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<article xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">kaspy</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">THE CASPIAN REGION: politics, economics, culture</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="electronic" /><issn publication-format="print">1818-510X</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="ru">Астраханский государственный университет им. В. Н. Татищева</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1418</article-id><title-group xml:lang="ru"><article-title>Special economic zone as a policy instrument economic openness of the country (on the example of the SEZ «Lotus»)</article-title></title-group><title-group xml:lang="en"><article-title>Special economic zone as a policy instrument economic openness of the country (on the example of the SEZ «Lotus»)</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Chapkovskaya</surname><given-names>E.A.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Chapkovskaya</surname><given-names>E.A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>katerin2128@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2392" /></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff2392"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Astrakhan State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Astrakhan State University</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub"><year>2016</year></pub-date><issue>1</issue><fpage>123</fpage><lpage>127</lpage><history /><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2016/issue/1/article/1418">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2016/issue/1/article/1418</self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/1(46)/123-127.pdf" content-type="pdf">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/1(46)/123-127.pdf</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>In the context of globalization of the world economy for most countries are becoming increasingly important problems related to ensuring of openness of national economies, their integration into the world economy. Due to this, they seek to extract economic benefits from participation in the international division of labor. One of such effective tools that promote the involvement of national economies into the world economy, the recovery of foreign trade, became a special economic zone (SEZ), which allow countries to implement, first of all, regional advantages in accelerating economic growth, socio-economic development of territories. In the Astrakhan region in 2014 launched a special economic zone В«LotusВ», which aims to contribute to the strengthening of economic positions of Russia in the Caspian region.</p></abstract><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>In the context of globalization of the world economy for most countries are becoming increasingly important problems related to ensuring of openness of national economies, their integration into the world economy. Due to this, they seek to extract economic benefits from participation in the international division of labor. One of such effective tools that promote the involvement of national economies into the world economy, the recovery of foreign trade, became a special economic zone (SEZ), which allow countries to implement, first of all, regional advantages in accelerating economic growth, socio-economic development of territories. In the Astrakhan region in 2014 launched a special economic zone В«LotusВ», which aims to contribute to the strengthening of economic positions of Russia in the Caspian region.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>особая экономическая зона</kwd><kwd>Астраханская область</kwd><kwd>ОЭЗ «Лотос»</kwd><kwd>инвестиции</kwd><kwd>Каспийский регион</kwd><kwd>экономика</kwd><kwd>special economic zone</kwd><kwd>Astrakhan region</kwd><kwd>SEZ “Lotus”</kwd><kwd>investment</kwd><kwd>Caspian region</kwd><kwd>economy</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>особая экономическая зона</kwd><kwd>Астраханская область</kwd><kwd>ОЭЗ «Лотос»</kwd><kwd>инвестиции</kwd><kwd>Каспийский регион</kwd><kwd>экономика</kwd><kwd>special economic zone</kwd><kwd>Astrakhan region</kwd><kwd>SEZ “Lotus”</kwd><kwd>investment</kwd><kwd>Caspian region</kwd><kwd>economy</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group xml:lang="ru"><funding-statement /></funding-group><funding-group xml:lang="en"><funding-statement /></funding-group></article-meta></front><body /><back><ref-list /></back></article>