Directions of State Regional Policy of Spatial Development
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International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology (IJEAT) ISSN: 2249-8958, Volume-8 Issue-5, June 2019 Directions of State Regional Policy of Spatial Development Dmitriy Vasilyevich Tyutin, Alexander Viktorovich Gorbatov, Aleksandr Olegovich Gomaleev, Natalia Vladimirovna Maslennikova, Lubov Konstantinovna Ulibina expectancy, parameters of improvements). Therefore, federal Abstract: The issues of spatial imbalances in the regional policy has adopted a stronger focus on the levelling-off of development of the Kaluga region are studied to substantiate the spatial differentiation in the levels of social, economic and directions of regional spatial development policy. The paper infrastructure development of the RF territories. proposes a multi-dimensional classification of municipal entities of the Kaluga region based on the municipal statistics of territorial development in terms of demography, social and II. PROBLEM SETTING economic status, infrastructure and investment. The conducted The purpose of the paper is to assess spatial imbalances in the classification helped to identify groups of municipal entities with similar parameters and issues of socio-economic development. To social, economic, infrastructure and investment development improve the performance of the regional spatial development of municipal entities of the Kaluga region and substantiate the policy in the Kaluga region, the directions of its implementation directions of regional policy in mitigating differentiation in are substantiated for each identified group of municipal entities. territorial development. The proposed solutions help to differentiate the instruments of the regional policy taking into account the specifics of the III. RESULTS development of municipal entities. Index Terms: regional development, spatial imbalances, In accordance with the Decree of the President of the RF "On regional spatial development policy, Kaluga region. Assessment of Performance of Government Authorities in the RF Federal Subjects" No. 548 dated 14 November 2017, I. INTRODUCTION ensuring positive steady change in line with the 15 The Decree of the President of the Russian Federation (RF) performance criteria of regional authority performance "On National and Strategic Development Objectives of the becomes the area of competence of regional authorities, RF until 2024" No. 204 dated 7 May 2018 [1] sets forth the which are required to promote quality development of objectives of breakthrough scientific, technological and territories of the RF subjects. This constitutes, in our view, a socio-economic development. The major set priorities of major managerial problem, as the majority of subjects of the socio-economic development of the RF and regions near-term RF are still haunted by the problems of spatial imbalances. include maintaining steady natural population growth, real The problem of spatial imbalances in regional development income growth, the improvement of living conditions, has numerous aspects to it, which is reflected in the works by ensuring high growth rates, productivity improvement and many researchers [3-9]. The cumulative nature of social employment support. The assessment of the governors' issues and environmental conditions, the state of social, performance will be carried out according to the amendments engineering, and general-purpose infrastructure of municipal introduced in the Decree of the President of the RF "On entities has led to the depopulation of the territories, Assessment of Performance of Government Authorities in the considerable declines in their investment, business and tourist RF Federal Subjects" No. 548 dated 14 November 2017 [2], attractiveness. A number of researchers make the point that taking into account 15 criteria of regional authority the current situation will require considerable effort from performance. The economic criteria include real average regional authorities to mitigate spatial differentiation and monthly salary and poverty levels. A significant economic balance socio-economic development within regions [10-14]. indicator is fixed capital investment. Non-economic This objective is equally significant for the regions with indicators include infrastructure (share of regional motorways unrealised growth potential and federal subjects holding compliant with the set requirements) and social (life leading positions in national rankings by various indicators of social, economic, innovation development, industry-level development (manufacturing, agriculture, tourism and Revised Manuscript Received on June 27, 2019. entertainment industry, logistics, digitalisation, etc.). Dmitriy Vasilyevich Tyutin, Kaluga Branch of RANEPA, Kaluga, Russia. According to A. I. Tatarkin, "In a market economic system, Alexander Viktorovich Gorbatov, Kaluga Branch of RANEPA, the territorial authorities inevitably turn into market agents Kaluga, Russia. and, in essence, into corporations designed, on the one hand, Aleksandr Olegovich Gomaleev, Kaluga Branch of RANEPA, Kaluga, Russia. to provide for the public needs Natalia Vladimirovna Maslennikova, North Caucasus Federal of people and commercial University (NCFU), Stavropol, Russia. entities with the works, Lubov Konstantinovna Ulibina, Kuban State Agrarian University named after I.T. Trubilin (FSBEI HE Kuban SAU), Krasnodar, Russia. services and other public Published By: Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering Retrieval Number: E7513068519/19©BEIESP 2064 & Sciences Publication Directions of State Regional Policy of Spatial Development benefits and, on the other hand, to exercise these obligations of assessment of the performance of regional authorities. The and powers based on their cost-effectiveness by introducing, latter were grouped as follows: sociodemographic indicators to a limited extent, payment for provision of public benefits (population numbers and density, natural population growth and services to people and businesses, by expanding the and balance); physical infrastructure indicators (road density, revenue base of the region through development of housing per capita, share of dilapidated housing, housing production capabilities, by facilitating the development of construction rates); social infrastructure indicators small and medium-sized businesses, and by increasing the (availability of preschool education institutions, cultural and employment of the population" [15, p. 18]. In recent years, the recreational organisations, medical staff sufficiency); Kaluga region has quite often appeared in various national financial and economic indicators (unemployment, business rankings close to the top and was praised by the national turnover, average fiscal capacity); indicators of investment leadership as of the leading regions. At the same time, the activities of the municipal entity. It is worth noting that none existing positive development trend in the region's social, of the above blocks of indicators was prioritised in shaping economic, investment and other areas has failed to cardinally the assessment algorithm. However, the indicators of the solve the problem of intraregional imbalances, and the sociodemographic block were used as the "entry" criterion in implementation of major investment projects, while bringing conducting the multi-dimensional classification. The considerable multiplication effects, has not covered the whole rationale for this choice is obvious: today, business capital territorial scope. In fact, no such objective was contemplated and development resources are redistributed to those in the implementation of these projects in the first place, as it destinations where the major competence is localised, that is, is hardly achievable. However, addressing socio-economic human capital, people. High population levels in an area balancing requires joint efforts of regional and municipal predetermine its growth potential and, at the same time, issues authorities to stimulate additional social and economic in terms of the quality of environmental conditions, the state activity in municipal entities in the Kaluga region. As to the of infrastructures, and job availability, including skilled jobs. current state of spatial imbalances, there is no crisis in the The modern-day population human flows are skewed toward Kaluga region in terms of the levels of territorial locations with comfortable and favourable conditions and differentiation. However, there are municipal entities with with the availability of relatively high-productive jobs. Vice high levels of socio-economic dynamics and weights of versa, high population levels in areas with inferior habitual localised resources as compared to other entities with low structure quality will exert a certain pressure on the social and demographic, infrastructure, investment and fiscal profiles. physical infrastructure, while the lack of jobs and the This paper proposes a multi-dimensional classification of subsequent stagnation of the territorial economic basis will municipal entities in the Kaluga region based on the bring down the government's potential in implementing the municipal statistics characterising to some extent the development projects. By this logic, the second criterion in preconditions and prospects of the regional authorities' the assessment of spatial imbalances is the block of performance in implementing the decree of May 2018. As development indicators of physical and social infrastructure. part of the multi-dimensional classification, municipal entities The data in Table 1 shows that, based on the