The interaction of the north and the south of Siberia: management of multiplicative effects

Abstract

One of the key problems of economic development of Siberia is space exploration. According to the authors opinion, there has been a very undesirable and unfortunate trend over the past 25 years, to make projects in the Arctic zone of the region autonomous from the development of economic centers located further South, mainly along the Trans-Siberian railway. However, the implementation of resource projects in the Arctic requires long-term and coordinated decisions and actions with great attention to the regional multiplier effects, which requires the creation of multilevel and multidimensional systems of interaction with a significant number of participants. Meanwhile, in the present, the effect of the implementation of the Arctic projects is evaluated primarily in terms of return on investment and revenue in the budget and reserve funds, while their influence on the regional socio-economic processes is not considered in a full range. In the authors opinion, such an evaluation of the effectiveness of oil and gas (especially the Arctic) projects cannot be considered correct. Obviously, it indicates the absence of a clear understanding of what the multiplicative effects include and how they work.