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Problems and prospects of regional demographic fertility policy

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The necessity to reasonably combine federal and regional measures of fertility policy is substantiated. The aspects, objectives, and tasks of regional fertility policy are distinguished. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the experience of Russia’s regions in forming the organizational, legal, and financial bases of demographic fertility policy. Among the essential problems of statutory and regulatory support of regional fertility policy, the absence of a uniform system of legal acts governing demographic development is distinguished. The factors classified by the author as decreasing the quality of organizational support of regional demographic fertility policy in Russia are disassociation and inconsistency in the actions of authorities aimed at improving birth rates and the absence of a due regional and municipal scientific and HR potential. It is proved herein that the inconsistency of spending powers with income sources for regional fertility policy and the replacement of basic means of ensuring proper budget income with target financing makes authorities develop their demographic measures not according to the reasonability of expenses necessary to achieve defined objectives but proceeding from the remaining opportunities; as a result, regional fertility policy is often declarative.

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Original Russian Text © O.V. Shipunova, 2012, published in Region: Ekonomika i Sotsiologiya, 2012, No. 1(73), pp. 174–184.

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Shipunova, O.V. Problems and prospects of regional demographic fertility policy. Reg. Res. Russ. 3, 71–74 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079970513010103

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