Miroshnychenko T. Development of Economic Cooperation of SCO Countries in the Context of World Integration Processes

The dissertation is devoted to deepening of theoretical and methodological foundations of research of development of economic cooperation of SCO countries in the context of world integration processes and substantiation of priorities of economic cooperation of Ukraine with SCO countries. Based on the study of the economic interaction of the SCO countries, its institutional and functional format was developed. The specific features of the economic interaction of the SCO countries are characterized. In order to comprehensively evaluate the foreign trade flows of the SCO countries within the framework of the integration association and the degree of influence on them of the level of economic development and other indicators, a system of multivariate models of foreign trade of the SCO countries was constructed and their regression analysis was carried out, which made it possible to substantiate the vectors of prospective economic interaction: logistic and innovation-investment. On the basis of a comprehensive study of factors of development of foreign trade activity and construction of the gravitational model of export and import flows of Ukraine and SCO countries, the priorities of economic cooperation of Ukraine with SCO countries have been substantiated.