Practical issues of information support for assessing the potential of socio-economic development of the region (on the example of the Leningrad region)
The article considers issues of information support for assessing the potential of the region’s economic development. As an example, the Leningrad Region is taken. Most of the forecasts for economic development for 2016 converged on the fact that the growth rate of the economy of the Russian Federation was no more than 4.4%. The author analyses how well the information support of the process of developing such forecasts was made, given that the actual figures differ from the calculated ones.