On developing a comprehensive sustainable urban and rural development program

Issue № 1, 2021, article № 10, pages 76-91

Section: Development of rural territories

Language: Russian

Original language title: О ПОСТРОЕНИИ КОМПЛЕКСНОЙ ПРОГРАММЫ УСТОЙЧИВОГО РАЗВИТИЯ ГОРОДСКИХ И СЕЛЬСКИХ ТЕРРИТОРИЙ

Keywords: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, RURAL AREAS, URBAN AREAS, STATE PROGRAM FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, NATURAL POPULATION GROWTH

Abstract: It is shown that in the post-Soviet period a difficult demographic situation, manifested in a decrease in natural population growth, developed not only in rural areas, but also in cities. This, in particular, is evidenced by the high Pearson correlation coefficient (0.55) between the growth (decline) rates of the population by region. The shares of the urban and rural population, which need a radical improvement in their well-being in order for at least its simple reproduction (even taking into account migration) to be carried out, are approximately equal in our country and amount to about 60‰. This fact leads to an important methodological conclusion: for economic science and for the country's leadership, when developing economic programs, it would be a mistake to consider only the dynamics of the population of rural areas or, conversely, only the dynamics of the urban population separately and separately to solve for them the problems of increasing the population and sustainable development. About 20‰ of the consolidated budget, taking into account the structure of today's government spending, could be directed to improving the welfare of the population of rural areas and the development of the rural economy. A bottom-up approach to the development of a comprehensive state program aimed at a sustainable increase in the rate of natural population growth by improving the well-being of the urban and rural population is proposed in three areas - demographic, economic, social and socio-infrastructural. The construction is carried out "from the bottom up", that is, the required activities and the amount of funding are determined for the district level in the course of interaction of district administrations with ministries responsible for social and other infrastructure and the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Agriculture, separately for urban and rural populations, with taking into account the priorities determined by the objectives of the program. The required amounts of financing for each district are determined on the basis of development standards for each of the social sectors.

Authors: Epshtein David Berkovich