ECONOMIC INTEGRATION OF NATIONAL ECONOMIC SECTORS OF THE NORTHERN BORDER REGIONS OF KAZAKHSTAN WITH THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Abstract

This article is devoted to the study of the processes of economic integration of the northern border regions of Kazakhstan and the national economic sectors of the Russian Federation adjacent to them. This direction is particularly relevant at the present stage of socio-economic and political development of our country, since the current geopolitical and geo-economic situation in the post-Soviet space requires an assessment of the effectiveness and rethinking of the processes of economic integration of the border regions in order to choose the most optimal path for further development. In this regard, the article attempts to analyze the economic and geographical processes of economic integration between the subjects of economic sectors of Kostanay, Pavlodar and North Kazakhstan regions adjacent to Russia. During it, on the basis of various economic and geographical indicators, a cumulative-point assessment of the degree of economic integration was carried out. The system of indicators of integration includes macroeconomic and economic-geographical parameters calculated on the basis of statistical data. Taking into account the fact that the indicators used are not always comparable and the image of integration for each parameter may be different, scores corresponding to the calculated indicators were assigned to assess the effectiveness of the level of economic integration. The main result of this work is the division of the northern border regions of Kazakhstan into ranks according to the degree of economic integration and the compilation of a summary-point assessment map of economic integration with the use of GIS technologies.