Vol 27, No 4 (2016)

The article examines the main factors that shaped the negative macroeconomic trends in the Russian economy in 2013–2016. The author estimates the current potential of long-term economic growth and changes compared to the situation after the crisis of 2008–2009. Requirements for a promising model of funding economic growth are formed.

The author uses his extensive experience as a Chairman of the Board of Promstroibank of the Soviet Union to analyze the main mistakes of reforms in the Soviet economy during the 1960s, the groundless economic measures of perestroika in the 1980s, serious drawbacks of radical market reforms that started in the 1990s, and their effect on the modern state of the Russian economy.

The article addresses comparative models of the development prospects of the nuclear power industry under the conditions of a specified scenario of growth in the total electricity production in the context of market pricing and target cross subsidies aimed at reducing the price of energy.

The article is devoted to analyzing the functioning of the sector under the conditions a decline in economic activities, the possibilities of the formation of service products on the market of transport services, problems of the cooperation of railways with seaports, and peculiarities of their operation in the range outbound directions of the network, as well as development prospects of the railway transport in the economic and geopolitical processes in the country and world.

The article shows the importance of assessing the effectiveness of government programs due to the increasingly widespread use of the program approach in the system of public administration, strategic planning, and the formation of budgets at all levels. The problems and the possibilities of assessing the effectiveness of government programs, “Socioeconomic Development of the Far East and the Baikal Region” and “Socioeconomic Development of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation up to 2020” have been considered.

Assessments of the level of interregional differences by per capita GRP in current and constant prices are presented in the article. The tendencies of inequality in economic development of the regions of Russia in 1990–2013 have been studied.

The article considers the state of Russia’s housing stock and peculiarities of existing schemes of accumulating finances for a major overhaul of apartment houses. The questions of the efficiency of the use of funds attracted from various sources of financing, and the social consequences of increase in population’s expenses for housing and communal services due to the introduction of mandatory payments for major overhaul have been discussed. An alternative way to finance the major overhaul has been proposed.

Based on the studies of data for the Moscow region for 2001–2014, this paper proposes a method for assessing the long-term dynamics of labor commuting according to the dynamics of its key factors, including the population’s income, the cost of housing, and the cost of intraregional travels. It has been shown that these parameters did not undergo radical changes in the studied period: this indicates the stability of the structure and dynamics of labor commuting in the Moscow region. The forecast for the development of the situation in the near future has been discussed.