Russian industry in global value-added chains

The paper analyzes Russia's participation in global value-added chains in the context of global trends in their development and the challenges facing the Russian economy in modernizing its industry. The analysis is based on the OECD’s TiVA indicators. The results indicate that the extent of Russia's involvement in GVACs is very significant, but the nature of this participation is purely raw. The specificity of the participation of the Russian Federation in the international fragmentation of production within GVACs is that most of the links in value chains are bottom-up. Russia is extremely limited in using imported flows to create export products with high added value. The study confirms that in the international division of labor, Russia retains a historically established specialization, with predominance in the export of mineral and agricultural raw materials, which determines the current profile of Russia's participation in global value-added chains.peer-reviewe

СОВЕРШЕНСТВОВАНИЕ ВНЕШНЕТОРГОВОЙ ПОЛИТИКИ РОССИИ НА ОСНОВЕ ГРАВИТАЦИОННОГО МОДЕЛИРОВАНИЯ (на примере стран БРИКС)

The article investigates the features of construction of gravity models, the results of the use of which will allow to identify eff ective ways of Russian foreign policy improvements.Purpose of the article: multigravitatsion development model of Russia's foreign trade, which will identify forward the development of export-import relations in the framework of inter-regional trade area of the Russian Federation, including integration associations such as the EU, BRICS, CIS.Methodology: methodological basis of the study make up scientific methods of cognition, namely, methods of theoretical generalization and comparison; method of integrated and structural analysis.Results: During the studied analyzed Russia's foreign trade turnover, the results of which revealed that for the country's economic development is important as a variety of trade fl ows and capital fl ows, which in turn updates the problem of formation and development of the national foreign trade potential, finding the optimal proportion of commodity structure diversification and the introduction of eff ective mechanisms of regulation of export-import operations. The solution of the problem determined the conduct of the study articles Russian contemporary maps of foreign cooperation in the conditions of existing sanctions and embargoes, as well as the identification of targeted country markets for Russia's non-oil exports with a separate allocation problem area that emerged as a result of external challenges of political and economic nature faced by Russia because of the military confl ict in Ukraine. Special attention is paid to the distribution of Russian imports by partner countries.Significance: the example of EU integration associations of the CIS and the BRICS, which make up multiregional commercial space of Russia, multigravitatsionnaya model is constructed in order to assess the impact of Russia's cooperation with the EU member countries, CIS countries and the BRICS, as well as to forecast and analyze trade fl ows as the country as a whole, and in the context of export and import.Статья посвящена исследованию особенностей построения гравитационных моделей, результаты использования которых, позволят обозначить эффективные пути усовершенствования внешнеторговой политики России.Цель статьи: разработка мультигравитационной модели внешней торговли России, которая позволит обозначить перспективные пути развития экспортно-импортных отношений в рамках межрегионального торгового пространства РФ, включающего такие интеграционные объединения как ЕС, БРИКС, СНГ.Методология исследования: методологическую основу исследования составляют общенаучные методы познания, а именно: методы теоретического обобщения и сравнения; метод комплексного и структурного анализа.Результаты: в ходе исследован проанализирован внешнеторговый оборот России, результаты которого позволили установить, что для развития экономики страны важно как разнообразие внешнеторговых потоков, так и потоков капитала, что в свою очередь актуализирует проблему формирования и развития национального внешнеторгового потенциала, нахождения оптимальных пропорций диверсификации товарной структуры и внедрения действенных механизмов регулирования экспортно-импортных операций. Решение данной проблемы предопределило проведение в рамках статьи исследования современной карты внешнеторгового взаимодействия России в условиях действующих санкций и эмбарго, а также выявление таргетных страновых рынков для российского несырьевого экспорта с отдельным выделением проблемных зон, возникших в результате внешних вызовов политического и экономического характера, с которыми столкнулась Россия из-за военного конфликта на Украине. Отдельное внимание уделено распределению импорта России по странам партнерам.Значимость: на примере интеграционных объединений ЕС, СНГ и БРИКС, которые составляют мультирегиональное торговое пространство России, построена мультигравитационная модель, позволяющая оценить влияние сотрудничества России со странами-членами ЕС, СНГ и БРИКС, а также прогнозировать и анализировать торговые потоки как страны в целом, так и в разрезе экспорта и импорта

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EUROPEAN MISSILE DEFENSE AS A NEW FORM OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION OF USA ON MISSILE DEFENSE

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India’s participation in international development assistance

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