CONTENTS

Volume 8, 2004

Investment CLIMATE

Rudolf ZIMENKOV. New features of the US corporations activities abroad

Now the main channel of US production capital export are transnational corporations accounting for 90% of direct investment export. The TNC became the major force of market production and international labour division, a dominant factor of the world economy. The TNC direct investments prevail in joining national economies in an international production system, the material nucleus of the world economy in the globalization epoch.

Investment MARKET

Victor MOSKVIN. The consumer goods market from the pricing point of view

It is supposed that the most of investment projects are targeted to production of consumer goods. With the growth of private means of production the distinction between consumer and other goods (goods for manufacturers) becomes more and more fading from the pricing point of view. The investment project participants have to make decisions adequate to their understanding of this problem so that the risks depending on marketing research be minimized.

Ivan ANDRYEVSKI. Assessment business in Russia: the market partners , main problems, trends

The audit and assessment services fall into initiated and compulsory ones. Though in the last decade the most of services accounted for audit, the latest three years assessment services soared in their number. The cases of compulsory assessment have doubled the number of compulsory audit cases. The same relates to the initiated cases. Besides the state harried to pass the assessment law completing the market of assessment services.

Leonid RATHKEEN. Investment in health care in Russia: will the paid medical services contribute to social investment?

The dental tools developed in the military enterprises are a good example of possible investing the profit gained in the social sphere.

Boris SAFRONOV, Boris MELNIKOV, Valentina MARKOVSKAYA, Victoria LIKHODIY, Angelina AFINOGENOVA. The investment market: the situation in the 1^st quarter 2004

Investment TECHNOLOGIES

Oleg SUKHAREV, Tatiana MAKARENKO. The basic theory and efficiency evaluation of investment in human capital (the anti-Backer evaluation paradigm)

In the last decades the investment in human capital dramatically exceeded investments in capital assets. The total cost of the human capital (expenses for education, training, health care, R&D) is twice the cost of capital assets.

Innovation

Sergei OSTAPIUK. Development programs as a key element of managing the science, technology and innovation advance

The paper deals with the concept of solving problems which face the designers of development programs.

Valentin TOMASHCHUK. The innovative chemical poly-complex, a lucrative prospect for big business

The Russian big business would gain much by investing in the chemical industry, particularly in methacrylates.