Kushnirenko O. Government support of cross-border cooperation development

The object is the processes of formation and development of cross-border cooperation in Ukraine. The objective is a complex study of features of government support of cross-border cooperation development as subsystem of general government regulation of economy and investigation of mechanisms of its functioning. The methods are classification and systematization, structurally-functional, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, comparative analysis. The newness is that the theoreticaly-methodological approaches of public administration to the improvement of process of forming and providing of government support to cross-border cooperation development are grounded. The results are that conceptual principles of creation at state level of favourable legal and financial-economic terms for the increase of efficiency and effectiveness of cross-border cooperation are improved; a concept "The Government Support of Cross-Border Cooperation Development" is specified; an experience of the European cross-border associations in relation to the use of mechanism of the government support of cross-border cooperation development is generalized and systematized.