Headings of the journal
"Economics and Management"

Annotation: The article gives an assessment of the effectiveness of implementing investment projects for import substitution in the territory of the region in 2018 with a view to increasing the international competitiveness of the Rostov region’s economy. For a long time, the so-called “restorative model” of economic development was functioning in Russia, based on the involvement of unused capacities and labor in production, as well as on the fast-growing external demand for Russian raw materials. In the aggregate, this determined the raw material orientation of Russian exports, high import dependence, technological backwardness and other problematic aspects of the country’s socioeconomic development. As a matter of fact the situation determines high relevance of the survey dedicated to find the ways to invest into import substitution projects on the territory of the region of Rostov, and to help to identify the elements able to impact on the development of the area, rather to increase international competitiveness of its economy. External geoeconomic and geopolitical challenges have a significant effect on bisiness activities of companies. At the same time the rapid increase of geoeconomic competition and geopolitical discrepancies transform not only the business traditions of the region, but seriously reduce the volume of international participation in it. Moreover, the facts mentioned above are extremely significant also out of inmediate context of export activity on world markets, especially if the region is already a subject of economic policy aimed to increase the competitiveness of local enterprises, science inrensity and fabrication of the products. Thus, the analysis of import substitution of economic, social, spatial imperatives of the development of the region is characterised by considerable relevance mostly under the circumstances of global uncertainty, and is a reason of application of various methods for assessing of the present and future of the area.

Annotation: Russian market of services today is vide and very competitive. The banks offer to clients the vide variety of products. At the same time, mobile banking is the most rapidly growing part of remote servicing. This article gives an anlysis of complex integration of innovation technologies in bank service. The authors specify advantages of mobile banking compared to the general services provided in the bank. In addition, described some modern trends in mobile banking functioning and provided brief application reviews of main financial players in Russia and abroad.

Annotation: The article considers the strategic planning in IFC to reduce the interest rate for pensioners, using the example of the company «Bystroedeni» (LLC) in the RZ Surgut, in order to raise the company’s rating, increase the credibility of the company among borrowers aged 55 to 70 years and to make it socially-oriented.

Annotation: This article is devoted to the development of methods for monitoring the implementation of programs of socioeconomic development of the regions in the conditions of active implementation of digital technologies and changes in this regard, the information basis for the assessment of indicators of implementation of strategies for the development of territories. The authors draw attention to the widespread use of rating methods for assessing the regions, which are used for various purposes as a comprehensive analysis of the state of Affairs in the regions, and to assess the investment climate or the quality of public administration at the level of a region. The article draws attention to the shortcomings of the methods used and proposes to make greater use of expert methods of evaluation and to introduce integrated performance indicators that would take into account a set of indicators and certain levels of their ranking. The article considers in detail the method of factor approach as an opportunity to take into account the impact of external and internal factors that affect the final results of the dynamics of the region, which is quite important in modern conditions with the unfavorable state of the external economic environment and accumulated during the economic crisis of 2014–2015 problems at the level of regional development.

Annotation: The article shows the influence of the specifics of the regional economy on the features of the social sphere of the Yamal-Nenets autonomous district through such indicators as unemployment, welfare, income distribution between households. The evaluation of the regional government policy on the development of the strategy of socio-economic development of the region. It is proposed to Supplement the policy of diversification of the regional economy with measures aimed at a gradual transition to a new economic structure that allows adapting to a rapidly changing market.