Ngos’ And Local Business’ Collaboration For Socio-Economic Development Of Russian Regions

Abstract

The article presents analysis of the directions and types of collaboration between public organizations and local business community as actors of socio-economic development of regions in modern Russia. The authors amphasise that regional socio-economic development as a result of not only state regulation and economic processes, but also as a result of the collaboration of the main actors of the socio-economic space, which are state, business and NGOs. The article is based on the results of a series of international sociological studies on the mechanisms of socio-economic development, conducted in two regions of Russia: Veliky Novgorod and Nizhny Novgorod. The in-depth interviews were conducted in both cities, small towns and rural places, which allows to get more detailed information and consider specific characteristics of different types of settlements and communities. Modern situation in Russian economy and existing mechanism of redistribution of funds among state budgets of different level, the shortcomings of the modern Russian tax system, and increasing number of Russian regions with a deficit budget create difficulties, constitute environment for the third sector organizations existence and their activities. The authors show that in the situation of reducing the share of state support for the third sector organisations, the importance of sponsors’ financial support provided by local business community and received by public organizations is increasing.