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The article deals with the content of economic growth as an economic category through determining its type, indicators and factors. It proposed grading factors based on the various existing theoretical approaches. With all the variety of growth factors and options for sorting the basic separation occurs in the direct and indirect factors, internal and external, intensive and extensive, the factors of supply, demand and distribution, controlled and uncontrolled factors, factors of economic and non-economic, interchangeable and supplemented growth factors. The author points out the main trends and features of economic growth, determining the pace and quality of economic growth in Russia at the present stage of development. The methodological basis of the study is the dialectical method of knowledge, which allows to study economic phenomena and processes in their constant interaction and development. Sources of data in the study is an analytical and statistical materials the IMF, the World Bank and the Federal State Statistics Service. Formulate a set of restrictions for sustainable economic growth in Russia, due to the influence of various kinds of factors. As highlighted in its basic elements: the raw structure of Russian exports, weak competitiveness of downstream industries, the economic sanctions imposed in 2014 by the Western countries, reducing the purchasing power of the ruble against the reserve currencies. The results may help to improve the efficiency of stimulating the development and maintenance of high economic growth in the implementation of measures of state regulation both in Russia and in other countries.

The formation of a full-fledged digital national economy integrated into a single world order is today’s trend. Under a single technological human habitat, it is necessary to understand territories as separate systemic mechanisms of the state, lined up in a logical sequence region-city-municipality city-municipality of each element’s region position to the previous and subsequent ones. That is consideration of the socio-economic development of the system from the standpoint of the agglomeration effect. Based on the above, the article considered various approaches to identifying a territory from the point of view of digital maturity in the global digital transformation process. The existing methods for assessing the digital maturity of Russian regions are considered, groups of metrics for such an assessment are given, and a critical assessment of existing methods is given to develop new ones or improve old ones. The rationale for this is the ability to track digital transformation dynamics through the digital maturity of territories.

The present paper investigates the nature and essence of the state’s debt policy and identifies patterns that contribute to the default. It assesses the status and the effectiveness of public debt management both in Russia and several European countries. The paper suggests a number of specific measures and instruments of economic, legal and administrative measures aimed at improving the efficiency of public debt management and minimizing the risk of default. A methodological basis of the study that has served as a dialectical approach, reveals a possibility of studying debt management policies and a study group’s practices of dealing with a state debt. A systematic approach to the subject of the study has revealed the existing connections and interdependence between the implementation of debt policy and the process of public debt management. The paper uses some data from the Eurostat and the Rosstat, allowing the complex to investigate the dynamics of basic indicators of the government’s debt in Russia and the Eurozone. Based on some determined patterns, the paper identifies the main positive and negative trends of public debt management in the surveyed countries. The assessment of key indicators of the current state of a debt, has revealed a number of contradictions that have a negative impact on the debt burden, which in its turn increases the likelihood of a default. The basic steps to improve the efficiency of public debt management relate to legal aspects and financial planning in conjunction with a skillful use of an administrative resource.

The aim of the article is to analyze the distribution of large Russian enterprises in key areas of activity within each federal district. Analytical and review articles concern problems of large, medium and small businesses, their role in the national economy and regional economic policy, problems of interaction between the state and business structures are the basis of theoretical and methodological approach of this research. The information base for this research is the data of accounting and tax reporting of large Russian enterprises in 2016. This data was provided by the First Independent Rating Agency. We show an uneven distribution of large enterprises across the Russian territory. More than a half of the large-sized enterprises are located in the Central Federal District. We identify areas of activity peculiar to large enterprises in each federal district and also areas of activity that are not very popular among large businesses. In the majority of regions, the greatest percent of the enterprises are presented by wholesale and retail trade. On the second place there are the enterprises of the manufacturing industry. As for mining, large business is concentrated in those regions where minerals are extracted. Among the least popular sectors are the spheres of research and development. The results will be a platform for further evaluation of the contribution of large business to the welfare of Russian regions.