Sustainable development of the regions – the key the successful functioning of the state

Abstract

This article is dedicated to the sustainable development of the regions.
Under the sustainable development of the region, we understand the complex
process that finally helps to solve the problems of the population at the regional
level, leading to an improvement in the living conditions of people in the region
by ensuring a balanced socio - economic and environmental development,
carried out on the basis of rational use of all the region’s resource potential,
including geographical features as well as features of the economy, infrastructure,
industry, and the potential of the individual cities, related to the region.
In order to achieve sustainable development is necessary to implement such a
mechanism of economic management in the region, the central idea is to “provide
equal opportunities to all areas in order to achieve them equal conditions
of life and work and the leveling of their social and economic development.”
It follows that a regional policy to ensure sustainable development, should be
based on a combination of three interdependent areas: economic, social and
environmental. As part of the President’s Address to the people of Kazakhstan
“Strategy” Kazakhstan - 2050 “: the program until 2020 was developed regions.
This program is a kind of “doctrine” of the new regional policy. There are several
problems hindering the development of the regions.