CONTENTS

Volume 6, 2006

 

INVESTMENT IN RUSSIA

Investment in the country’s future

From the annual message of President V. V. Putin to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

 

INVESTMENT CLIMATE

Rudolf ZIMENKOV. Peculiarity of free economic zones functioning in African countries

Certain hopes relating industrial growth, foreign trade, currency revenues, employment were cherished concerning free economic zones. However these zones had not found wide use in the African countries because of the lack of money, undeveloped infrastructure, corruption in the state sector, internal political instability, interstate conflicts.

Vsevolod ARKHIPOV. Australian investment ties with the West and East European countries and Russia

Australian ties with European countries become increasingly stronger. There is every reason to think that under current favourable conditions in the world this trend will last and, probably, grow stronger.

 

INVESTMENT MARKET

Victor MOSKVIN. The algorithm of selecting company staff through business games

The cycle of articles is continued (ref. ¹¹. 8 - 12, 2005 and ¹¹ 1 - 5, 2006). An important line of upgrading labour organization is the perfection of the company human potential.

Leonid RATHKEEN. Investment in Russian machine-tool building: from industrial economy to economy of knowledge

What are the priorities of developing high technologies for production of competitive metal and wood articles? What are the prospects of the world machine-tool industry? The situation in question in Russia.

Vladimir NOVOSELSKY. Prospects of economy development and science and technology progress

Elaboration of the Russian economy reform strategy, evaluation of its development prospects, ways of the Russian industry modernization still remain urgent. This is the motive for writing this article.

 

INVESTMENT TECHNOLOGIES

Nikolai KAZANTSEV, Socorro DELGADO. Law patterns and categories of technical regulation of allowed risks in the engineering projects

Alla FLIOROVA. Comments

Yevgeni IVANOV. An algorithm of upgrading management of investments by local self-government bodies

 

INNOVATION

Nikolai SHAKHRAMANIAN. A system of expert assessment of R&D financing efficiency

Tatiana GOLGYAKOVA. Innovation notion and classification

 

REFERENCE and ADVICE

Alexandr TATARKIN, Yevgeni POPOV. Review of the book «Institutions and economic development» by O. S. Sukharev.