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The article deals with the analysis of business activity of companies and suggests the clustering as a key integration pattern of the central and peripheral region areas. Prerequisites of clustering formation and development are considered in the article. Moreover, the authors stressed that clustering increases the investment prospects of both the industry and the region.

The analysis of production and economic activities of enterprises suggested considering and proposing a new integration form of interaction of enterprises in the region. The article is devoted to the identification of the prerequisites for the formation and development of clusters in the South of Russia. It is shown that clustering will make it possible to increase the investment attractiveness of both the individual industry and the region as a whole.

The article discusses the risk assessment methods of financial performance of an enterprise. The essence of the main risks typical in enterprises of agro-industrial complex is described, sources of risk and factors affecting the financial performance are identified. A logical and probabilistic model of the risk of financial performance of an enterprise is suggested; factors and events that initiate the loss of profit, a decrease in sales revenues and an increase in the costs of enterprises in the agro-industrial complex are revealed. A method for calculating the significant values of risk probability and security areas for the formation of the financial performance of an enterprise is presented. An algorithm for calculating the dependencies was developed and it makes it possible to assess the critical values of indicators of financial and economic activity of an enterprise and the level of risk and threats to financial performance. The expediency of use of the authors’ algorithm in order to optimize the amount and structure of costs and capital. It was stated that the suggested approach allows to monitor continuously the magnitude of risk and threats, to evaluate the effectiveness of measures which reduce the risk of having undesirable financial performance in an enterprise.

The article presents the relationship of sustainable development based on a combination of social and environmental aspects of society with the solution of economic problems that objectively arise due to the growing negative impact on the biosphere. The state of solving the tasks necessary to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals formulated by the UN for the period up to 2020 in the Russian Federation is analyzed. The directions of transition to sustainable human development are shown based on the use of the concept of circular economy and the introduction of a model of its implementation, taking into account the peculiarities of the organization of the socio-ecological and economic system in each country. The most relevant areas of research on the problems of sustainable development and the transition to a circular economy are formulated.