Export Competitiveness and FDI Performance across the Regions of the Russian Federation

The Russian Federation's regions not only have highly uneven degrees of development, they also have very uneven degrees of foreign orientation. Regions with the highest foreign orientation--exports of goods per capita or inbound foreign direct...

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Main Authors: Dairabayeva, Karlygash, Ferrantino, Michael J., Portugal-Perez, Alberto, Schmidt, Gabriela
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
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Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/09/26785275/export-competitiveness-fdi-performance-across-regions-russian-federation
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spelling okr-10986-251222021-04-23T14:04:29Z Export Competitiveness and FDI Performance across the Regions of the Russian Federation Dairabayeva, Karlygash Ferrantino, Michael J. Portugal-Perez, Alberto Schmidt, Gabriela export competitiveness FDI direct foreign investment regional development The Russian Federation's regions not only have highly uneven degrees of development, they also have very uneven degrees of foreign orientation. Regions with the highest foreign orientation--exports of goods per capita or inbound foreign direct investment per capita—almost across the board have the highest standard of living; and those with the lowest foreign orientation generally have the lowest. In this paper, the Russian federal regions are grouped into three categories--lagging, middle-range, and leading--according to real per capita gross regional product. Leading regions seem to be those specialized in mineral exports; lagging regions are not. In addition, the richest regions tend to have high per capita exports, high foreign direct investment, or both; middle-range regions with relatively higher incomes often have high per capita non-mineral exports. Russia's lagging regions have much more tenuous international engagements than the rest of Russia in exports and foreign direct investment. These findings suggest that foreign orientation is an important determinant of socioeconomic development and could be an important item on Russia's regional policy agenda. Such policies might have a variety of objectives: (1) earning income (export goods in which Russia has traditionally had a comparative advantage); (2) diversification and economic stability (minimize risk from drops in oil prices or crises in individual markets and add exports for which demand is likely to be steady over the medium term); (3) technological upgrading (move to more sophisticated goods with greater innovation content); and (4) regional development (promote the uplift of lagging regions). Each of these motives has a different profile of goods exported, regions, and most closely associated destination markets. 2016-10-06T21:38:51Z 2016-10-06T21:38:51Z 2016-09 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/09/26785275/export-competitiveness-fdi-performance-across-regions-russian-federation http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25122 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7821 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Europe and Central Asia Russian Federation
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topic export competitiveness
FDI
direct foreign investment
regional development
spellingShingle export competitiveness
FDI
direct foreign investment
regional development
Dairabayeva, Karlygash
Ferrantino, Michael J.
Portugal-Perez, Alberto
Schmidt, Gabriela
Export Competitiveness and FDI Performance across the Regions of the Russian Federation
geographic_facet Europe and Central Asia
Russian Federation
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7821
description The Russian Federation's regions not only have highly uneven degrees of development, they also have very uneven degrees of foreign orientation. Regions with the highest foreign orientation--exports of goods per capita or inbound foreign direct investment per capita—almost across the board have the highest standard of living; and those with the lowest foreign orientation generally have the lowest. In this paper, the Russian federal regions are grouped into three categories--lagging, middle-range, and leading--according to real per capita gross regional product. Leading regions seem to be those specialized in mineral exports; lagging regions are not. In addition, the richest regions tend to have high per capita exports, high foreign direct investment, or both; middle-range regions with relatively higher incomes often have high per capita non-mineral exports. Russia's lagging regions have much more tenuous international engagements than the rest of Russia in exports and foreign direct investment. These findings suggest that foreign orientation is an important determinant of socioeconomic development and could be an important item on Russia's regional policy agenda. Such policies might have a variety of objectives: (1) earning income (export goods in which Russia has traditionally had a comparative advantage); (2) diversification and economic stability (minimize risk from drops in oil prices or crises in individual markets and add exports for which demand is likely to be steady over the medium term); (3) technological upgrading (move to more sophisticated goods with greater innovation content); and (4) regional development (promote the uplift of lagging regions). Each of these motives has a different profile of goods exported, regions, and most closely associated destination markets.
format Working Paper
author Dairabayeva, Karlygash
Ferrantino, Michael J.
Portugal-Perez, Alberto
Schmidt, Gabriela
author_facet Dairabayeva, Karlygash
Ferrantino, Michael J.
Portugal-Perez, Alberto
Schmidt, Gabriela
author_sort Dairabayeva, Karlygash
title Export Competitiveness and FDI Performance across the Regions of the Russian Federation
title_short Export Competitiveness and FDI Performance across the Regions of the Russian Federation
title_full Export Competitiveness and FDI Performance across the Regions of the Russian Federation
title_fullStr Export Competitiveness and FDI Performance across the Regions of the Russian Federation
title_full_unstemmed Export Competitiveness and FDI Performance across the Regions of the Russian Federation
title_sort export competitiveness and fdi performance across the regions of the russian federation
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2016
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/09/26785275/export-competitiveness-fdi-performance-across-regions-russian-federation
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