Analysis of Agricultural Policy Instruments from the Point of View of Stimulating Rural Employment

Issue № 10, 2021, article № 1, pages 3-13

Section: Agrarian policy: problems and decisions

Language: Russian

Original language title: АНАЛИЗ ИНСТРУМЕНТОВ АГРАРНОЙ ПОЛИТИКИ С ТОЧКИ ЗРЕНИЯ СТИМУЛИРОВАНИЯ СЕЛЬСКОЙ ЗАНЯТОСТИ

Keywords: RURAL EMPLOYMENT, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, NON-AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT, GRANTS, AGRICULTURAL SUBSIDIES, AGRICULTURAL POLICY

Abstract: The article examines the impact of agrarian policies, including rural development policies, on the encouragement of rural employment. The analysis includes measures of state support implemented at the federal level since 2006. In addition to agrarian policy instruments directly aimed at the development of employment - in agriculture or in the non-agrarian sector of the rural economy, the impact of non-targeted support measures for the labor market is considered. This is a large part of agricultural subsidies and general services support. In addition, the main measures of employment support under national programs are considered from the point of view of their impact on the rural labor market. Given the inevitable decline in the number of people employed in agriculture, the main focus of the study and recommendations is on non-agricultural rural employment. The proposed directions for agricultural policy adjustment assume that public investment in education, quality infrastructure, and market structures are key determinants of the ability to develop the non-agrarian sector of the rural economy and related employment. Therefore, the formation of framework conditions and general services support are considered as more priority forms of state influence in comparison with highly specialized targeted support of certain perspective types of economic activity in rural areas - tourism, collection and processing of wild-growing products, production of building materials, etc. In this sense, the shift in the vector of regional policy from top-down directive centralized distribution of funds to co-financing of local initiatives, enshrined in the State Program "Integrated Development of Rural Areas", is the most significant change in agricultural policy in recent years.

Authors: Nikulina IUliia Nikolaevna, Serova Evgeniia Viktorovna, IAnbykh Renata Gennadevna