Problems of Fiscal Capacity Increasing in the Regions of the Russian Far East

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	Regionalistica 2020 Volume 7 number 6 pages 23-38

Title of the article	Problems of Fiscal Capacity Increasing in the Regions of the Russian Far East
Pages	23-38
Author 1	Veprikova Elena Borisovna Candidate of science (economics), head of research department Eastern State Planning Center of the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic 8, L’va Tolstogo Street, Khabarovsk, Russia, 680000 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: 0000-0003-3513-6998
Author 2	Novitskii Aleksei Andrevich Project leader at the research department Eastern State Planning Center of the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic 8, L’va Tolstogo Street, Khabarovsk, Russia, 680000 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: 0000-0003-1787-2975
Author 3	Gulidov Ruslan Vitalyevich Candidate of science (economics), acting director Eastern State Planning Center of the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic 8, L’va Tolstogo Street, Khabarovsk, Russia, 680000 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: 0000-0002-1542-4901
Abstract	The article examines the current state of regional budgets in the Russian Far Eastern macroregion. The regional per capita budget expenditures lag far behind the country’s average values, that makes regions unable to overcome the existing gap in social development, infrastructural provision of the territory and to improve the quality of life. The article considers possibilities of increasing the regional budget revenues from existing major revenue sources such as tax capacity, intergovernmental transfers (equalization grants) and borrowing. It is argued that in the short term the level of regional budget expenditures may best be increased by grants, in the long term the major potential for sustainable increase in budget income is associated with expansion of economic activity and rise of factor productivity.
Code	336.14
DOI	10.14530/reg.2020.6.23
Keywords	budget expenditures ♦ budget revenues ♦ intergovernmental transfers ♦ grants ♦ macroregion ♦ Far Eastern Federal District
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For citation	Veprikova E.B., Novitskii A.A., Gulidov R.V. Problems of Fiscal Capacity Increasing in the Regions of the Russian Far East. Regionalistica [Regionalistics]. 2020. Vol. 7. No. 6. Pp. 23–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.14530/reg.2020.6.23 (In Russian)
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