With an eye to the future

In the Program of activities of the Government of the Republic of Belarus for the period until 2025 it is planned to pay great attention to the implementation of the strategy of regional development so that by the end of the new five-year period the number of lagging behind regions in the country would be reduced by 18. To this end it is planned to implement investment projects in towns and districts with the population of 80000 or more to prepare industrial sites and create the infrastructure for setting up two-three new enterprises that have no analogues in the country as well as to establish one or two medium-size industrial enterprises in each district. The regions lagging behind will be granted a certain set of benefits for the creation of new breakthrough industries while efficiency will be the cornerstone for the launch of a new investment cycle. In other words at least one new efficiently operating company is to appear in each region. It should be said that concrete steps are being taken to successfully implement the set plans in the Belarusian regions. How does it happen in practice? This is discussed in the materials of this study.