IDENTIFICATION OF AREAS OF REGIONAL INDUSTRIAL SPECIALIZATION BASED ON THE ADVANTAGES OF EXPORT COMMODITY GROUPS
The article deals with systems of indicators aimed at assessing commodity groups in the regional export portfolio as the main component of industrial specialization. This commodity groups can form the basis of a set of priority and promising areas for regional development. The issues connected with the choice of directions among possible scenarios of regional industrial specialization are quite relevant since such a choice predetermines the place and role of the region in global economy. The purpose of analyzing regional industrial specialization directions is to identify commodity groups that have the most favorable prerequisites for further development and contribute to the development of products of related industries. The article clarifies the definition of “industrial specialization” and presents a system of indicators for evaluating commodity groups. This will make it possible to identify commodity groups that have a weighty position in international markets and also are export-oriented, so they can form the basis of the region’s production specialization. There are indicators characterizing the current export structure advantages over that of the world and over main exporters’ structure, as well as indicators describing the internal structure of consumption as the ratio of export and import in a commodity group