Пономаренко Елена

The topical issues of the modern contradictory development of the financial markets are considered in the article, the presence of stable and developed financial markets, on the one hand, is indicated as having a positive impact on the economic development and growth, however, the development of the financial markets is connected with the increasing risks of instability and emergence of the crisis phenomena An important evaluation criterion of the development of the financial market of an individual country in the context of globalization is the activity of large, recognized financial centers on its territory. The second part of the article is devoted to the international comparison of the most famous financial centers in the world. The comparative analysis of the development of the regional financial markets and international financial centers is of interest, basing on this analysis the position of Moscow is ranked from the standpoint of the prospects of creating in Russia the international financial center.

The article is dedicated to the comparative analysis of positions of France and Russia on the global market of higher education services, challenges of competition in terms of internationalization, as well as to the analysis of contemporary forms of innovative education. Special attention is paid to the development of the most competitive forms of international higher education: double diploma programs, online universities, joint research projects and the formation of a new national university based on the cluster approach as an educational scientific center and the core of regional development.

The article, being basedon research results, discusses the current development of international joint educational programmes and their implementation models and illustrates this process using the example of cooperation between RANEPA and its partner university - the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis.

В первой части статьи (№5, 2010) автором представлена теория циклов мировых экономических кризисов, их история и типология. Изложены ключевые позиции концепций Дж. Китчина, К. жуглара, С. Кузнеца, Н.Д. Кондратьева, Ф. Броделя. Разработана классификация внешних и внутренних факторов циклов. Показаны меры предупреждения кризисов, принятые видными экономистами XIX-XX вв.