No 2 (2015)

The author analyzes development of «production ties» term and defines its meaning in modern economy, she also emphasizes main factors influencing production ties. Production cooperation is the most wide - spread and effective way of production ties of enterprises, it consolidates economic interests of economic entities of all levels. The author analyses main directions of Russian production ties development and defines production cooperation of Russia with other countries in the conditions of regional integration.

The article deals the issues connected with the functioning of global value chain in the automotive industry, which is developing in the sector during last 30 years. The authors pay their attention on the specific features of the structure in the automotive global value chain and its governance. The article stresses that there is a shift from a chain driven by producer to a chain driven by consumer, that could be explained the increasing competition in the world car market. The article also identifies some trends concerning relations between OEMs and their suppliers; these ties are becoming much more close and different level supplies are becoming responsible for different production functions with different levels of responsibility. The article also underlines new trends in geographical location of automotive industry with a special attention to Chinа and India role in the process. The article concludes that all the government support automotive industry in order to limit competition and support local producers during crisis.

The articles is set towards these goals - to explore the place and role of strategic planning in the implementation of infrastructure projects with the help of public-private partnerships in Africa. The article analyses the basic steps of strategic planning at the municipal level, including the identification of problems, identification of stakeholders, designed to solve these problems, obtaining consensus among the various sectors. Considered setting goals, case studies, improvement and coordination of the delivery of services involved in the planning of society and the private sector. Revealing the role of PPPs in infrastructure development and poverty alleviation in African countries.

This article discusses about methods and the importance of minimizing public debt - external and internal debts - for the development of the republic of Cote d’Ivoire. It also details factors which contribute to the growth of the public debt and proposes recommendations for its minimization. In the conclusion it concluded by explaining how the presence of a large amount of public debt led to a lack of resources for the development of the country. At the same time, in my opinion, the program to reduce public debt is yet to efficiently respond to challenges the country faces due to debt burden in order to foster sustainable economic and social development in the country.

Achievements of the Korean economy are the result of performance of the Korean innovation system. The article describes the path of national innovation system development of the Republic of Korea. The study identifies factors of the Korean success: close cooperation between the state, business and scientific community; leading role in the innovation process of small and medium-sized enterprises; specific forms of technology transfer; the creation of innovation clusters; strategic government regulation of the innovation system. However, the Korean innovation model has revealed its limitations: the necessity of further restructuring of chaebol, the paucity of venture capital institutions, the necessity of creation of innovative potential in many fields of science and technology. The basic lessons that can be learned from the experience of the Republic of Korea are formulated.

An estimation of airport infrastructure flooding has been done for the stationary levels of the sea-level rise (from 1 m to 65 m). It was found that airport network is situated close to the coastline and it is very sensitive to the sea-level rise. So the sea-level rise up to 1 m will lead to flooding of 7 airports (0,08%), and reduction of air traffic (passenger 3,5%, freight 9,9%). Further sea-level rise up to 6 m (in the present time the Global Surface Air Temperature is 0,8 °С higher then pre-industrial level) will lead to flooding of 80 airports (9,2%) and 13,6% air traffic reduction. The EU Strategy on adaptation to climate change assume that the global warming must be limited to below 2 °C above pre-industrial level, that within some ages will lead to the sea-level rise up to 15 m, this corresponds to flooding of 172 airports (19,9%), and reduction of air traffic (passenger 20,4%, freight 14,7%). The EU Strategy on adaptation to climate change does not assume the sea-level rise above 1 m, so in the near future that could lead to the huge economic losses.