Introduction. New economic conditions today are reflected in the development of the digital economy and determine the need to develop new methods of assessment, management, ways to attract ...specialists. In this article, an attempt was made to formulate a model for assessing economic security in the context of digital transformation, showing how the introduction of digital technologies contributes to the growth of real industry indicators and indicators and economic security. Theoretical analysis is based on the assumption that the effectiveness of digital transformations is expressed through the rate of change in the economic security indicators of a particular industry. For example, the agro-industrial complex was chosen as the key one in the field of maintaining the food and economic security of Russia. The model for assessing the economic security of innovation activity includes four stages: the formation of a set of indicators that characterize the level of digital development of the industry; construction of a reference series and ranking of indicators; comparison of the actual ranking series with the reference ranking series, calculation of the development coefficient; interpretation of the digital transformations’ economic security assessment results. Empirical analysis. The results obtained indicate that there are pathological problems in the industry that cannot be resolved through digitalization, this is proved by the development coefficient trend: there is an outstripping growth of investment in digital development against the backdrop of weakly growing intra-industry indicators; there is a decrease in the real disposable income of the population against the backdrop of rising inflation, which affects the purchasing power of the population; in the agro-industrial complex there is a high level of depreciation of fixed assets. Conclusions. The use of the economic security assessment model quite informatively reflects the current realities of economic development. The results of the assessment showed the presence of crisis phenomena in the industry and its grave condition. A way of solving the existing problems can be the increase of economic security both at the level of the state and industry, and at the level of a single organization.
Economic security serves as a basic platform for the protection of the national interests of each country and creates conditions for the realisation of the intended strategic intentions of future ...development. As a tool for the protection of national interests, it is considered a priority tool in the management of economic cycles. Accordingly, economic security can be defined as an integral category that provides countermeasures to a systemic set of negative factors. Such countermeasures require the application of a set of measures of an institutional, legal, organisational and economic nature. Therefore, economic security acts as a tool capable of adjusting the mechanism of protection of the country's national economic interests from internal and external threats and, on this basis, exerting a positive influence on ensuring balanced and stable growth of the country's economy, which improves the competitiveness of the national economy in general. The subject of the study is economic security, its content and its place in the protection of national interests of the country. The authors set themselves the task to formulate the main segments of economic security as a priority component of the system of protection of national interests and to propose the modernisation of its content for a more objective definition of the directions of protection against internal and external threats to the economic development of the country. The methodological basis of the study is based on the general principles of scientific knowledge: the principle of objectivity, which requires identification of all factors and threats that led to the creation of the economic security system; the principle of historicism, which provides for coverage of the emergence of the understanding of economic security in their historical context; the principle of multifactoriality, as a study of various objective and subjective factors that influenced the level of economic security. The paper uses such general scientific methods as description, observation, comparison of economic phenomena, provisions of economic theory on economic security; analysis and synthesis to determine the theoretical foundations of economic security in the context of ensuring the national interests of the country. The study of such a tool for protecting national interests as economic security has made it possible to identify several key segments of its essential content, which are taken into account by scholars and justified by the existing modern threats to the national interests of countries. Individual stages of the development of the concept of economic security are analysed in terms of their historical formation, relevance and interrelation with the national interests of the country. Special attention is paid to existing modern ways of protection against internal and external threats to the economic development of countries in order to preserve their national interests. It should be noted that in today's conditions it is difficult to establish a single system of protection of national interests of countries through the chosen system of economic security, as each of them has its own strategic intentions for future development and is under the influence of external and internal factors, which are inherent in the specific environment of economic development. At the same time, all of them are united by the common task of strengthening economic security in order to ensure compliance with national interests. That is, directions for strengthening economic security for one country do not always correspond to the national interests of another, therefore it is advisable to modernise the content of the segments of economic security on the basis of today's realities, which will contribute to a more objective understanding of the system of protection against external and internal threats to the development of economic cycles of countries and will have a positive impact on the preservation of their national interests. Results. Economic security is a priority tool for protecting the national interests of countries, the implementation of measures to strengthen it leads to the creation of an effective system of prevention of negative impact of external and internal content on the economic cycles of their development. Achieving the intended strategic economic goals of development of countries, ensuring the preservation of their national interests is impossible without the implementation of an effective system of protection against negative factors influencing their development. Therefore, the inclusion of economic security in the list of priority tools for protecting national interests as an economic category and modernisation of its content, in the authors' opinion, will contribute to a more objective understanding of the content of measures aimed at levelling various threats arising in the system of economic development of countries. On the basis of the research conducted, the authors believe that the use of the economic security system to preserve and protect the national interests of countries is connected with the implementation of such directions as the introduction and modernisation of the theoretical and methodological content of the methods and techniques of the economic security system (model); the selection and filling of the economic security system with the latest segments (models); the development of directions for the protection of national interests with the participation of the economic security system at the level of the governments of countries, in accordance with the chosen system (model) of economic security.
The factor of scientific and innovation-information development of the country has a significant impact on the level of its economic security. The article presents an analysis of science, innovation ...and information systems development in Russia, as they are one of the most important factors of the economic security of the state. An assessment of the leading and lagging regions in terms of innovation activity of organisations and volume of research and development was made. Also, directions for development were identified which require additional detailed study of science, innovation and information systems development at the level of federal districts with respect to their specific features and implementation of national projects. The obtained data are the basis for further assessment of the Russian economic security level within the framework of the National Security Strategy.
City competitiveness is a complex product of local and international conditions, local characteristics, social and economic superstructure, and the actions of individual companies. Although many ...scientific studies have examined the country’s and urban competitiveness, the competitiveness of port cities still needs to be assessed comprehensively, taking into account their crucial economic role. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the competitiveness and economic security of the Baltic port cities (Klaipėda, Riga, and Tallinn). Statistical processing and multi-criteria evaluation methods (SAW, COPRAS, and TOPSIS) were chosen to achieve this goal. The comparative analysis showed that the population change in port cities is not significant for the final result of the competitiveness assessment, and the unemployment rate in port cities is lower than in the country. The assessment of the competitiveness of port cities from the point of view of economic security shows (after checking such indicators as unemployment rate, company income, and infrastructure) that Tallinn is the most competitive port city according to the three multi-criteria evaluation methods, while Klaipėda is the least competitive. The assessment was carried out in three stages to monitor changes in the situation of port cities, compared to changes in a certain indicator and the costs of timely solutions or the improvement of the city’s position in relation to other cities.
More than $100 billion in Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding was intended to support financially stressed health care providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The ...distribution of the CARES Act's Provider Relief Fund among psychiatrists is poorly understood. Analyzing funding received by 2,593 psychiatric care organizations (PCOs), the authors found that funding was more equally distributed across care organizations of different sizes in psychiatry versus other specialties. Substantially less relief funding was received by PCOs per provider relative to other specialties. This disparity in relief funding is surprising given that specific earmarks of the CARES Act were intended to improve U.S. mental health care capacity, meriting further attention.
The subject of the article is theoretical-methodological and methodical aspects of the science of economic security and its social subsystem. The aim of the article is to reveal the essence and ...substantiation of the theoretical foundations of the science of economic security, to determine the main subsystems of the science of economic security and to consider its social component. The methodological basis of the article were both general and special methods of scientific knowledge. The article used scientific research methods: dialectical – to substantiate the definition apparatus and the content of theoretical positions; abstract-logical – to determine the essence of the science of economic security; hypothetical-deductive – to build basic working hypotheses; system-structural analysis and synthesis – to identify the composition of the main subsystems and the disclosure of the social subsystem of the science of economic security.Results of work. The article considers the theoretical foundations and essence of the science of economic security. Ten basic elements of the structure of the category "economic security" are identified and disclosed. There are four main subsystems of economic security: methodological and instrumental, empirical and theoretical, information and communication and social subsystems. The social subsystem of the science of economic security, which is characterized by the social potential of science, the share of scientists in the professional structure of society, is analyzed.Field of application of results. The conclusions and results obtained in the article should be used in scientific activities and further research of topical issues of the science of economic security, in the educational and scientific process of higher education institutions in training specialists in the specialty 8.18010014 "Management of financial and economic security" in the field of financial and economic security of the state, region, economic entities of various forms of ownership. Conclusions. Security is a general historical and social category that encompasses the entire history and future of mankind, is crucial for the existence of both the individual and society at any level. Economic security studies the patterns of effective security of economic systems at all levels, timely detection, prevention and neutralization of real and potential, internal and external threats to economic interests of relevant actors. Economic security as a polysystem phenomenon has: methodological-instrumental, empirical-theoretical, information-communicative and social subsystems. The social potential of science is important part of the science.
This research aims to analyze the form of security threats built through the relational relationship between refugees, UKIP, and Euroscepticism in the UK, as well as the formation of the discourse of ...security threats that occurred in the UK in 2016, using the theories of securitization, economic security, and Euroscepticism. The research method used in this article is descriptive-analytic, with data collection techniques in the form of a literature review sourced from books, journals, articles, official internet sites, and reports related to this research. The results of this study show that the presence of refugees in the UK creates economic inequality due to unequal economic distribution and is signaled as an economic threat as a referent object. The entry of Euroscepticism in the UK has influenced the public opinion of the UK society, which makes it easier for the right-wing party UKIP to exist and be popular
Today, in the conditions of martial law in Ukraine and of the deficit of the State budget, the issue of ensuring the economic security of the State as a component of national security is the highest ...priority and of big importance. Ensuring the economic security of the country is the prerogative of the State, and it should be supported by the entire system of the State bodies, especially law enforcement ones, among which the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine (ESBU) plays a key role. In order to identify risks that weaken the economic security of the State, the ESBU uses a risk-oriented approach in its work, which is an identifier of the risks of committing criminal offenses in the budgetary, tax, customs, monetary, and investment spheres of the economy. Also, based on the results of the risk assessment, the ESBU develops and implements measures aimed at minimizing or eliminating them. Therefore, taking into account the external and internal threats to the country’s economy, the issue of applying a risk-oriented approach to identify the risks of committing criminal offenses in the field of economics is relevant, needs to be researched and remains a priority for both business and the State as a whole. The objectives of the study are: analysis of the results of the ESBU’s activities; disclosure of the procedure for the introduction and use of a risk-oriented approach in the work of the ESBU units; determination of the feasibility and benefits of using this approach in order to identify the risk of committing criminal offenses in the field of economy and prevent threats that affect the economic security of the State. The place, role and main tasks of the ESBU are considered: identification of risk areas in the field of economy; protection of public finances of the State; assessment of risks and threats to the economic security of the State; development of ways to minimize and eliminate them. It is determined that the most effective in the work of the ESBU analytical units is a risk-oriented approach, which makes it possible to predict threats and promptly take measures to prevent and/or counteract them. An analysis of the risks identified by the ESBU in the field of economy is carried out. It is found that the tax and customs spheres are the most risky for the country’s economy, since they account for almost 2/3 of all identified risks (72%). The necessity and expediency of using a risk-oriented approach in the work of the ESBU is substantiated, taking into account the requirements of the time and international experience. A model for managing risks of economic security of the State using a risk-oriented approach has been proposed. It is proved that today, in the conditions of war, there is a threat to the economic security of the State, and the key role in the protection of the latter is assigned to the ESBU.
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