Chernyuk O. The improvement of the system of administrative and territorial management in Ukraine.

Dissertation presents theoretical-methodological and practical issues of formation of the qualitatively new paradigm of regional economic transformations within the period of transition toward market. The work also substantiates main avenues to improve foreign-economic activities of the regional economic systems in the period of transformation as well as proposes. This PhD Thesis studies problems in the system of administrative and territorial management in Ukraine, and development of local self-governance. The work also discusses peculiarities of inter-budget relations between bodies of local self-governance. It also analyses prospective for further development. A new model of relations between state and bodies of local self-governance has been developed. A justification for new ways of territorial development is presented in this study. The work also proposes a universal classification of regional division of Ukraine.