Strategic Directions for Developing Cooperatives to Benefit the Country’s Economy

Abstract

The article considers the directions of development of cooperation in Russia and the main stages of its formation, identifies the problems of functioning of regions, considers the experience of effective activity of cooperatives in developed countries, presents the main cooperative forms of work in the Russian economy and their main advantages over other types of property. The factors constraining the development of cooperation of rural producers in the production and sale of products. On this basis, the components of a long-term strategy for the development of the cooperative movement in Russia, providing an increase in the level of employment, quality of life and GDP growth. The purpose of this study is to identify the prerequisites that are the basis for justifying the evolutionary transformations of the state socio—economic management, aimed at strengthening the status of the country, improving the quality of life of the population of the main masses and creating favorable conditions for increasing the GDP of the Russian Federation. The study revealed that in the economy of the country the most common forms of activity of cooperatives are recognized: consumer, as the most preferred by the number of employees, and developed, covering catering and retail enterprises; financial, carrying out the accumulation of Finance, lending and insurance of cooperatives; agricultural, engaged in the cultivation and sale of agricultural products. At the same time, it is proved that credit cooperation contributes to the growth of investment resources; agricultural, represented by supply, production, marketing, veterinary and some other types of cooperatives. The object of this study were different types of cooperatives that occupy a certain place in the economy. The subject of the study is the financial, supply, agricultural activities of cooperatives, as well as the factors, conditions of development and the reasons that do not allow these organizations necessary for the country to develop quickly and effectively. The information base is represented by the indicators of The Russian statistical Yearbook; the results of the study; the legislative base of the country to create and expand the activities of cooperatives; materials borrowed from various literary sources; survey data, information from the Internet and the media.