Regional economic threats in the context of sustainable economic development
ENPurpose of the article. Present scientific researches and current debates focus on the direction of countries‘ economic growth, including regional, and its main factors. The article argues that the development of each country‘s economy is associated with a multidisciplinary phenomenon of security, which creates preconditions for sustainable economic development. The economic security hierarchy in the XXI century includes many subjects, such as: global and regional institutions, the state, the region, the community, the firm, the family and the individual. Practice shows that all entities in the hierarchical level face a variety of threats. In the article, threats are classified according to various criteria (nature, origin, source / cause, location of manifestation, type of manifestation, direction of action, duration, etc.). Threats of social origin, which decisions require solutions; human, material and financial resources and time are being analyzed. Subjects of different hierarchical levels make appropriate decisions in order to eliminate or reduce threats of various levels (economic, political, social, ecological, etc.). Objective or subjective decision errors occur due to lack of information or uncertainty. The economic, social, ecological threats that arise in the regions of Lithuania are investigated in several aspects: macroeconomic and mezoeconomic levels. The macroeconomic level analyzes the state budget deficit, the share of imports in domestic consumption, the poverty index in the country, shadow economy, migration, the Gini coefficient, etc. The poverty index is characterized on the mezoeconomic level in the regions of Lithuania; unemployment rate, including long-term unemployment [p. 102]. Key words: income inequality; sustainable economic development; regional economic threats; unemployment; criteria of threats.
