Municipal-level centers of economic growth in the Russian Federation

The authors estimated gross value added (GVA) for all municipalities in the Russian Federation, as well as their contribution to the economic growth at the national level, using the methodology for calculating GVA at the municipal level. The results are analyzed by type of municipalities according to their economic specialization and position in the settlement pattern. Municipalities with significant positive contribution to the economic growth in 2010-2016 were identified as well as the territories with negative economic trends that are responsible for deceleration at the national level. Spatially contiguous clusters of municipalities that contributed more than 1% to the country’s economic growth for the period under study were considered centers of economic growth. Large metropolitan areas, agro-industrial municipalities located near the national settlement system centers and in the favorable climate zones and mining-oriented territories where new deposits of raw materials are being actively developed are among the centers. A negative contribution to the economic growth is typical of depressed mono-functional industrial territories as well as the areas where economic activities are predominantly those of public sector. The use of statistics at the municipal level allowed a detailed analysis of the economic space, in which smaller economically homogeneous territories replace regions as operational units. Obtained GVA values made it possible to assess spatial development trends at the sub-regional level in the 2010s, to account for specific features of territories and their potential while elaborating and implementing the territorial policy measures at the federal and regional levels, as well as to increase its evidentiality by using the available statistical data of municipal level.

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