Murzanovskyi H. Organizational and economic support for the development of local and regional self-government in Ukraine

The thesis is dedicated to the development of the organizational and economic support for the reform of local and regional self-government in Ukraine. At the beginning of 2014, local and regional self-government in Ukraine was burdened with a number of problems in terms of excessive centralisation of powers and financial and material resources, low level of capacity of communities, high level of differentiation of socio-economic development of regions, lack of effective management mechanisms. The process of reforming local and regional self-government in Ukraine is complex and involves a thorough and fundamental change of the system of state and local government, the creation of self-sufficient entities at all levels. However, the government narrowed the scope of the reform to the creation of united territorial communities and the transfer of powers to them from the district level. As incentives for their creation, the principle of voluntary formation and a significant increase in their own revenues by transferring them from the district level were proposed, but without economic calculations regarding the possibility of fulfilling their new powers were proposed. Inefficient state regional policy has led to the growth of differences between regions in terms of the level of socio-economic development, ineffective use of European experience in regional development and relevant mechanisms and tools. All these problems were complicated by imperfect legal and institutional support. Abovementioned determined the relevance of the topic of the dissertation.