No 1 (2013)

The article is devoted to the construction and practical approbation of the ranking methodology of developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America on the basis of priority for the Russian Federation to the cooperation development in the space field. This paper is the second part of the article and reflects the results of the calculations based on statistics and on the examination of information about the considered countries. As a result of quantitative and qualitative analysis eight groups of basic indicators have been selected. These indicators have the influence on the rate of development of space industry in emerging countries and their involvement into cooperation with The Russian Federation. Using the principal component analysis eight sub-indexes and the integral index have been constructed. It is shown that China has the highest priority, and then follows India and Brazil. Five key for the cooperation development in space field countries from Asia, Africa and Latin America have been indicated based on the constructed integral index.

The authors analyze main factors influencing the choice of Russian — Ukrainian economic integration direction and prove the necessity of closer Russian — Ukrainian investment cooperation in a modern changing geoeconomic space. Specific causes of Russian -Ukrainian capital flows are characterized. The trends of mutual investment relations were brought to light. The economic sectors with most investments were emphasized. The authors trace future development of Russian — Ukrainian economic and investment relations in the system of the world integration processes.

The article discusses the prospects of business participation in the programs of international development assistance (IDA) in the context of access to the markets of developing countries, including Tropical Africa. It describes why emerging markets are attractive for the Russian companies. The analysis of the main forms of business participation in the programs of international assistance on bilateral (tied aid) as well as on multilateral basis (MDBs) is given.

The public private partnership is a basis of the theory of mixed economy. Transition to economy model with the developed institutional form of partnership is the most real option of an exit of Russia from crisis. Updating of various models of the partnership, connected with regional, branch features, mentality, an environment provides not only production, but also renders multiplicate economic effect, strengthens social stability. Scientific novelty of the executed research consists in creation of the concept of development of PPP institute in the conditions of increase of global and in-Russian transformation processes and justification of methods of the state support.

This article presents a comparative analysis of European and Russian banking systems. A short historic reference of Russian and European banking systems creation is given. This article also presents structural characteristics of Russian and EU’s banking systems. This article features data showing differences in scale (quantity of financial organizations and their labor; capital and reserves as well as assets of banks compared to GDP), differences in profitability (RoE, RoA and each worker’s marginal profit), differences in quality of financial mechanism and banking service (quality of credit mechanism and number of persons served by one bank). The results show a lag in Russian banking system development in comparison to European banking system.

In the article the global trends in the process of intellectualization of the economy, shows the process of economic globalization and the development of higher education and science, made aware that globalization is constantly decreasing particle material production and increasing particle services and creation of new knowledge, products, which is characterized as intellectual property; hence a need for internationalization of research activities, which includes two main components: the migration of scientists between the two countries — the creators of knowledge transfer and consistent part of the creation of technological knowledge of the countries — the recognized leaders in this field in the old quarter that are actively developing, studied the internationalization of education, which carried out by the export of education.

The article reveals the concept of infrastructure in light of different theoretical approaches, distinguishing its content and key features in order to determine the place of infrastructure in scientific theory and business activity. It is suggested to define infrastructure in two aspects: as economic category and as economic system. The above allows structuring existing definitions of infrastructure and justifying requirements to its functioning mechanism. Key features of infrastructure in construction are provided that allows suggesting author’s definition of infrastructure in construction as economic category and as economic system.