Diagnostics of structural shifts in economy of peripheries in central region of southern Russia

Abstract

The present state of the regional economic space is difficult to consider in isolation from the pattern of industrial specialization. In southern Russian regions, it is the currently aggravated socio-economic issues being determined by the crisis events and processes in the economy that make us adopt a new perspective to look at the need to establish a balanced spatial economic policy for preventing asymmetry and polarization in the development of separate territories