Mechanisms of development stimulation of the depressed territories of Ukraine: institutional aspects

Abstract

The existing normative legal base of Ukraine which regulates the mechanisms of defining the depressed areas of different types and measures for  their activation is analyzed;  the world experience of problem territories support is briefly characterized; the factors that prevent from making efficient mechanisms of development stimulation of problem regions in Ukraine are determined; the level of financing the sanitation actions of the depressed areas are defined; the gist of new approaches to the problem of activating the development of depressed territories of different types is divulged;  the essence, sources and volumes of financing, the priority targets and tasks of the existing regional development agreements concluded between some territories and the Cabinet of Ukraine are analyzed; the possible ways of mechanisms improvement of stimulation of Ukrainian depressed areas development are described.