planning of spatial structure of the Russian economy
Evgeniy Moiseevich Buchvald
Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor, Chief Scientific Researcher, Head of the Centre of Federal Relations and Regional Development, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Nakhimovskiy Prosp., 32, 117281 Moscow, Russian Federation;
Chief Scientific Researcher, Institute of the Legislation and Comparative Jurisprudence at the Government of the Russian Federation
B. Cheremushkinskaya St., 34, 117218 Moscow, Russian Federation
Alexander Viktorovich Vilensky
Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor, Chief Scientific Researcher, Head of the Deparment of the Economy of Regions of the Centre of Federal Relations and Regional Development, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Nakhimovskiy Prosp., 32, 117281 Moscow, Russian Federation
Abstract. The article underlines the necessity of a targeted use of different types of “development institutes” as the tools of the federal politics of the regional development and the regulation of the spatial structure of the Russian economy. Different types of development institutes of both federal and regional levels together with their specific (innovative) functions are expected to play the role of the instrument of provision of the social and economic development of the territory of its localization. However this function of the institutes of development of the federal level has been carried out unsatisfactorily so far. Firstly there exists a considerable diversity of the institutes but there is no precise idea of their specialization on specific goals of the sectoral and spatial development and the principles of their territorial localization are not determined. Secondly there is no coordination concerning the placement and organization of the activity of these institutes of development together with other tools of the federal policy of regional development. The authors focus the attention on the necessity of the approval of the role of the Strategy of spatial development as a paper coordinating all the tools and the institutes of regional policy at the priority of targeting the solution of the basic task of the strategy i.e. relative leveling of the social and economic development of Russian regions. The inclusion of institutes of development into the list of the main actors of the spatial “slice” of the strategic planning, taking into account types of regions at the choice of tools of regional policy, a course towards the decentralization in the management of these institutes are the main conditions of the encouragement of their role and the importance for economic growth at the different levels of the economic system today.
Key words: strategic planning, regional development policy, development institutions, typology of regions, state programs, intergovernmental fiscal relations.
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