No 4 (2012)

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. The ranking methodology is based on a comprehensive analysis of a variety of factors which in the author’s opinion directly or indirectly affect the ability of Russian exports and the development of scientific, technical and industrial cooperation with the considered countries. The ranking system rests on eight pillars. The integrated index is calculated from these eight pillars and used to rank the countries. The paper consists of two parts: the first describes the methodological approaches to ranking countries on a single integrated index, the second shows the results of calculations based on the collected statistic and information.

The authors analyze investment activity of the American TNC’s for period of 2000—2010 to detect not only the formed tendencies of FDI flows and tendencies of US stock FDI, but also define the changes of the role of US TNC’s in the processes of international production. The first decade of new millennium was rather difficult for the world economy and particularly for the US economy, connecting with the financial-economic crisis. As an outcome of that crisis the role of American TNC’s began decline in a quick terms. But tendencies of American TNC’s role decline were also registered before crisis period. Such kind of results are registered both for the parent companies of US TNC’s as a whole, and for the leading American TNC’s. In some degree US TNC’s affiliates have progress abroad, but it is rather small now.

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of innovation in agriculture in developing countries. Reviews current methods of “Earth’s revolution” in developing countries, cooperation of farms, increased the role of trade capital in agriculture, especially the new institutional mechanism for implementing innovations in agriculture, the intensification of the state’s role in conducting agricultural reforms, etc.

In the article the approach is a portfolio of securities of a commercial bank, based on the use of the basic postulates of the classical theories of portfolio investment. The stages and the results of a portfolio of the bank based on an assessment of its profitability and risk of the proposed method, proposed recommendations for improving the investment strategy of commercial banks. The proposed approach to building the portfolio of securities, on the one hand, based on generally accepted theories of portfolio investment, and, on the other hand, takes into account the attractiveness of financial assets, estimated by using various indicators — earnings per share, capitalization, etc.

Work is devoted to the analysis of transformation of an exchange turn of currency in Russia, the admission to participation in the auction of the non-bank organizations, such as broker companies and to the analysis of structural changes in the exchange technologies caused by the admission of a new class of participants on the currency auction. An important aspect of these changes is the assessment of ways of control of risks of clients at mass service in the currency market. The question of formation of technology of the central contractor according to transactions on currency, and in the near future and in stock market with application of the delayed delivery and partial predeposition of assets, an assessment of risks of the central contractor is separately investigated.

The problems associated with the formation in manufacturing companies, vertically integrated structures that combine into a whole entire technological chain of industrial businesses. Formulated a conclusion that access to progressive technologies must be implemented on the basis of advanced technologies and forming the basis for their new industrial and economic systems of innovation types.