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Urbanization Resource in Russia

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  • Eugenia Anatolyevna Kolomak

    (Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk National Research State University)

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The paper studies the urbanization characteristics and influence of the urban system on economic development of Russian regions employing descriptive statistics and regression analysis. The study shows the absence of urbanization growth in Russia, like in many other developed countries. The lack of dynamics in the scale of urban system is mainly due to the negative natality of recent decades. Based on empirical estimates, the author concludes that Russia is close to exhausting the possibilities of extensive expansion of the urban system. The estimates indicate that the economic resource of urbanization is connected with development of its internal structure (concentration decreasing and variety increasing) rather than scope growth of the urban system. The author concludes following: 1) there is positive influence of diversity of the urban system on the level of general regional productivity; 2) resources’ concentration in one centre negatively impact on the regional economic development; 3) a universal city policy is ineffective in Russia, due to the presence of significant regional differences in the urban systems.

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  • Eugenia Anatolyevna Kolomak, 2015. "Urbanization Resource in Russia," Spatial Economics=Prostranstvennaya Ekonomika, Economic Research Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (Khabarovsk, Russia), issue 4, pages 59-74.
    • Handle: RePEc:far:spaeco:y:2015:i:4:p:59-74
    DOI: 10.14530/se.2015.4.059-074
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    Cited by:

    1. V. E. Seliverstov & L. V. Melnikova & E. A. Kolomak & V. A. Kryukov & V. I. Suslov & N. I. Suslov, 2019. "Spatial Development Strategy of Russia: Expectations and Realities," Regional Research of Russia, Springer, vol. 9(2), pages 155-163, April.
    2. Eugenia Anatolyevna Kolomak, 2018. "Why Cities Emerge and Grow? Explanations of Theoretical and Empirical Studies," Spatial Economics=Prostranstvennaya Ekonomika, Economic Research Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (Khabarovsk, Russia), issue 2, pages 134-153.
    3. E. V. Antonov, 2018. "Demographic and Economic Asymmetry of Urban Development in the Urals, Siberia, and the Far East in 1991–2014," Regional Research of Russia, Springer, vol. 8(1), pages 16-33, January.
    4. Limonov, L. & Nesena, M., 2019. "Disparity of "large" and "small" cities of Russia: A comparative analysis of indicators of economic development and social survey data," Journal of the New Economic Association, New Economic Association, vol. 44(4), pages 163-188.

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