Exterritorial and local content of regional development

Abstract

The article shows that the observed exacerbating problem of balancing budgets in many Russian regions, primarily those specializing in mining, is associated with an objective trend toward increasing the importance of the exterritoriality factor, which is characterized by both budgetary and corporate projections. In this regard, not only the fair distribution of effect produced by the activity of exterritorial agents is relevant, i.e., large corporations, but also the participation of these agents in the development of territories where they conduct their economic activity. The example of the Siberian Federal District is used to show that over the last decade, the role of exterritorial factors, primarily related to changes in tax legislation and the activity of major mining corporations, has been increasing noticeably. Analysis of the dynamics and structure of revenues generated by the largest companies makes it possible to quantify the extent of the increase in exterritoriality as well as the observed and expected consequences of this trend for the development of resource regions and individual territories. It is proposed to alleviate the negative consequences by the switching to new regional policy principles and, in particular, to the regulated formation of local content in regions hosting large-scale natural resource development projects.