Socio-economic development of territorial units in the conditions of decentralization

Kozak Lyudmila
PhD in Economics, Professor, Head of Economics Department, National Transport University, Ukraine, e-mail: lskozak1@gmail.com, ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3995-172X

Chkalova Tamara
Postgraduate student of Economics Department, National Transport University, Ukraine, e-mail: tchkalova7@gmail.com, ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1003-0484

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Kozak, L., Chkalova, T. (2022). Socio-economic development of territorial units in the conditions of decentralization [Sotsialno-ekonomichnyi rozvytok terytorialnykh odynyts v umovakh detsentralizatsii], Socio-economic research bulletin, Vìsnik socìal’no-ekonomìčnih doslìdžen’ (ISSN 2313-4569), Odessa National Economic University, Odessa, No. 1-2 (80-81), pp. 50-59.

Abstract

The article is devoted to actual issues of decentralization reform implementation, local self-government development, resource management, and revenue and expenditure part of the community budget formation. The impact of decentralization reform on the regional development policy formation is considered, and systemic approaches to the integration of these directions of state policy are proposed. The foreign experience of Poland, France, Latvia, and Italy is analyzed; the main ways of decentralization in foreign countries are highlighted through the prism of determining effective mechanisms of influence on economic development with the aim of forming a model for reforms implementation in Ukraine. Recommendations for the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals at the local level as a basis for integration of spatial and regional development are provided. Approaches to assessing the impact of decentralization on the socio-economic development of regions are formed; examples of disclosure of the decentralization potential for the development of certain regions are given. A number of recommendations on the successful continuation of decentralization reform and its transformation into an incentive for effective regional development policy formation are proposed. A number of actual issues of the territorial organization reform of power and local self-government on the basis of decentralization and subsidiarity are identified. Approaches to the creation of the Institute for Supervision over the legality of decisions of local self-government authorities are proposed. The degree of integrity of the regional policy of Ukraine into the regional policy of the European Union is determined. The practical value of the research is that its results can be used to study and research the decentralization reform and ways of its improvement.

Keywords

decentralization; territorial communities; local authorities; resources; revenues; expenditures; budget.

JEL classification:R110; R120; DOI: https://doi.org/10.33987/vsed.1-2(80-81).2022.50-59

UD classification: 334.012.74:332.13

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