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Economic Integration: Spatial Aspect

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Economic Integration: Spatial Aspect / ed. by P.A. Minakir ; Rus. Acad. Sci., Far-Eastern Branch, Economic Research Institute. - M. : Publishing house «Ekonomika», 2004. - 352 p. Il. 27, tabl. 73, bibl. 158.

The monograph presents a study of the concepts and theories of economic integration, integration in the factor markets, industrial - technological integration, institutional bases of integration processes, problems of international integration, potential of integration of the Russian Far East.

The work is designed for researchers, post-graduate students, government officials, experts, teachers, post-graduates and the students studying the problems of economic integration both of the Russian economy as a whole, and the Russian Far East.

Key words: economic integration, region, interregional relations, integration ties.


 

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

9

SECTION 1. METHODOLOGICAL ASPECT OF SPATIAL INTEGRATION

13

CHAPTER 1. Economic Integration in Space

14

1.1. Economic Integration in Territorial Aspect

14

1.2. Interregional Cooperation Models

26

CHAPTER 2. Integration and Disintegration in Russia's Spatial Economics

38

2.1. Formation of the Spatial Integrated Structure

38

2.2. Disintegration: Objective Grounds and Actual Results

57

2.3. Trends for Reintegration

72

CHAPTER 3. Regional Conditions of Economic Growth

78

3.1. Macroeconomic Context of Regional Development

78

3.2. Development Problems of Inter-Budget Relations

83

CHAPTER 4. The Russian Far East: Economic Development and Integration Potential

99

4.1. Economic-Geographic and Geopolitical Integration Factors in the Russian Far East

99

4.2. Implementation Problems of the Federal Target Program «Economic and Social Development of the Russian Far East and Trans-Baikal for 1996-2005 and up to 2010»

113

SECTION 2. INTEGRATION ON FACTOR MARKETS

125

CHAPTER 5.  Labor Markets Integration

126

5.1. Labor Supply and Demand

126

5.2. Interregional Integration

130

5.3. Labor Market Performances in the Russian Far East

134

CHAPTER 6. Investment Market

140

6.1. Investment Activity in Russia

140

6.2. Spatial Investment Distribution in the Russian Far East

145

6.3. Assessing the Integration Level of the Far-Eastern Capital Market

149

SECTION 3. PRODUCTION-TECHNOLOGICAL INTEGRATION

157

CHAPTER 7. Interregional Integration in the Russian Far East Timber Compleх

158

7.1. Intraregional Integration

159

7.2. Interregional Integration

160

7.3. International Integration

162

7.4. Qualitative Changes in the Integration Flows

166

7.5. Forecast of the Dynamics in Integration Links of the Timber Complex in the Far-Eastern Federal District for up to  2010

170

CHAPTER 8. Mineral-Resource Sector: The Competitive and Integration Potentials

174

CHAPTER 9. Fisheries Complex: Integration Factors

196

CHAPTER 10. Trends and Projects of Energy Cooperation between the Russian Far East and NEA

206

СHAPTER 11. Transportation Vector of Integration

225

11.1. Transportation System of the Russian Far East

225

11.2. Transportation System of NEA: the Core of Economic Integration

236

11.3. Prospects for Natural Resources Transportation

249

SECTION 4. INTEGRATION INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK

253

CHAPTER 12. Integration-Oriented Economic Policy

254

12.1. The Efficiency of State Regional Policy

254

12.2. The Regions' Financial Capacities: Conditions for Integration

264

12.3. Institutional «Support» for Interregional Cooperation

272

CHAPTER 13. Integrated Social Standards

275

SECTION 5. INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION

291

CHAPTER 14. The Russian Far East in NEA: Goods and Services Markets

292

14.1. Integration Processes in Northeast Asia

292

14.2. The Structure of the Russian Far East Trade Cooperation with NEA Economies

300

14.3. Foreign Trade in Services

308

14.4. The Foreign Trade Cooperation Effects in the Russian Far East...

310

CHAPTER 15. Integration Projects in NEA

318

15.1. The Tumenjiang Project

318

15.2. North-Asian Bank of International Cooperation

322

15.3. Russian-Korean Industrial Complex

328

15.4. Cross-Border Cooperation Projects

332

CONCLUSION

335

LITERATURE

337

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