Nº 11 (2023)

The article examines modern problems of healthcare financing, their importance increasing in the context of new challenges associated with the current socio-economic and political situation, which makes doubtful the possibility of a significant increase in public funding. At the same time, healthcare costs should be considered as a health determinant, since their size has a positive effect on population life expectancy at birth. The article analyzes possible additional mechanisms that can be used to increase healthcare financing, examining their positive and negative aspects, including voluntary health insurance, sin taxes, co-payments for medical services. The author concludes that it is necessary to take into account both purely fiscal and social and ethical considerations when choosing health care financing mechanisms, as well as their influence on behavior of citizens.

The article discusses various aspects of the reproduction of human potential by the modern education system in Russia and other countries. The author presents a theoretical overview of the positions of researchers writing about human potential, its formation and development, and the influence of the organization of the educational process on it. The author analyses the volumes of current and recent education financing in different countries, trends related to the financing of higher education, and the number of students. The importance of the development of lifelong education for human potential and the features of its financing are considered.

The article defines the features of the formation of the ICT sector in Russia, analyzes the structure of resource provision and the dynamics of development of ICT activities, and assesses the impact of significant macroeconomic events against the background of general economic dynamics. Based on the identified features, key economic parameters are determined, bottlenecks and growth points for ICT activities identified.

This article analyzes the problems of cost optimization and ways to improve efficiency in household services. In this article, the author has developed scientific-practical suggestions and recommendations aimed at the problems of optimal planning of the activities of the Samsung company, which provides household services to consumers located in the city of Samarkand, based on which, as a method of analysis, the Simplex optimization method has brought out the possibilities of optimizing the costs of the enterprise providing household services. It has been scientifically proven that the application of this optimization method among subjects operating in the field of household services serves to increase the efficiency of the system in the case of determining costs in advance, saving and determining the optimal direction.

The article analyzes the international aspect of China's policy banks` activities – the Export-Import Bank of China (Eximbank of China) and the Agricultural Development Bank of China (ADBC). Considering the decisions of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China including emphasizing the importance of further expanding of “external world openness”, promotion of “high-quality development of the Belt and Road”, improving the quality of trade cooperation, as well as "priority of agricultural development" and poverty alleviation the Banks' role as tools for solving the export-import operations financing (the Eximbank of China) and “Sanong” (Three Rural Issues) agrarian problem (ADBC), financing development remains relevant. The article concludes that in the 14th Five Year Plan (2021-2025), there is an expansion of the Eximbank of China and ADBC`s interaction with the ASEAN Member States and Africa, including financing of infrastructure projects and agricultural sector, development of green technologies through special bonds issuing.