Headings of the journal
"Economics and Management"

Annotation: A number of states are already on the verge of exhausting the available possibilities for intra-basin and interbasin transfers of part of the river flow and rational water management of the territory. This forces us to start studying and developing water sharing projects based on interzonal (interstate) territorial transfers of part of the river flow. The analysis of the dynamics and forecasts of water consumption clearly indicate that the coming century will be characterized for humanity by the search for solutions to the problem of water resources, and will become for the world community a period of solving the problems of mutually beneficial sharing of water resources between states on the basis of large-scale territorial redistribution of water resources.

Annotation: The article describes the general characteristics of the world oil market, identifies the largest centers of international oil trade. The geographical structure of the world oil market has been studied and the leading countries have been identified in terms of production and consumption of oil. The balance of supply and demand has been determined. The analysis of economic indicators of the world oil market, such as the geographical structure and dynamics of the physical volumes of proven oil reserves, the geographical structure and dynamics of oil production for 2016–2020, was carried out. Since oil is the most traded commodity on the world market, the article describes the structure of world oil exports in 2016–2020, and also examines the dynamics of the value of international oil trade in 2016–2020. Based on the study, the authors proposed trends in the world oil market in the context of the participating countries.

Annotation: The subject of the study is the directions of digitalization in the European region. The mechanism of publicprivate partnership (PPP) as digitalization tool is also considered in the article. The purpose of the study is the investigation of digitalization areas and the development of digital technologies in the European Union (EU), including their role in the issues of the green economy creation. The research also systemizes forms of PPPs and their role in provision of sufficient digital technological independence of the European Union. The study is based on a comprehensive approach to the consideration of socio-economic problems of regional development of the EU, including a systematic comparative analysis, economic and statistical method. Experience of useful samples of public-private partnerships aimed at regional technological independence is herewith analyzed . As a result of the conducted research, the structure of the planned digital transformation of the region is determined, its main goals and objectives are highlighted, the forms of public-private partnerships designed to promote further digitalization in the EU are characterized, the role of planned innovations in the further socio-economic development of the region is studied. The study focuses on the aspects of integrated digitalization relevant to the Russian Federation and its potential partners and the corresponding PPP mechanisms.

Annotation: The relevance of the issue is determined by the importance of achieving sustainable development of the region without harming the environment. At the present stage, there are problems associated with environmental pollution, as well as with climate changes that are irreversible. In this regard, the views of scientists and practitioners should be directed towards the forming of a new model of economic growth without harming the environment, formed in the concept of sustainable development. The purpose of the presented research is to develop a methodology for assessing the level of sustainable development of regions and calculate the sustainable development index. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the development of an original author’s methodology for assessing the level of sustainable development of regions. The methodological tools used in the article include the application of a systematic approach, in which a set of methods and techniques was used: content analysis, statistical methods of analysis, generalization, rating, graphical and tabular methods of data visualization. As a result of the research, a methodology for assessing the level of sustainable development of Russian regions has been developed, a sustainable development index has been calculated, and the place of each region in the sociosphere-economy-technosphere-ecology system has been determined. The presented research results will be useful to public authorities for the forming of regional policy.

Annotation: The purpose of the study is to substantiate promising directions for further development of the management concept of economic competition. The relevance of the research is due to both the important role of the management concept in the modern theory of economic competition and the stagnation of its development, and the need to expand the range of the studied objects of managerial influence and detail the structure of the management process studied within this concept. The research was carried out by dialectical, systemic, comparative-analytical methods, methods of induction, deduction, scientific abstraction, normative, positive analysis and synthesis. The main results of the research are: a list of promising areas for further scientific research within the framework of the management concept of economic competition, the author’s definitions of the categories “competitive disadvantage of the socio-economic system”, “competitive potential of the socio-economic system”, “management of the competitive environment of the socio-economic system”, author’s classification of the types of competitive potential of the socio-economic system, as well as the author’s characteristic of the main stages and directions of the process of managing the competitive potential of the socio-economic system.