BUDGET CAPACITIES OF MILLION-PLUS CITIES AS A FACTOR OF THEIR SOCIAL-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Abstract
The data on the execution of the budgets of million-plus cities in 2006-2016 are analyzed. Particular importance was attached to the assessment of the degree of city authorities’ independence in making decisions on budget spending. It is shown that the autonomy of city okrugs’ (municipalities) authorities is very low and tends to decrease; city okrugs’ authorities have lost influence on the development of health care, but came to spend relatively more money on the economy; the amount of funds administered by city districts authorities is several-fold less than in Moscow and St. Petersburg. It was concluded that the powers of city okrugs’ authorities should be expanded and the status of million-plus cities should be brought closer together basing on the analysis of direct expenditures of the regional budgets.
About the Author
O. V. Kuznetsova
Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Russian Federation
Faculty of Geography, Department of Economic and Social Geography of Russia, Professor, D.Sc. in Economics, Professor of the RAS.
Russian Federation
Faculty of Geography, Department of Economic and Social Geography of Russia, Professor, D.Sc. in Economics, Professor of the RAS.
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Kuznetsova O.V. BUDGET CAPACITIES OF MILLION-PLUS CITIES AS A FACTOR OF THEIR SOCIAL-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Seriya 5, Geografiya. 2018;(4):75-82. (In Russ.)
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