This book presents an analysis of a wide range of studies on the issue of national and regional competitiveness. For the first time, we identify leading foreign theoretical schools that form the theory of national and regional competitiveness in the world economy system. We further determine...

Russia will be hosting the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games (WOPG) in the city of Sochi in Krasnodar Krai for the first time in its history including the history of the former USSR. The selection of Sochi took place after eight years of a steady economic growth in Russia that rebounded...

The rapid economic recovery of Russia between the economic crises of 1998 and 2008-2009 in terms of GDP per capita and standards of living was accompanied by a loss of ca. 25 percent of manufacturing jobs in the whole economy. On the one hand, it was associated with adjustment of large and often...