Content №4 от 2007
New techniques for measuring spatial transformation of economy
The paper is devoted to the methodological issues of how to measure the shifts of a spatial structure of economy. The author offers a technique for complex assessing the spatial shifts, and presents the assessments concerning comparative development in Russian regions in 2007-2009. The interrelation between economic growth and regional disparities is also discussed here. The paper gives a mathematical statement of the problem and discusses its optimal solution. The author offers a technique for the invariant clusterization of regional indicators; describes how to build “a medial cluster”, i.e. that one including the regions having indicators close to average ones in the country, and discusses the features of such cluster. The paper also analyses the shifts in the “geometry” of the cluster – its size and structure - which took place in 2000-2005.
