PROBLEMS OF ASSESSING THE TOTAL REGIONAL POTENTIAL

The problem of developing a methodological apparatus for assessing the aggregate potential of a region or territory has been and continues to be in the focus of attention of scientific economists, since reliable information on the magnitude of potential capabilities of regions is important in strategic planning for the development of the territory. Modern research and clarification of the concept of «the aggregate potential of the region» contribute to the emergence of new qualitative and quantitative factors that must be taken into account when calculating the resulting indicator, while the aggregate potential of the region cannot be equated to the sum of the assessments of sub-potentials or the total assessment of the economic resources of the territory. The paper considers the main factors that impede the work on methodological tools, in particular, a large number of subpotentials that have some overlap and duplication in the implementation of the assessment; the need to take into account the specifics of the functioning of each region; the presence of qualitative aspects of subpotentials, which are almost impossible to measure using quantitative indicators; heterogeneity of indicators in terms of their meters. The author considered the main approaches to determining the total potential of a region, including a ranking approach, a multi-level approach and a method of analyzing hierarchies, an abstract review of these approaches, an approach to assessing the total potential of a region based on calculating the average value, and outlining the main directions of transformation of existing approaches for obtaining on their basis the resulting assessment of the total potential of the region.