UDC 332.02:332.1; JEL O18, R11, R58
Zhuk, P. V. (2021). Hirs'ki problemni terytoriyi Ukrayins'kykh Karpat: identyfikatsiya ta stymulyuvannya rozvytku [Mountain problem areas of Ukrainian Carpathians: identification and development stimulation]. Rehional'na ekonomika - Regional Economy, 101 (3), 57-66. DOI: https://doi.org/10.36818/1562-0905-2021-3-6. [in Ukrainian].
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Authors



Zhuk Petro Volodymyrovych

Ph.D. of Economics, Senior Researcher

Leading Researcher of the Department of regional ecological policy and environmental management of the Dolishniy Institute of Regional Research of NAS of Ukraine

Contacts: pzhuk@ukr.net, (032)270-7037

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Resume

The 2021-2027 State Regional Development Strategy considers, among others, mountain areas of the Ukrainian Carpathians as areas characterized by specific socio-economic development problems and requiring territorially directed support. The paper outlines the substantiated and suggested by the author methodological approaches to determining the types of problem mountain areas and tools of external support of their development. According to the provisions of the 2021-2027 State Regional Development Strategy, the list of mountain areas of region is outlined. A range of criteria (economic capacity, unemployment, dynamics of the population), indicators, and their parameters are suggested to group mountain areas by their socio-economic development levels. The economic capacity of mountain territorial communities of the Ukrainian Carpathians region is calculated. Three groups of communities are determined based on the calculations: I – reasonably developed communities with average and above-average socio-economic development level (community budget revenues level per capita not less than 90% of the average rate for Ukraine); II – problem communities with socio-economic development level below average (50-90%); III – crisis communities with limited economic capacities (less than half of the average rate in Ukraine). Economic tools of mountain policy are substantiated and offered by each of the allocated groups of areas. They include the strengthening of existing tools of horizontal budget alignment and fostering the participation of the State Regional Development Fund and international technical assistance tools, etc. in infrastructural development of the II group communities; introduction of the special investment activity regimen on the territories of the III group communities with the view to create new jobs for the residents of mountain areas.

Keywords:

mountain areas, competitiveness, development levels, grouping, support tools

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