Legal Encyclopedia. The letter P

depressive REGION

- Is the subject of the Russian Federation or local territorial entity, the hallmark of which is a strong and constant lagging behind the other regions.

The basis for the classification of the region to the depressed category is a situation in which extremely limited or non-existent facilities and resources for self-resolution of the crisis. It means the absence of the normal development of economic, demographic and other regionally-mediated processes.

There are the following reasons

regions of depression:

1) the transfer of economic disparities production structures to territorial parameters. Wages in the RD is the lowest since the characteristic cluster of industries with low-paid jobs, which results for him is the low level of employment and rising unemployment;

2) special characteristics of the region, ie, the presence of negative factors that hinder the socio-economic

development of the region. These include the lack of competitiveness of production,

the small number of the working population due to the continued outflow of active population, remoteness from major economic centers, the loss of the former advantages of individual regions.

The main objective of federal regional policy is to reduce the divergence of the level of socio-economic development of regions in the Russian Federation, as well as the containment of the increase in disparities of the territorial structure of production. The main way to achieve these goals is the territorial division of labor in the whole country, that should not lead to a backlog of some regions. State to maintain such regions should compensate the losses associated with the specialization on unfavorable conditions in the local branches of the economy.

RD rehabilitation program in the implementation of a specific program a particular region requires close cooperation of the Russian Federation and its subjects in order to concentrate resources in

the most depressed regions. For their realization it is necessary to have clear ideas about the causes of depression, mechanisms to overcome it, the number of own resources and borrowed funds.

Financial resources for the rehabilitation of RD is usually allocated from the budgets of different levels and extra-budgetary funds. The sources of funds financing program

improvement of depressive region are budget funds aimed at implementing federal programs; concessional loans to the population; funds provided by a charitable foundation; part of the funds received from the privatization or liquidation, bankrupt.

Depending on the cause of the depressive state are the following ways to overcome it:

1) investments in regional infrastructure;

2) granting tax breaks to companies that create in the region new jobs;

3) provision of targeted assistance to specific areas to improve their economic development, as well as the elimination of the causes of ecological disasters cal or social

tension;

4) the establishment of such a legal regime that will promote the development and support of farmers and cooperatives;

5) increase in the number of working-age population in the region in accordance with its resource potential.

The mechanism of overcoming depression is purposeful interaction of authorities at different levels, increase social guarantees for the population and the regulation of migration, improvement of public support for the regions in the implementation of federal programs, the settlement of property relations, fiscal, credit and monetary policy.