Olena M. Regional peculiarities of the development of the commerce and consumer sphere

Object – social-economic processes of functioning of the trade-consumer infrastructure in the market transformations; purpose – extension of theoretical and methodological approaches while substantiating ways aimed at the improvement of the development and location of the trade-consumer infrastructure at the regional level; methods – systematic-structural, monographic, graphic, comparative, economic-statistic, classification, econometric modeling; innovation – the essence of the trade-consumer infrastructure is defined, factors of its territorial organization are updated, the system of indices of its social and economic efficacy is improved, a methodological approach towards determining the integral index of the infrastructure development is suggested; outcomes – directions focused at improving of the development and location of the trade-consumer infrastructure are grounded regarding the innovation approach system as well as its adoption to the economic practice.