Directions of increasing the competitiveness of the national economy through sustainable development of human capital
Abstract. The article investigates approaches to determining the competitiveness of the national economy, suggests possible ways to improve it, which include the development of infrastructure, improving the investment climate, increasing the level of human capital, promoting innovations, small and medium-sized businesses. The concept of sustainable development and its main components are given. Sustainable development implies the maintenance of the ecological, socio-economic balance. Such development should meet needs of the current generation, but not harm the ability of future generations to meet their needs. The connection of sustainable development with human capital, which is a set of accumulated human knowledge, skills, abilities and his health, is revealed. Particular attention is paid to the issue of investing in human capital and the study of its development factors. Such investments are carried out in education, healthcare, affect the development of innovations, social inclusion. The authors also assessed the development level of the human capital of the Russian Federation. Based on the results of the assessment, it was concluded that it is necessary to develop measures to improve the state of human capital development. The issue of further improvement of the education system as the main factor of increasing human capital is especially important. In conclusion, the conclusions summarizing this study are made.
Keywords: competitiveness, sustainable development, human capital, level of human capital development
Highlights:
♦ the key areas of increasing the national competitiveness of the Russian economy are infrastructure development, improvement of the investment climate, human capital development, promotion of innovations, development of small and medium-sized businesses;
♦ sustainable development is based on the "triple goal", which includes such components as economic sustainability, environmental sustainability, social justice;
♦ sustainable development and human capital are interrelated.
Elena S. Shilets, Victoria A. Kravchenko, Alina O. Sukhinina - Donetsk State University, Donetsk, Russia