Regional Asymmetry in Russian Federation: Estimation and Approaches to its Reduction

Abstract

Until the end of the 1990s, the question of regional asymmetry in the Russian Federation was raised exclusively in the context of the territorial consequences of the crisis and the decline in production. And these consequences, as numerous calculations show, have invariably manifested themselves through increasing imbalances.
Since 1999, Russia has been experiencing an economic recovery. How stable it is and what causes it is a separate issue. The main issue that is studied in the article is the assessment of territorial differentiation in connection with macroeconomic growth and the role of the transfer mechanism in its weakening.