Assessment of sustainable socio-economic development of the single-industry Zhezkazgan town

Abstract

The article analyzes the sustainable social-economic development of Zhezkazgan town in the period 2016 to 2020, gives an assessment of the integral indicator of the development of a single-industry town.

The methodology of assessing the state of sustainable development of the city based on the calculation of integral indicators of social, economic and infrastructure development is presented. The main social-economic indicators Zhezkazgan are used as data, which are obtained from the Bureau of National Statistics of the Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

To calculate the integral indicators of development in the directions, the weighting coefficients of the social, economic and infrastructural development of the town were first determined. The developed methodological approach has been tested in the conditions of the single-industry Zhezkazgan town. According to the results of analysis and assessment of dynamics of integral indicators, recommendations to increase the sustainability of the development of the monocity are given.