Abstract
The purpose of the article is to summarize and present strategic priorities and mechanisms for ensuring the competitiveness of regions in decentralization. The sequence of actions, the algorithm that will determine the strategic importance of development and select appropriate means to ensure the area's competitiveness. Methodology. The SWOT-analysis method is based on the analysis of factors and factors of competitive advantages of regions with the help of fundamental parameters (accessibility, the economic feasibility of use; sufficient transport potential; involvement of the local population in resource development). To determine the priorities of directed financial flows, the structure of community expenditures was considered (Velykomostyska city Amalgamated hromada as a representative of Amalgamated hromada with a city centre; Solonkivska rural Amalgamated hromada as a representative of Amalgamated hromada – a satellite of a large city; Slavske village Amalgamated hromada as a representative of Amalgamated hromada tourism). The effective use of tools has been identified, and the priorities facing the region (including Amalgamated hromada) need to be clearly defined to achieve enhanced competitive advantages. Results. Results show that an additional mechanism to strengthen competitive advantage is the inclusion of local producers of products or services in the global chain of multinational companies while considering the threat of significant dependence on foreign markets. The implementation of mechanisms must include at least two components: financial, economic and organizational. All measures include synchronization of actions of local authorities, public organizations, business to ensure mechanisms for implementing strategic development programs based on analytical research and monitoring in the context of adaptation to global challenges, the need to implement the rules of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU. Practical implications. The active position of the community in defining strategic priorities and clearly defining the mechanism for strengthening the competitive advantages of Amalgamated hromada will significantly improve the quality of life and, consequently, the attractiveness of the territory for potential residents. Increasing the population intensifies the development of the social sphere and the sphere of trade, which will increase revenues to the community budget. Thus, a clear vision of the community leadership of strategic guidelines allows the community to develop faster than before the reform. Value/originality. Strategic priorities and mechanisms for ensuring the competitiveness of regions in the context of decentralization of power provide a better understanding of their effectiveness by the budget process of the area or Amalgamated hromada.
Highlights
The practise of increasing the competitiveness of territories, as well as the study of foreign experience on this issue, showed the need to find new forms and methods to increase community competitiveness, develop a systematic approach to identifying strategic competitiveness goals, and implementing measures to achieve them
Decentralization processes consist of redistribution of responsibilities, powers and financial flows from the state to the regional level
When forming a decision on defining strategic priorities, first of all, it is necessary to determine: – the purpose of managing the region – what is the value created for the region; – identif y a system of factors that affect regional potentials and their transformation, which are determined by the actual quantitative and qualitative availability, as well as management efficiency; – to determine the person responsible for developing the organizational component, which will be tasked with the main tasks of implementing the strategy of the region through mechanisms to ensure regional competitiveness
Summary
The practise of increasing the competitiveness of territories, as well as the study of foreign experience on this issue, showed the need to find new forms and methods to increase community competitiveness, develop a systematic approach to identifying strategic competitiveness goals, and implementing measures to achieve them. Tive advantages is the key to the effective functioning of the united territorial community, including the achievement of such results as increased revenues to the community budget, efficient use of natural, demographic, financial, infrastructural, and other resources to achieve community self-sufficiency and meet all needs. In today's conditions of decentralization, ensuring the competitiveness of local communities is a difficult problem because the level of socio-economic development of newly created communities differs dozens of times, and budget revenues can not meet all the needs of the community. Strategic priorities and mechanisms for ensuring the competitiveness of regions in the context of decentralization of power in Ukraine since 2014 are natural processes of Ukraine's transition to liberal conditions of functioning in the economic environment and the economic environment in the socio-political one. Especially in the era of decentralization processes, the priority areas in which the newly received revenues from the redistribution of the revenue part of the Consolidated Budget of Ukraine will be spent become significant decentralization of power
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