National Competitiveness: Alternative Methodologies of Evaluation and Contemporary Conditions for Growth (Russian Federation Case Study)

Abstract

Abstract Growth of national competitiveness belongs to the key priorities in economic strategies of the contemporary states. This article offers an author’s methodology of determining the synthetic indicator of national competitiveness which takes into account not only internal factors of national efficiency, but also country’s external economic positioning within the structure of world economic relations and international labor distribution. On the basis of the obtained here results the authors present their own recommendations on how to boost the growth of national competitiveness in the case of Russian Federation.