Vol 27, No 1 (2019)

The article discusses the effects of concentration of students in the system of higher education in the regions of Russia and methodological approaches to their assessment. The issues of accessibility and inequality in higher education are increasingly being put on the agenda by a number of researchers. Historically, universities are located in large cities, new universities also follow this example, thereby enhancing the effect of concentration. The policy of the Ministry of Education and Science and Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science, aimed at combating low-quality programs and universities, has led to an increase in the concentration of universities in major cities. This fact is confirmed by the calculated Theil and Herfindahl - Hirschman indices and the coefficient of variation. Thus, we can talk about the formation of university oases and deserts. According to performed research, more than half of the territory of the Russian Federation constitutes an educational (university) desert.

Human capital is an important factor of economic growth, as has been underlined by recent theoretical models. The main goal of this article is to elucidate the relationship between human capital and dynamics of economic growth in the European Union (EU). For the purposes of this article human capital is defined as knowledge, skills as well as other individual factors which lead to higher productivity. Therefore, the greatest attention is focused on the multi-dimensional assessment of human capital in the processes of economic development of the European countries. A detailed evaluation of human capital in the EU is represented at interregional and international levels. Furthermore, author suggests a guidance for designing and planning strategies aimed at sustainable economic development by using the model predictive control algorithms.

The main approaches to understanding the essence of “stability of banking system” are conducted in the article. The basic principles are also given, inherent in a stable banking system. Further, the main factors affecting the stability of the banking system are considered. The article determined the components of ensuring the assessment of the bank’s financial stability. The basic principles of effective banking supervision are the actual minimum standard for prudent regulation and supervision of banks and banking systems. Initially issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in 1997, they are used by countries as a guide to assess the quality of their surveillance systems and to determine future work towards achieving a basic level of rational oversight practices. The core principles are also used by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in the context of the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) to assess the effectiveness of banking supervisory systems and country practices.

Whether HIV/AIDS affects agricultural production in Cameroon is purely an empirical issue due to controversy in results over the years. This study has as objectives to assess factors that affect the prevalence of HIV/AIDS and to explore the influence of HIV/AIDS on agricultural production in Cameroon. The 2007 Household Consumption Survey is use as our source of data together with other variables imported into the survey data from the ministries in charge of public health and agriculture. Estimates are obtained using instrumental variables two-stage least squares regression method. The result shows that the prevalence of HIV/AIDS pandemic in Cameroon is strongly influence by level of education, age, occupation and environmental characteristics, while the main result reveals that the prevalence of HIV/AIDS correlates negatively with agricultural production. These results have implications for agricultural policy instruments that could offer interventions to HIV/AIDS affected persons to mitigate the negative effect on agricultural production.

The paper analyzes the changes in the Russian pharmaceutical market and discusses the prospects and trends of the Russian pharmaceutical industry. The purpose of the work is to identify the main directions and problems of development and functioning of the pharmaceutical industry of the Russian Federation. Over the past few years, the state has created a strategy for the development of pharmaceuticals, which can bring the industry to a new level. However, existing problems and the lack of an integrated approach hamper the fulfillment of this task. Based on the analysis, the author provides a list of recommendations to improve the efficiency of the functioning and solving the main problems of the pharmaceutical industry, special attention is paid to increasing the investment potential, strengthening the legal framework of the industry, and the importance of increasing the innovative potential of the industry.

A comprehensive study of regional processes implies a qualitative analysis of indicators over time, which is necessary not only to identify current trends, but also to make forecasts that are used in the development of regional development strategies and programs. In order to study the development of the city of Sevastopol on the basis of statistical data on the state of the economy in the Ukrainian and Russian periods, as well as determine the possibility of their use for making forecasts, it is necessary to solve the issue of homogeneity of the series of economic indicators. The existing criteria for verifying the homogeneity of data are not applicable to the solution of the issue of compatibility of multidimensional series belonging to different time intervals. The article proposes the use of exploratory factor analysis to solve this problem. However, the lack of statistical data leads to a degeneration of the matrix of pairwise correlations of economic indicators. To obtain estimates of the parameters of the factor model, a generalized inverse matrix is used, which is obtained as a result of a matrix iterative procedure. Exploratory factor models for the Ukrainian and Russian periods of Sevastopol have fundamental differences, and the corresponding multidimensional series cannot be combined for a holistic study of economic processes in the region.

Spatial saturation of a city of consumer product and services leads to the formation of territorial systems of servicing, where service spheres is interacting actively, to complement each other and competing for the consumer. This process covers all of residential area, it differentiats between areas of the city, stands out the centers and complexes of service. They performs only regional function in some urban areas, but there are centers of educational, medical and merchant services citywide and regional significance. It was allocated areas by the nature of the service of the population, security of services, comfort conditions for people’s lives with consideration the complex development social infrastructure and provision of public services in territory of Saransk city. These areas has relatively high complexity of territorial organization of social infrastructure and high endowment the population of services combined with a satisfactory level of comfort of people living conditions; with average complexity of the territorial organization of social infrastructure and high complexity of population services in combination with a low level of comfort of living conditions (influenced by industrial enterprises and highways); with relatively low complexity of territorial organization of social infrastructure and low complexity of population services in combination with a satisfactory level of comfort of living conditions - the private sector of one-story buildings, old buildings. Area has the average complexity of the territorial organization social infrastructure and average endowment of the population services in combination with a satisfactory level of comfort of living conditions for residential peripheral districts of Saransk city. The average complexity of the territorial organization social infrastructure and average endowment of population services in combination with a low level of comfort of living conditions determines to the districts remote from the centre of the city and located in the former industrial plants. The existence of these areas confirms concentric development model spatial structure of Saransk city.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the interrelationship between tourism and migration by the case study on Russian-speaking tourism phenomena observed in Nha Trang, Vietnam. The case challenges us to reexamine our static interpretations of tourism/migration concepts and to focus on the interpenetration of them. This paper tries to educe the multiple intermediate forms of human mobility that go beyond the simple framework of binominal confrontation between tourism and migration.

The article deals with the external and internal barriers and the results of the impact of such restrictions on the development of the innovation process in the oil and gas complex of Russia, as well as an objective assessment of the current situation in the field of innovations in the oil and gas industry. The aim of the study is to analyze the current barriers and opportunities to overcome them on the way to unlocking the potential of Russian import substitution programs, as well as the introduction of new technologies in the oil and gas industries. The study is based on the hypothesis that process innovations in the oil and gas sector have an obvious impact not only on the final results of specific companies in the industry, but also on the overall state of the national economy. Today we can observe the process of transition of the Russian economy to an innovative way of development. Such a transformation is of great importance for the further development of the country, and the strategic directions of transition to an innovative type of economic development were identified in the Concept of long-term socio-economic development in 2020. One of the long-term goals was to increase the share of innovation in the economic growth of the Russian Federation. The process of innovation in enterprises is usually long-term and involves some barriers that require systematization and substantive consideration. Thus, the article assesses the potential economic damage from the existing barriers to the innovative development of the oil and gas sector. The analysis of the sanctions pressure of Western countries on the Russian oil and gas complex companies and the effect of sanctions restrictions in the long term. The scientific base of the work is based on the data of state statistics, analytical data of fuel and energy complex companies, foreign sources, as well as on the assessments of independent experts.