ПРОБЛЕМА СОЦИАЛЬНО-ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОЙ ДИФФЕРЕНЦИАЦИИ ПРОСТРАНСТВА В АСПЕКТЕ РЕГИОНАЛЬНОЙ НЕОЛИБЕРАЛЬНОЙ ПОЛИТИКИ

Abstract

Based on the methods of qualitative retrospective and cause-and-effect analysis of the texts of scientific articles on the research topic published in the abstract databases of domestic and foreign researchers’ publications, the author infers that by now the neoliberal concept has become a global paradigm of the universal (economic, socio-demographic, cultural, ecological, etc.) development of most states of the world. The author determines that one of the key provisions of this concept is the deregulation of the resource allocation process (state noninterference in the economy), which in practice, in the process of implementing the state regional policy, led to a widespread increase in the socioeconomic differentiation of territories. The latter, in turn, contradicts the declared goals of global (in the documents of the UN, the World Bank, and other international organizations) and regional development: these goals imply a reduction in the level of inequality between countries and within them. Based on the results of the analysis, the author of the study suggests that today, within the framework of the dominant neoliberal paradigm, the decision on the priorities of the leveling of the socioeconomic space is controversial. The theoretical significance of the results of the research lies in the expansion of theoretical and methodological ideas about the process of socioeconomic differentiation of territories considered in the aspect of the implemented neoliberal policy.