ESTIMATION OF THE PRODUCTION AND ECONOMIC POTENTIAL OF A REGION AS THE FACTOR OF INCREASE IN ITS INVESTMENT ATTRACTIVENESS (BASED ON THE EXAMPLE TO BELGOROD REGION)

Abstract

In order to evaluate and raise the investment attractiveness of the region it is necessary to assess and analyze the economic potential of this region with the goal to identify the sustainable "growth points" of breakthrough developments. In this paper the author writes about the production and economic potential in the following directions: 1) the characteristic of natural resources and economic and geographical stability; 2) the characteristic of productive forces of the region in the structure of national economy; 3) structural dynamic mark of the productive forces of the region; 4) the retrospective analysis of the structural changes in economy: 5) the characteristic of the biggest and principal enterprises of the region: 6) the identification of tendencies and directions of diversification. The results of analysis give us the chance to judge about the sustainibility of the economic development of the region, its investment attractiveness and productive suppleness.