Agrarian Economy 2019 Т. 12 № 1-2:24-31

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL AREAS UNDER CONDITIONS OF DECENTRALIZATION

Dubnevych Yu., PhD, Associate Professor
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4843-6239
Lviv National Agrarian University,
Deputy Head of Zhovkva District State Administration in the Lviv region

Dubnevych N., Senior Lecturer
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0210-9443
Lviv National Agrarian University

Dorosh U., Postgraduate Student
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0420-3310
Lviv Regional Institute of Public Administration of the National Academy for Public
Administration under the President of Ukraine

https://doi.org/10.31734/agrarecon2019.01.024

ANNOTATION

The current state of rural areas development of Ukraine remains at a rather low level, which has been largely consequenced by the insufficient level of effective agricultural mechanisms, being the main sphere of employment in the rural areas and the incompleteness of the initiated decentralization reform. issue of the matter is the implementation of the concept of sustainable development of rural areas, taking into account the needs of environmental protection for current and future generations, which is especially relevant in the context of globalization. At current stage the search for opportunities to increase the efficiency of decentralization processes and finalize the respective reform seem particularly attractive. The distinction of decentralization reform in Ukraine is that, unlike, for example, Poland, the process of UTC association is currently voluntary. At the regional level there is still a tendency to underestimate the role of rural areas in the overall structure of the Ukrainian regions’ economy. In recent years, within the framework of decentralization reform, there has been a reboot of national regional policy based on European experience. In the future, increasing the competitiveness of the regions and the priority of countryside development should be ensured through the implementation of a number ofdefined tasks. At present, the process of decentralizing rural areas has slowed down, but the results of the completed phase can already be felt, especially the financial ones, since decentralization presupposes the transfer of both the authority and finances from the state authorities to local governments. Decentralization of local self-government opens new opportunities for enhancing the potential of rural development and creating positive management results at the local level, establishing an effective system of administrative services provision and development of territorial communities, enabling efficient and adequate management of real-life priority needs and based on this ensure effective sustainable development of rural areas. We can conclude that there are all the reasons to expect a significant increase in the number of UTCs in the near future, since there are practically no objective reasons for slowing down the process of territorial communities association. It is necessary: bring the initiated reform to a logical conclusion; transfer powers from state executive bodies to community administrations; transform the regional state administrations into prefectures, as planned; accelerate sectoral decentralization in health, education, culture, social services, energy efficiency and other sectors.

KEY WORDS

decentralization, sustainable development of rural areas, finances

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Article received 16.05.2019.