RURAL LOCAL ECONOMY: CLASSIFICATION OF MUNICIPAL DISTRICTS ACCORDING TO THE LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL NON-AGRICULTURAL SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES

DOI 10.33305/241-95

Issue № 1, 2024, article № 10, pages 95-102

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Language: Russian

Original language title: СЕЛЬСКАЯ ЛОКАЛЬНАЯ ЭКОНОМИКА: КЛАССИФИКАЦИЯ МУНИЦИПАЛЬНЫХ РАЙОНОВ ПО УРОВНЮ РАЗВИТИЯ СЕЛЬСКИХ НЕСЕЛЬСКОХОЗЯЙСТВЕННЫХ МАЛЫХ И СРЕДНИХ ПРЕДПРИЯТИЙ

Keywords: RURAL LOCAL ECONOMY, SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED BUSINESSES, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, DIVERSIFICATION OF THE RURAL ECONOMY, NON-AGRICULTURAL BUSINESS, CLASSIFICATION OF MUNICIPAL DISTRICTS

Abstract: Issues of diversification of the rural economy due to the declining agricultural employment and the need to maintain a balanced spatial development of the country, remain of acute concern. Particular attention has recently been paid to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the basis of the rural local economy. However, until now the role of rural small and medium-sized businesses, including those employed outside the agricultural sector, in the economic development of municipal districts, as well as the differences in the level of development of these SMEs across the country, and not a separate region, remain almost unexplored. The article, based on SPARK-Interfax data, which accumulates information from Rosstat, Rosreestr, Federal Tax Service and other official sources, proposes a classification of municipal districts according to the contribution of non-agricultural small and medium-sized enterprises (NSMEs) to the revenue of district enterprises – 4 classes of districts are identified, characteristics of classes are given, including indicators of efficiency, productivity and remuneration of rural SMEs employed outside the agricultural sector. It was revealed that rural non-agricultural SMEs predominate in both the number and revenue of rural SMEs, although large enterprises still make the main contribution to revenue. In 26,2% of districts, the contribution of rural SMEs to the revenue of district enterprises exceeded 50%. With the increase in the contribution of rural SMEs to the revenue of enterprises in the region, a growth trend is observed in terms of revenue and profit from sales per employee, capital productivity, and a reduction in debts per ruble of revenue. The data allowed for classification only on the basis of legal entities registered in municipal districts. For more complete further research, it is necessary to improve the databases of the Federal Tax Service and Rosstat in the direction of providing data in the context of the actual location of economic entities by type of settlement, including financial and economic indicators for individual entrepreneurs.

Authors: Gataulina Ekaterina Aleksandrovna, SHishkina Ekaterina Alekseevna