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The paper suggests and tests the methodology for quantitative evaluation of sustainability of a regional socio-economic system development. More precise attention is paid to the role that ICT and innovation dynamic factors play in the process of regional development. The research hypothesis: there is a significant probability of the Russian regional economic systems’ shift to the knowledge-based economy mode, that stands on several social development determinants, mainly human capital and innovation. The task of q...

As the importance of tourism is increasing, ever more states from Europe and not only are using strategic branding and a variety of marketing means to attract a growing number of tourists. However, destinations are among the most difficult entities to market. Considering the importance of a clear marketing strategy and proper images and slogans used, the paper aims to identify the destination personality, see whether Romania’s official website can have an effect on the image of the country and if it complies with ...

This paper deals with the topics of economic situation of families and the attitudes of respondents to the role of the state in social politics and social justice as the divergence factors influencing the choices of leisure-time activities in the lives of people. Our intention is to present the results of our own research which was carried out in the form of a questionnaire survey in 2016. One of its main objectives was to find out whether the economic situation of respondent's families and their attitudes to soci...

This article aims to identify and evaluate Polish achievements in implementing sustainable development in the context of Goal 12 of the 2030 Agenda, that is, creating patterns of sustainable consumption and production. The current set of synthetic substantive and complementary indicators, established by the UNO, were used to measure the progress of this implementation. The research period covers the period 2010–2016. The authors analyzed legal acts, institutional reports, statistical data, dynamics and ratio analy...

The assessment of the road infrastructure projects are based on life cycle costs, which consist of capital and social costs. Social costs are monetized negative impacts of users, environment and society. At present, a lot of tools exist for economic efficiency assessment of road projects. However, there are some differences in distribution and valuation of individual social costs components. This distribution depends on used assessment tools. The valuation of economic efficiency of road section project I/72 Zbojsk...

The cluster approach as an instrument of consolidation of the existing advantages of economic entities is designed to solve several existing problems of the Russian economy. These are equalization of the existing imbalance of regional economic development, giving additional impetus to the development of the innovation sector, etc. The decision of the working group on the development of public-private partnership in the field of innovation at the Government Commission on high technologies and innovations of 22.02.2...

The article critically analyzes the established, generally accepted approaches to study a state of competition based on market concentration index. These indicators have such obvious advantages as relative simplicity of their determining and comprehensible interpretation of the content. However, they also have some fundamental drawbacks as follows: the use of stringent, frequently unreasonable threshold values for obtaining final research findings about the state of competition in any commodities market, the inabi...

In the Russian economy, there is a growing staff shortage, among the key reasons of which are 1) decline and aging of population; 2) growing structural deformation of labor market; and 3) preservation of labor-intensive type of economy. Effective regulation of the labor market in Russia demands consideration its economy taking into account the heterogeneity of labor formed through the processes of population reproduction and migration. For this purpose, we develop a model that allows forecasting development of ski...

In the article the authors analyze the problem of modernization in Russia, which is currently one of the most important factors of economic development. Modernization is considered as a macro-process of transition from the traditional society to the modern one, which supposes qualitative change of the whole way of life of the country. Studies have shown that society has different views on the concept of the essence of modernization. Many members of society consider this term quite narrowly, most often understandin...

The universal right to travel, alongside with the right of developing one’s personality – in addition to the right to rest and enjoy relaxation – as an expression of the universal human rights – form the fundamental reason for social tourism. The main objective of this paper is to define social tourism, which through the objectives, population targets and achievements thus far obtained, is seen as one of the most important vectors that bring these rights in practical application. Within this approach, social touri...

The former socialist countries that joined the European Union have since managed to reduce the distance of wealth separating them from the richest countries of this bloc, albeit at varying degrees and pace. In the last few years, the so-called middle income trap, which may pose a threat to EU-member post-socialist countries, is attracting more and more attention. Although this concept has many definitions, their common thread is the exhaustion by states falling into such a trap of current simple development factor...

One of the fastest growing sectors, the creative economy, contributes to the growth of local, regional and national economies, both through revenue generation and job creation. The study aims to analyze the dynamic of the creative economy at the level of the territorial systems, structured by the main creativity poles in Romania. Quantification of the role of creative economies in the economic profile was achieved by creating a database, at the level of administrative-territorial unit, with the main economic indic...

Increasing disparities of development are a characteristic of the countries of Eastern Europe. Understanding the mechanisms that lead to the amplification of these phenomena, is a central topic of scientific research in the area of territorial management. The study aims to develop a new methodology to analyze the concentration trend of the poorest administrative units from Romania, the results obtained contributing to a superior understanding of a complex of determinants of polarized development. The analysis inte...

Japanese tourists are increasingly more interested and travel around the Baltic Sea countries including Latvia, Estonia and Finland. Compared to Central Europe and West Europe, the Baltic Sea region is safer and offers varied tourism opportunities. High potential exists in the Japanese market for Latvia, Estonia and Finland, but exploitation requires development, redesign/adaptation and promotion of suitable products which take account of Japanese customs, culture, language and expectations. The challenges on the ...

The paper offers an analysis of the influence of the population ageing on the social insurance company expenditures in the Slovak Republic Regions. The explored dimensions comprise old age economic dependency index and ageing index. The population ageing represents a major issue for the social insurance system in the future. The methodology employed for the carried out analysis is the analysis of sensitivity in a form of the regression analysis for the panel data. The territorial aspect of the regression model is ...

Addressing urgent market problems in the course of implementation of the need to find business opportunities in today's economic reality actualizes the study of management marketing imperatives as basic requirements, underlying market growth of business structure. The necessary conditions for effective market management of business development process is implemented taking into account the need for harmonious interaction with consumers in the framework of the doctrine of consumer needs priority. The purpose of thi...

Through the fact that capitalize the resources and local products, and combines two activities, agriculture as main activity and the tourism as a complementary activity, the profitability of agrotourism activity is high, being a chance of alternative incomes for rural areas, especially for those from the mountain area. Practicing agrotourism ensures the sustainability of the rural area due to the fact that it follows the encouraging of the practice of traditional activities in rural communities, stopping land aban...

This work represents a theoretical analysis of a quite complex problem that involves economic activity process of an accommodation structure and the impact it has within the territory where implanted, trying to observe the effects they may generate on the local economy. A first step in the analysis of the economic effects that can have an accommodation unit on the local territorial system was an extensive literature review of some economical and geographical works. Also in achievement the work I used the analysis ...

For a long period of time, the main trading partners of Canada are the United States and Mexico under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). But in recent years, Canada has significantly expanded its trade cooperation not only with the countries of the European Union (EU), but also with other states, for example, with China, Japan, South Korea and India. The article examines the dynamics of foreign trade turnover, exports and imports of Canada with major trading partners; countries that play the most imp...

The involvement of the creativity and the cultural values which are specific to the ethnicities living in the region of Oltenia, Romania, in the local economic development of the rural communities of Romania, regardless of the administrative unit they belong to, have faced, in the last years, issues of economic nature. The study of vines which comes in support of the remedy of this situation by searching solutions springing from the traditional culture and creativity of the ethnic communities. Starting from this i...

The article is devoted to the analysis of the concepts of the creatosphere and post-Fordism in the context of the creative and cultural economies of the Arctic. Interest in the Arctic space has recently been linked to the strategic interests of countries. Management paradigms of thinking - the creatosphere and post-Fordism - are proposed. The author defines the creatosphere. The creatosphere is when, with the help of knowledge, new intellectual values, innovations, humanitarian technologies are created that improv...

This article focuses on development and design of class of the counterparty reliability recognition system which constitutes verification process of potential or currently existing counterparty of any scale and form of ownership. The Relevance of the development depends on organizations’ necessity for understanding of due diligence indicators in contract award. The target audience of the program is small and medium enterprises of Russian Federation and individual entrepreneurs who can gain additional competitive a...