CURRENT STATE AND DEVELOPMENT TRENDS OF RURAL TERRITORIES OF THE KABARDINO-BALKARIAN REPUBLIC
The article discusses issues related to the current socio-economic situation in rural areas and characterized by many problems. The sustainability of economic development is a state of the economy in which the stability of the final parameters of the development of production, social and economic indicators is maintained. Low-quality living environment, the established level and quality of life in the countryside, underdeveloped social infrastructure, environmental situation, as well as limited opportunities for work in the countryside, lower (compared to the urban) level of income have significantly influenced the processes of outflow and degradation of the labor force. An analysis of the region's sustainable development aimed at developing an active socio-economic policy shows that each analyzed constituent entity of the Russian Federation needs a special approach to solving the problems of sustainable development associated with the structure of the region's economy, its demographic and ethnic composition, the state of the use of mineral resources and their prospective opportunities, as well as the situation in the social, financial and environmental spheres. The system of regional development management existing in our country is imperfect. In this regard, the solution of the problems of the development of rural settlements is very urgent at the present time.