Original article
Vladimir V. Vasiliev
Luzin Institute for Economic Studies of the Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Apatity, Russia, vasiliev_vv-51@mail.ru, ORCID 0000-0001-976408687
Abstract. The aim of the work was to study and evaluate structural changes in the economy of the regions of the North at the present stage of their development (in the period from 2015 to 2019). On the basis of the methodology previously developed by the author for assessing structural shifts, twenty types of economic activity were grouped into two large spheres: production and non-production (services), each consisting of four combined industries. For these economic spheres and industries, an assessment of sectoral and then territorial structural shifts in the period 2015–2019 was carried out. It was found that in the structure of the economy of the regions of the North during this period, the vector of development changed towards an increase in the share of the production sector and a decrease in the non-production sector by 4,4 %, whereas in the previous period 2005–2015, the opposite picture was observed. The high rates of development of the production sector in all regions of the North were revealed, while it grew most rapidly in the West Siberian region due to the extensive development of new gas fields and the construction of new largest LNG complex in the North on the Yamal Peninsula. As a result, the share of GRP in the Northern zone increased in the country from 13,2 % in 2015 to 14,5 % in 2019, and the pace of development was outstripping: 144,6 % versus 129,2 % in the Russian Federation. It is noted that the pace and volume of both sectoral and territorial structural shifts in the production sector in almost all regions of the North zone are almost entirely related to both the scale of investments directed to the development of their economy and the current situation for their resources in the world commodity markets.
Keywords: structure, shifts, production sector, service sector, region, zone
Acknowledgments: the work is a part of the Institute for Economic Studies issue no. 0226-2019-0028 “Interaction of Global, National and Regional Factors in the Economic Development of the North and the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation” within the state assignment of the Federal Research Centre “Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences”.
For citation: Vasiliev V. V. Structural changes in the economy of the Northern zone in the modern period. Sever i rynok: formirovanie ekonomicheskogo poryadka [The North and the Market: Forming the Economic Order], 2021, no. 4, pp. 56–70, doi:10.37614/2220-802X.4.2021.74.005