DEMOGRAPHY AS A CRITICAL AREA

Gagik Harutyunyan

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The dire demographic situation in RoA should be perceived as a primary challenge to national security and a status of “critical” must be ascribed to this area. Alleviating migration and improving the demographic situation is possible only with special attention focused on establishment of technological “critical infrastructures” in the context of the development strategy.

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AS A FACTOR FOR IMPROVEMENT OF THE DEMOGRAPHIC SITUATION AND ITS TRENDS IN ARMENIA

Samvel Manukyan

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The article presents the demographic situation in Armenia in 2013 and its dynamic trends, based on which an estimate of Armenia’s population in 2030 is provided. The impacts of the country’s economic parameters, such as unemployment level, wages, satisfaction with family’s financial situation and annual GDP growth on the population migration balance and reproductive behavior were assessed. In the framework of a geo-systemic analysis the industrial policy of the country and the importance of its nature for changing the demographic situation in Armenia are demonstrated.

INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION POLICY OF ARMENIA AS THE BASIS TO IMPROVE ITS COMPETITIVENESS

Ashot Tevikyan

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The article discusses the need for economic policy involving a sophisticated internal mechanisms and institutions to ensure the development, with a focus on innovation and industrial development along with the extensive cooperation with leading companies of the EEU, which would increase the country's competitiveness and contribute to its economic development.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS COUNTRIES: A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

Karen Veranyan

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The scientific and technological progress is an important, if not the most important prerequisite for economic development of any country. This objective of this study is to compare research and development activities of South Caucasus countries, explicate the major trends of the recent years and uncover the main problems in the area of research, development and technologies in our country based on analysis of quantitative and statistical data. It is expected to invite a deeper attention on prospects of science and its development in Armenia.

ALEXANDER MYASNIKYAN AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SECOND REPUBLIC

Avag Harutyunyan

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Alexander Myasnikyan was concerned with the destiny of Soviet Armenia and the newly emerged Diaspora, and he was an exceptional leader in Transcaucasia and USSR, who could solve problems in the region because of the position he occupied. He lavished care and attention upon people of literature and art and attached great importance to the development of the education system. As one of the founders of Soviet Armenian statehood, he focused much of his attention on the political destiny of Armeniancy, living arrangements for refugees and organizing repatriation. Myasnikyan is the founder of Diaspora Studies in Soviet Armenia.

MODERNIZATION, SCIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, HUMAN CAPITAL AND SOLUTIONS TO THE DEMOGRAPHIC PROBLEMS: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE REGIONAL COUNTRIES

Sevak Sarukhanyan

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The article uses the examples of Iran and Saudi Arabia to review the experience of national strategies modernization for development in the countries of the region, as well as the importance of education and science in implementation such strategies. Issues related to the patterns of Islamic revolution in Iran are discussed, along with proportions of progressive and regressive trends between the periods of the Shah’s rule and “white revolution”. The same issues are reviewed for Saudi Arabia with particular emphasis on the lack of development of liberal arts in this country, and at the same time promotion of scientific research in technologies and exact sciences as one of the vectors of “Saudization”.

THE IDEOLOGY OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Igor Bagiryan

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Analysis of the current economic and financial situation in Armenia leads to an unequivocal conclusion that the national economic system is essentially absent, and only some separate, loosely connected fragments exist. Such situation can be characterized only as catastrophic from the perspective of national security. The process of creating an economic system of Armenia has to commence as soon as possible at the government level. In Russia, a law on strategic planning has been enacted. If its analogue is adopted in Armenia, then the first subject for its application must be establishment of close ties between large businesses, small knowledge-based and regular businesses, education/science, venture capital, banking system and population.