Accounting for global and national trends and idiosyncrasies of socioeconomic progress in the development of government strategies
The paper aims at stressing the importance of global trends of socio-economic development in the process of developing national strategies as one of the most crucial factors for ensuring the effectiveness and competitiveness of national strategies. On the basis of global scientific and technological trends, the paper made an attempt to analyse the sources of information and appropriate methodologies being used to develop a sound national development strategy. It is particularly claimed that under the current conditions of an unprecedented aggravation of global competition, analytical activities aimed at identifying and systematically searching for the most effective ways of national socio-economic progress have gained big momentum. The scale of these activities is expanding considerably, turning, in essence, into a kind of “industry”, starting from large supranational entities consisting of several countries and ending with individual private companies, designed to provide informational support for the strategic planning for national development. Emphasis is also given to the existence and constant renewal of international platforms for the discussions of contemporary global issues and the formulation of dominant development trends, such as the World Economic Forum in Davos. Based on the findings of leading world experts and scientists, the WEF constantly provides the list of global risks to modern humanity, as well as trends that could potentially affect the degree of influence of these risks. For the past several decades, the growing prevalence of environmental risks and technological challenges have been on the Top 5 global threats to human civilization. Based on the thorough analysis, the current work concludes that a comprehensive comparative analysis of global trends of development from various sources, identifying the most relevant trends applicable in the national context, and taking them into account in the development of national strategies is as important today as it was never before.