Evaluation of the strategic plans' impact on the competitive attractiveness and sustainability of regional development

The study offers a methodic of the research and shows the empiric results of comparison by 2 indicators of competitive attractiveness and sustainability by two groups of regions that had or didn't have strategic plans in 2010.The necessity and usefulness of the research consequences of the importance of confirming or denying the hypothesis that strategic planning provides regions with optimization of socio-economic development, including the reducing the risks of losing competitive attractiveness and sustainability in external crisis situations. To test the hypothesis, a certain methodological sequence of actions and corresponding criteria and indicators are proposed to evaluate the development results of two groups of regions being compared. To increase the reliability of assessments by factors - economic, innovation, human potential and quality of life according to the formulated criteria for better reflection of each factor special indicators are selected. The article offers the mathematical apparatus of natural indicators' conversion in a dimensionless point form for an opportunity to summarize them in integral assessments on the basis of primary statistical indicators...