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Russia National Human Development Report Russian Federation 2006/2007 Russia’s Regions: Goals, Challenges, Achievements Russia National Human Development Report Russian Federation 2006/2007 Russia’s Regions: Goals, Challenges, Achievements The National Human Development Report 2006/2007 for the Russian Federation has been prepared by a team of Russian experts and consultants. The analysis and policy recommendations in this Report do not necessarily reflect the views of the UN system and the institutions by which the experts and consultants are employed. Chief authors: Sub-faculty of Geography Department at Irkutsk State Prof. Sergei N. Bobylev, Dr.Sc. (Economics), Department of University (Box. Irkutsk Region) Economics at Lomonosov Moscow State University Albina A. Shirobokova, Ph.D. (Economics), Associate Professor Anastassia L. Alexandrova, Ph.D. (Economics), Executive of Sociology and Social work Department at Irkutsk Director at the Institute for Urban Economics State Technical University; President of Baikal Regional Prof. Natalia V. Zubarevich, Dr.Sc. (Geography), Department Women’s Association ‘Angara’ (Box. Irkutsk Region) of Geography at Lomonosov Moscow State University; Prof. Lidiya M. Shodoyeva, Ph.D. (Economics), Department Head of Regional Programs at the Independent Institute of Management at Gorno-Altai State University (Box. Altai for Social Policy Republic) Taiciya B Bardakhanova, Ph.D. (Economics), Chief of Authors: Economics of Environmental Management and Tourism Prof. Natalia V. Zubarevich (Chapters 1–3, 5–7. Survey of Department at the Ministry of Economic Development Federal Districts. Chapter 9) and External Relations of the Republic of Buryatia (Box. Ivan Y. Shulga, Ph.D. (Economics), Consultant at the Republic of Buryatia) Department of Social Programmes of the World Bank Elena A. Armand, Ph.D. (Geography), Head of Environment (Russia) (Chapter 4) and Sustainable Development Department at UNDP Alexander Y. Surinov, Dr.Sc. (Economics), Deputy Director of (Russia) (Box. Lake Baikal) Federal State Statistics Service (Chapter 8) Marina V. Udachina, Ph.D. (Economics), Head of Regional Prof. Lidiya.P. Bogdanova, Dr.Sc. (Geography), Department Development Department at Delegation of Sakhalin of Socio-Economic Geography at Tver State University Region Administration in Moscow (Box. Sakhalin Region) (Box. Tver Region) Alexey A. Kasprzhak, First Deputy Head of Education Maps: Sergey G. Safronov, Ph. D. (Geography), Senior Research Department of Tver Regional Administration (Box. Tver Fellow at Geography Department at Moscow State University Region) Marina L. Vavilina, Head of Social Research Programmes at Materials for boxes on Belgorod, Samara, Tyumen, Tomsk, Sakha Komi Republic Chamber of Women; Consultant at UNDP Republic (Yakutia), Khabarovsk regions are provided by gov- Regional Center project in Komi Republic (Box. Komi ernmental authorities of constituent entities of the Russian Republic) Federation. Konstantin A. Gulin, Ph.D. (History), Chief Analyst of Vologda Scientific Coordination Center at Central Economic Materials for the box "Support to the Local Governance Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Reform" in Siberia are based on results on the joint project Sciences (Box. Vologda Region) by UNDP and the Ministry of Regional Development and pre- Kirill G. Chagin, Project Director at the Institute for Urban pared by the Center for Fiscal Policy. Economics (Moscow) (Box. Perm Region) Alexander G. Druzhinin Dr.Sc. (Geography), Head of the Human Development Report 2006/2007 for the Russian Department at North Caucasus Institute of Economics Federation/ Ed. by Prof. S.N. Bobylev and A.L. Alexandrova; transla- tion from Russian by D. Dynin, M. Satterwaite; editing in English by and Social Research, Rostov State University (Box. Rostov Ben W. Hooson. Layout design by LEBRAND agency, – Moscow, All Region) World, 2007 – 132 pp., incl. tables, figures and boxes. Nickolay V. Gontar’, Ph.D. (Geography), Senior Researcher at North Caucasus Institute of Economics and Social Readers are invited to inspect the latest Human Development Research at Rostov State University (Box. Rostov Region) Report for the Russian Federation. National reports such as this Olga A. Alexandrova, Ph.D. (Economics), Senior Researcher at are published on the initiative of the United Nations Development the Institute of Socio-Economic Population Issues of the Programme (UNDP) in many countries of the world. Global reports Russian Academy of Science (Box. Adygeya Republic) are also brought out annually. The reports are composed by teams of Vyacheslav A. Vashanov, Dr.Sc. (Economics), Deputy Chair independent experts. of Research Council on Production Forces (Box. Chechen The central theme of the present Report is encapsulated in its Republic) title, 'Russia's Regions: Goals, Challenges, Achievements'. Emphasis Prof. Magomed M. Gasanov, Dr.Sc. (History), Pro-rector at is put on the diversity of development priorities and of the means, which different regions have at their disposal for improving quality of Dagestan State University (Box. Dagestan Republic) life. The Report looks at the most successful examples of government Prof. Natalia Y. Vlasova, Dr.Sc. (Economics), Department programmes at regional level for promoting attainment by regions of Regional and Municipal Economics at Ural State and by the country as a whole of the Millennium Development Goals Economics University (Box. Sverldlovsk Region) adapted for the Russian Federation. The Report also includes a com- Natalia M. Sysoyeva, Dr.Sc. (Geography), Chief of Economic parative analysis of current Human Development problems in Russia's Geography Laboratory at the V.B. Sochava Geography regions and of the indicators used for their assessment. Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy The Report is intended for use by senior administrative person- of Science; Head of Economy and Social Geography nel, political scientists, teachers, scientific researchers and students. ISBN 978-5-7777-0401-6 © UNDP, 2007 Human Development Report 2006/2007 for the Russian Federation Russia The United Nations Development Programme in the Russian Federation expresses its sincere gratitude to the sponsors of the 2006/2007 Human Development Report for the Russian Federation: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) World Health Organization (WHO) United Nations Information Center (UNIC) he authors express their sincere gratitude to the Resident Representative; Edem Bakhshish — Assistant T heads and staff of the Department of International Resident Representative; Liliana N. Proskuryakova — Organizations (DMO) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Programme Officer; Victoria K. Zotikova — Communication the Russian Federation: Alexander V. Konuzin — Director Analyst; Natalia V. Voronkova — Programme Associate; of the Department of International Organizations (DMO); and Dmitry S. Mariassin — UN Coordination Analyst. Michael E. Savostianov — Deputy Director of DMO; Great help in preparation of the Report was provi- Alexander S. Alimov — Head of the UN Technical ded by Plenipotentiaries of the President of the Russian Assistance Section of DMO and the Project National Federation in Federal Districts, Heads of administra- Director; and Anna N. Spirina, Attache. Thanks also to tions in subjects of the Russian Federation, and staff of the leadership of the Centre of Strategic Research (CSR): regional ministries and administrations, who provided Mikhail E. Dmitriev — President of the CSR; Ivan A. information and statistical data used in the Report. Ognev — Director of the CSR Regional Cooperation The authors also wish to thank all experts of the Department. And, finally, thanks to leadership and mem- UN system in Russia who submitted their views, and bers of the UNDP Russia team: Marco Borsotti — UNDP participants of Hearings on the Report drafts for their Resident Representative; Kaarina Immonen — Deputy constructive comments. for their neighbors. At the same time, by covering all of Dear Readers! Russia's seven Federal Districts, the Report aims to pro- vide decision makers at federal level with data, analysis am proud to present to you the 11th annu- and policy recommendations that could feed into the I al National Human Development Report for the emerging regional policy, which is now acknowledged Russian Federation published by the United Nations to be a cornerstone of Russia's future development. Development Programme (UNDP). Last but not least, the Report represents a con- UNDP is an organization striving to facilitate glob- tinuation of the work started in 2005 when the National al knowledge exchanges, supporting governments Human Development Report analyzed the Millennium around the world in their efforts to improve perfor- Development Goals (MDGs) adapted for Russia. As an mance of their economies and social welfare of their important global monitoring tool, MDGs only make citizens. Our main challenge in Russia is to be instru- sense if customized to a country's specific context. mental to the complex transition process — both in For a large and diverse country like Russia, the key terms of institutional transition to an internationally social challenges in health, access to education, gen- competitive market economy and in terms of transition der equality, environment, etc., cannot be understood from