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The Russian Federation is one of the world leaders in coal mining. The Russian coal branch is one of the key industries of the Russian Federation. Currently the government carries out measures for restructuring of the Russian coal industry. One of the major factors of coal branch sustainable development is to focus on foreign markets in condition to meet the demands of domestic market. One of the priority directions of the Russian coal industry development is providing trade of hi-tech power product. Thus consider...

Agricultural production as a share of gross domestic product in Latvia in the year 2016 was 3.2%, which was 1.5% more than in 2015. In 2016, the sown area of cereals amounted to 716.0 thousand hectares, which was about 43.6 thousand hectares or 6.3% more than in 2015 [1]. This indicates the development of the agricultural sector, which will require production resources, as well as appropriate technology machinery to be available. The agricultural sector has to be seen in the context of rural development, where the...

Fishing opportunities of Latvia are based on the long-term research of environment and fish resources at national and international level. Environmental pollution, unfavourable spawning conditions as well as intensive fishing and other factors have negative influence upon the state of the fish stocks. As a result of stock fluctuation and changes in fishing quotas allocated annually at the EU level, Latvian fishery companies have difficulties to plan their future activities; consequently, increasing attention is be...

Under the current conditions of the functioning of agribusiness entities, forecasting of agribusiness development is of great importance. First of all, it is related to the fact that the Republic of Mari El belongs to the agroindustrial region. In addition, the enhancement of the integration processes is observed at the present time in the Republic of Mari El and new forms of integration of the economic entities of agribusiness are formed due to these processes. The formation and development of the competitiveness...

The article analyzes how the main factors influence the competitiveness of the economy. In constructing the model, three assumptions are introduced: a) there is a prehistory of the process, i.e. the variables that evaluate the competitiveness of the economy at the time t, also affect the values of previous periods; b) there is a mutual influence (interdependence) between the variables that evaluate the competitiveness of the economy; c) the variables that evaluate the competitiveness of the economy are influenced ...