| Аннотация | Global economic challenges, along with a slowdown in the world economy growth, lead to the
need to consider foreign economic activity (FEA) as a factor affecting regional development. Due to nonresource
exports, both quantitative (increasing the exports volume, employment, investment inflows, tax
base) and qualitative tasks (diversifying the economy, increasing competitiveness and innovation,
production of high-value products) are solved. In this regard, a scientifically based assessment of the
FEA role in the regional development strategies is relevant which can be the basis for developing a set of
mechanisms and tools for the region’s foreign economic development. The purpose of the article is to
substantiate the FEA development impact on the regional development by identifying the reflection of
its prospects in the development strategies of Russian regions and different countries’ regions. The object
of the research is FEA of the selected regions of the Russian Federation, developed countries (Germany,
USA), and EAEU countries (Belarus and Kazakhstan). The scientific novelty is to identify the relations
between the degree of economic development and FEA countries, and the reflection of promising areas
and tools for the FEA development in the development strategies of their regions. The methodological
base is represented by the approaches to defining the determinants and principles of FEA support.
There were included the following methods: an indicators’ comparative analysis of the economic and
FEA development levels of the selected countries and the prospects for the FEA development (in areas,
including export of services; non-resource export; export diversification; etc.) in their regions’ strategies.
The analysis results confirmed the assumption that the reflection of the directions and tools of FEA
development is paid attention to both in developed and developing economies, but different countries
have their own specifics. The analysis allows taking into account the experience of developed countries
and leading exporters, as well as the EAEU members, when working out individual strategies and program
documents of the regions in the FEA field. |
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