The Russian Ministry for Economic Development expects the gross regional product (GRP) of the North Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) to increase by 11.3% in 2013 and by 2.8.2% in 2015, compared with 2011. Investments should grow 1.5-fold. Shares of the Ural and Southern Federal Districts are expected to shop, Prime reports.
Over 50% of total GRP of all regions should remain unchanged in mid-term prospects. The Samara Region will move the Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous District from the 10th position to the 11th in 2013-2015.
Moscow will keep sharing 22% of the total GRP, taking the first position. The Moscow Region and Saint-Petersburg will take the second and third respectively. Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, Krasnodar and Krasnoyarsk Territory, Sverdlovsk Region, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District will remain the top 10 regions in 2013-2015.
The Central and Privolzhsky Federal Districts will make their biggest contribution to the GRP.
Unemployment will increase from 5.4% to 5.9%. The unemployment level has remained at 5.4% in July for the third month in a row.
Employable population will drop from 69.5 million people in 2012 to 68.6 million in 2015. Labour output will have to increase by 17.5%.
The highest reduction of unemployment is in the NCFD, dropping from 6.9% in 2011 to 5.7% in 2015. Reduction will be registered in Dagestan, Ingushetia, Komi, Kalmykia, Chechnya, Khabarovsk Territory, Murmansk, Sverdlovsk, Smolensk, Chelyabinsk and Tomsk Regions. Saint-Petersburg is expected to have an unemployment of only 0.5%.
0.9-0.8% unemployment is expected in the Kaluga, 0.6% in Leningrad, 0.7% in Lipetsk, 0.6-0.7% in Moscow, 0.8-0.9% in Nizhegorodskaya, 0.6-.07% in Tyumen and 0.9-1% in Sakhalin Regions, 0.8% in Khanty-Mansiysk and 0.6-0.7% in Moscow.
Unemployment in the Krasnodar Territory, Orenburg and Ulyanovsk Regions will stay at 1%.
Unemployment will increase from 1.7% in 2011 to 1.8% in 2015 in the Archangelsk Region, from 1.4% to 1.5% in Tatarstan, from 1.4% to 2% in Buryatia, from 1.2% to 1.5% in Chuvashia, from 2% to 2.1% in Magadan Region.
The highest increase of unemployment is expected in Ingushetia, Tyva, Kalmykia, North Ossetia, Chechnya, Amur Region, Altay and Trans-Baikal Territories, Chukotsky Autonomous District.
