THE NORTHERN CAUCA-SUS RESEARCH INSTI-TUTE OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS

Founded in 1986.

160 Pushkinskaya St., Rostov-on-Don, Russia 344006

Director OVCHINNIKOV, Victor Nikolayevich, D.S. in Economics, Prof.

Tel. 65-20-71 Fax. 65-32-05

Vice-Director KOLESNIKOV, Yuri Semenovich, D.S. in Economics, Prof.

Tel. 65-15-34

Staff: 46 members, including 6 with D.S. and 17 with Cand.S. degrees.

Departments:

— Department of Regional Studies and Environmental Policy;

— Department of Market Theory and Marketing Studies;

— Department of Regional Manegement and Social Monitoring;

— Department of Innovations in Economy and Business;

— Department of the Economics and Sociology of Education;

— Laboratory of Sociological Studies;

— Software and Computation Department.

The Southern Department of the Russian Ecological Academy, the Department of Economics of the South Russian Department of International Academy of Sciences for Schools of Higher Learning, and the Nothern Caucasus Academy of Business all work at the Institute.

Institute’s main areas of research:

— theoretical and empirical studies of reproductional relations in the region, the economic mechanism of functioning of industrial and agrarian sectors of the national economy; marketing and problems of foreign economics operations;

— development and location of productive forces in the Northern Caucasus economic region; economic aspects of environmental policy, socio-ecological monitoring;

— sociological studies of labour, business, entrepreneurship, employment, social security of population, esp. those engaged in science and education;

— innovation and business economics.

International projects:

The Institute participates in “TACIS” and “INTAS” international projects of research and education, supported by the European Community, and in US projects.

The Institute has been awarded a Soros Foundation grant to develop and publish the textbooks “Foundations of Economic Theory and Practice” and “Microeconomics”.