ASSESSMENT OF THE APPROACH TO MEASURING MINERAL RESOURCES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE TRANSITION TO A SOCIO-ECONOMIC MODEL OF BUSINESS REPORTING: THE CASE OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

Abstract

The article studies and evaluates the trend of measurement of mineral resources adopted in the Republic of Moldova for its compliance with the imperative of transition to the socio-economic model of reporting. The trend analysis has shown that in the national economy there is a tendency of dominance of the contribution of processing enterprises of non-metallic raw materials and construction industry in the formation of macroeconomic indicators, which contradicts the essence of the activity of these enterprises - their secondary character in relation to the enterprises of extractive industry. The paper utilizes quantitative and qualitative analysis using the contribution coefficient and the coefficient of contribution of one notional percent of the identified economic activity to the selected macroeconomic indicators. The aggregate data on indicators of the identified enterprises of the real sector of the economy used in the calculations were obtained from the official database of the National Bureau of Statistics. The obtained results allowed to reveal an asymmetric approach in structuring the contribution to macroeconomic indicators of the identified branches of the real sector of the economy of the Republic of Moldova. The reason for this phenomenon is the adopted model of valuation based on the cost of mineral resources, which ignores their value under constrained conditions.