Headings of the journal
"Economics and Management"

Annotation: Practice shows that not all managers are inclined to think that staff training is an integral part of the development of an organization, and most importantly, that this should reproduce and accumulate intangible, human capital. The relevance of the research topic is that now the main factors of competitiveness of organizations is the availability of qualified labor, the degree of its motivation, the distribution of responsibility and the form of work that determine the efficiency of personnel use. In modern conditions, the creative abilities of a person are still underused, and not enough attention is paid to meeting the social needs of employees through vocational training. The results of the work give grounds for such conclusions that the search for effective ways of increasing the efficiency of personnel management necessitates the use in the management system not only of organizational and administrative, financial and managerial levers, commercial programs, but also an expansion of the practice of using scientifically grounded theoretical and methodological approaches to effective staffing through staff training in business schools.

Annotation: The relevance of the chosen topic is that oil is of key importance for the economy of Kazakhstan. In the future, Kazakhstan intends to increase production at the Kashagan and Tengiz fields. Kazakhstan’s oil and gas industry can be attributed to one of the leading sectors of the economy. Today, the dynamics of the development of the Kazakh gas industry, where the national operator is KazTransGas JSC, is more successful. The national oil and gas company is represented by JSC KazMunayGas. The purpose of this study is to analyze the share of gross value added of sectors in GDP, the volume of oil transportation, growth for the year of crude oil production in recent years, consideration of the prospects for the development of the oil and gas industry of Kazakhstan. The result of this article is that the analysis of the oil and gas sector helped to identify trends, regulation in this area, shows the role of the fuel and energy complex of Kazakhstan in ensuring the country’s energy security.

Annotation: This paper contains the analysis of the modern level and the living quality of the Russian population. It has been noted that the continuing crisis in Russia increases the level of wealth inequality and feeds fragmentation of the society. Unfortunately, in general throughout the country, the level of the population’s living quality has decreased to the level of 2009, and the recovery will be possible only in the mid-2020s. According to the forecast of the Analytical Credit Rating Agency (ACRA) in 2017 the wealth decline will be equal to 0.2%, while the next three years it will hardly exceed 1%. The paper contains the analysis of the population’s living quality rated by the regions. In accordance with the rating of the Russian population’s living quality by the regions, the RIA-Rating Agency reports Moscow, Saint-Petersburg and the Moscow Oblast are the leading regions, while the outsiders with the lowest quality of living are the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Ingushetia and Tuva. In some regions, significant decline in the living quality is observed.

Annotation: Many countries, including Russia, assign to the inflow of foreign direct investment the role of the carrier of new technologies and advanced methods of organization of production, a catalyst for technical and economic progress, as well as a deeper inclusion of its economy in the world economy. One of the indicators of the country’s involvement in the world economy is the export of goods and its structure. The degree and nature of changes in export groups of goods may indicate changes in the structure of the economy under the influence of foreign direct investment, which allows to assess the positive or negative effects of them. The relevance of this work lies in the fact that for countries with economies in transition, which currently include Russia, the attraction of foreign capital is very important. With their help, it is proposed to transform the structure of both the economy and exports of the Russian Federation, reducing the share of the fuel and energy complex in its structure. The article deals with the dynamics of foreign direct investment in the Russian economy. The purpose of this work is to identify the problems of changes in the export structure of the country under the influence of foreign direct investment. The subject of the study is economic relations caused by the relationship of foreign direct investment with the structure of Russian exports. The article analyzes the economic relations caused by the relationship of foreign direct investment with the structure of Russian exports. The problems of changing the export structure of the country under the influence of foreign direct investment. The article reveals the relationship of foreign direct investment with the macroeconomic indicators of the Russian Federation. A number of key macroeconomic indicators of the Russian Federation are closely related to the value of import or export of foreign direct investment.

Annotation: The article discusses the features of urban development in Moscow from the postwar period to the present. Three stages of large-scale reorganization of residential areas of the capital are identified, the specificity of each stage is determined. The draft of the last renovation program adopted in 2017 is considered in more detail, its differences from previous programs are established, its shortcomings and ways of increasing the efficiency of the program are noted.