Modern Approaches to the Countries Sustainable Development
The article presents a review of the evolution in approaches to assessing the countries sustainable development in the world and Russian practice. The presented research includes an analysis of the world practice assessment for the effectiveness in sustainable development, relevant methodologies, indicators and their modifications in modern conditions. The author characterizes the current issues in developing indicators for measuring the sustainable state of countries with different levels of development. She also highlights difficulties in the cross-country comparison of those indicators and considers the most important aspects of the sustainable development assessment, such as indicators and investments. The main directions and approaches to the sustainable development assessment for Russia are determined at the current trends of the national economy development.