REGIONAL COMPETITION AND PESSIMISTIC FORECASTS OF ECONOMIC CLIMATE IN RUSSIAN REGIONS
The problems of ensuring the competitiveness of enterprises, industries, regions, countries, through the assessment of the business climate in the Russian regions are considered. It is determined that in the framework of competitiveness theory, occupy an important place concepts and other regulations and laws that have been developed and implemented by the federal and regional authorities in the active work on sustainable development under their subjects. As a basis for assessing and predicting the level of competitiveness of the regions by the methodology (pricing) decomposition of economic growth and various factors of economic development of the territories is considered. This method allows concluding that the level of competitiveness of Russian territories began to decline due to a slowdown in the number of indicators describing the economic development of its regions. Further, it is proposed to use for the comparative assessment of regional competitiveness rating approach, the use of which allowed us to estimate the level of competitiveness of Russia, its regions and individual businesses across the country and the world.