Managing the Gross Regional Product Structure in the Territorial Subjects of the Southern Federal District

The condition of national economy is substantially determined by the level of economic development of certain regions in the country. Adaptive capability of separate regional economy of external and internal risk damping depends on features of its structure which forms inertially under the impact of managerial influence from the authorities depending on three main managerial objectives of forming the structure of regional economy: bringing the structure of regional economy to a uniform state, individualization of this structure or strategy assuming integration of regions with the differing structure to macroregions. In the article the hypothesis of the assessment possibility of managerial impact by means of the indicators characterizing rapprochement or a discrepancy of the gross regional product (GRP) structure within one federal district is considered. The research of the structure of the given indicator at the subjects of the Southern Federal District for the period 2005–2015 is conducted using an index method, including calculation of the Szalai index and the index of structure offered by the author. It did not reveal a significant effect on change of the structure of GRP subjects in the analysed period. It provides with the possibility to speak about weakness or lack of purposeful managerial impact on this indicator from the district level of the power. In the federal district obvious tendencies to more balanced participation of regions in creation of total amount of GRP are not revealed. Due to the universality and high sensitivity of the received results, the formulated algorithm of calculation of the structure index, is acceptable for convergence determination of the structure of regional economies on the basis of the GRP structure indicator and can be applied in other federal districts of Russia.

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