Methodological Approaches to the Analysis of Regional Socio-Economic Dynamics: Modern Experience of Empirical Research

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	Regionalistica 2025 Volume 12 number 3 pages 69-88

Title of the article	Methodological Approaches to the Analysis of Regional Socio-Economic Dynamics: Modern Experience of Empirical Research
Pages	69-88
Author 1	Naiden Svetlana Nikolaevna doctor of economics, professor of RAS, deputy director for research Economic Research Institute FEB RAS 153, Tikhookeanskaya Street, Khabarovsk, Russia, 680042 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: 0000-0002-1647-7853
Author 2	Prokapalo Olga Mikhailovna doctor of economics, deputy director for research Economic Research Institute FEB RAS 153, Tikhookeanskaya Street, Khabarovsk, Russia, 680042 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: 0000-0002-7570-397Х
Author 3	Ukrainsky Vadim Nikolaevich candidate of sciences (economics), research fellow Economic Research Institute FEB RAS 153, Tikhookeanskaya Street, Khabarovsk, Russia, 680042 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: 0000-0001-8273-9789
Abstract	A critical analysis and generalization of foreign and domestic empirical works which devoted to the study of regional socio- economic dynamics are showed the absence of a single methodological platform. The diversity of research interests, as the multifaceted nature of regions, determines the consideration of dynamic socio-economic processes at different levels, the use of various methods of quantitative and qualitative analysis, different breadth of coverage of the analyzed processes, the use of both systems of indicators and various complex integral indices. Not all studies meet such important conditions as the relevance and applicability of the proposed methods for analyzing regional socio-economic dynamics.
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DOI	10.14530/reg.2025.3.69
Keywords	socio-economic dynamics, region, research methods, resilience, competitiveness, indexing, system of indicators
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For citation	Naiden S.N., Prokapalo O.M., Ukrainsky V.N. Methodological Approaches to the Analysis of Regional Socio-Economic Dynamics: Modern Experience of Empirical Research. Regionalistica [Regionalistics]. 2025. Vol. 12. No. 3. Pp. 69–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.14530/reg.2025.3.69 (In Russian)
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