№ 6 (2023)

Based on a detailed comparative analysis of the concepts of "economic growth" and "economic development", the article provides arguments in favor of the thesis that from the post-default period to the present day, the Russian economy demonstrates not only steadily fading average annual GDP expansion rates, but also the so-called "impoverishing growth", "growth without development". The leading characteristic of the low-quality growth is recognized as the long-term evolution of the domestic economy in the vein of the historically futile natural resource export model, which, through the mechanisms of the "Dutch disease" and regular fluctuations in global energy prices, moves in an excessively cyclical form, inevitably making the socio-economic development of the country unstable. Significant determinants of its unstable growth, carefully concealed by the methods of misleading macroeconomic statistics presented in the article, are also uncovered being the dominance of extensive factors over the intensive ones associated with increasing macroeconomic efficiency and achieving accumulation rates close to the optimum values, the socially conflicting nature of GDP growth, accompanied by the excessive income inequality, both in terms of income and property, even in the relatively favorable conditions compared to global practice, and the resource-intensive and wasteful nature of the dynamics of the national economy.

The article summarizes the results of an empirical research aimed at determining the reasons and motives of economic agents to participate in sharing economy. The opinions of the respondents who used the services of sharing economy have been classified and analyzed. The study confirms the importance of personal and external factors in the preference for the use of sharing economy services, as well as in determining future trends in the development of sharing economy services in Russia.

Using statistical data and the employers’ survey results, the article analyzes the dynamics and the scope of shift employment in the regions of the Russian Arctic zone, as well as classification of shift workers by professional status and economic sector. Based on the analysis results, the opportunities and threats associated with the use of shift work in the Arctic territories are summarized.

The article discusses the main stages of creating and implementing a strategy for building a sustainable economy in the Republic of Korea. The scope of implementation of the principles of sustainable development and the role of the state in this process are analyzed. The financial and institutional drivers of sustainable growth of South Korean economy are determined. The objectives and target indicators for the implementation of the New Green Course in South Korea for the period 2020-2025 are shown.