Socio-Economic Research Bulletin

26-41

Authors: Tetyana Gurgula

The article considers the administrative-territorial reform from the perspective of challenges and threats to the socio-economic development of territories and increases the level of well-being of the population. The basic principles of state regional policy are determined: systematic and complementary, and their characteristics are presented. The distribution of core powers between local governments in accordance with the Concept of reforming local government and territorial organization of authority in Ukraine has been carried out. Among the problems of modern system forming of local government organization, considerable attention is paid to reforming the local government system, which will determine the further stable development of Ukrainian society. Legal support of local authorities’ activity in Ukraine at the present stage requires the development of such a governance model that would be consistent with the principles of the European Charter of Local Self-Government and, first of all, clearly delineate the powers between the relevant branches of government regarding the performance of assigned functions. The aim of the article is to analyze the energy self-sufficiency of communities by reducing and replacing gas consumption, increasing of energy efficiency level in various spheres of vital activity of the population, and developing the renewable energetics of the territorial community. The planning of the communities’ transition to renewable energy sources (RES) is investigated. Baseline indicators are developed for decisions making in the energy sector regarding the transition to renewable energy sources in the community from the perspective of investors attracting. The energy efficiency and renewable energy sources support programs are analyzed. Mechanisms of energy efficiency support and the capacity increasing of the united territorial communities are proposed due to energy self-sufficiency.

58-71

Authors: Mariana Bil

The comprehensive analysis of migration activity of the population between Ukraine and Hungary, which is the basis for substantiating the priorities of its regulation in the defined territorial migration system, is carried out in the article. The study subject is theoretical and applied principles of analysis of migration activity of the population within a specific territorial migration system. The research methodology is formed by the fundamental provisions of analytical migration science with the definition of migration activity, which reflects the potential and real ability of the population to move. The article results are the deepening of the theoretical bases of the study of migration activity of the population, the method of complex migration analysis between Ukraine and Hungary with using the national and international statistical base. Complex analysis covers an identification of the features of infrastructure providing and legal environment of migration (visa regime, the operation of the agreement on the rules of local border traffic), tendencies of crossing the state border (Ukrainian and Hungarian statistics), including in the context of border crossing points, determination of educational and labor migration features, naturalization practices and residence of Ukrainian citizens on the Hungary territory. Particular attention is paid to the asymmetric questions of migration activity of the population between Ukraine and Hungary. Complex analysis is complemented by comparisons of demographic, social and economic indicators of countries. The specificity of migration activity of the population in the Ukrainian-Hungarian migration system on the basis of the conducted analysis is generalized – the primacy of ethnocultural determinants of displacement with influences localization on the residents of Transcarpathian region; rapid growth dynamics of the migrants number from Ukraine to Hungary. The main problems of migration activity of the population between Ukraine and Hungary are updated: political and legal character – dual citizenship of a part of the population of the Transcarpathian border regions, which can serve as an occasion for geopolitical speculation; informational character – the rapid growth in the number of Ukrainian citizens, who go to Hungary for long-term residence; socio-cultural character – influence of the «Greater Hungary» ideas on a part of the Transcarpathia population, especially the border regions, which identifies itself with the Hungarians, or as a last resort with the Ruthenians and does not speak Ukrainian.

85-104

Authors: Ruslan Volchek, Sergey Bolshakov

The article summarizes the results of the procedure of privatization of state property in Ukraine during 2015–2019. It is established, that one of the main obstacles that leads to short payment of funds from the privatization of state property to the state budget, compared to the planned targets, is the actual «free appropriation» of land plots by economic entities during the sale of real estate due to ambiguous interpretation of the provisions of the Land Code of Ukraine and the National Valuation Standard 2 «Real Estate Valuation». The subject of research – the mechanisms of privatization of state property. The purpose of the article is to develop tools to combat corruption during the privatization of land plots, thus ensuring the correct calculation and payment of taxes to the state budget of Ukraine from these agreements. Research methods – general scientific. It has been proven, that a corruption scheme associated with an illegal appropriation of a land plot begins with the acquisition by the business entity of the right to use it. An incorrect interpretation of the provisions of the Land Code of Ukraine in the future leads to the illegal acquisition by the user of the right of ownership to the specified land plot, avoiding the privatization procedure. It is substantiated, that corruption schemes occur as a result of extremely weak control over the activities of notaries and appraisers on the part of the main regulator of appraisal activities in Ukraine – the State Property Fund of Ukraine. A number of recommendations are formulated with the aim of preventing losses to the state during privatization. In particular, it is proposed to supplement the norms of legal framework in terms of a direct prohibition for notaries to register ownership of land plots, which belong to the state, without a privatization procedure. It is necessary to make changes to the regulatory framework of Ukraine in terms of enabling the appraiser to calculate the market value of land plots in the absence of a cadastral number.

116-135

Authors: Mykhaylo Malyovanyi

One of the main functions of the state is to carry out the social policy aimed at the provision of the conditions of human vital activity, implementation of intelligent and professional potential of people. In this case a well-developed system of social security is of paramount importance. To a great extent, financing of this system is performed at the expense of public funds. The article considers specific features of government financing of population social security in Ukraine over a period 2001–2019. Analytical data of budget monitoring of the Institute of Budgetary and Socio-Economic research, statistical digests of the Ministry of Finances of Ukraine and State Statistic Service of Ukraine, analytical notes of the Institute for Demography and Social Studies named after M. V. Ptukha of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine served as the source for the research. The study used general scientific and specific methods of cognition. The research presents the analysis of the main indexes characterizing the budget financing of population social protection in the context of the budgets of Ukraine. The dynamics of changes in the financing of social expenditures form the State Budget of Ukraine and their structure were examined. Specific features of financing the system of social protection of the population from local budgets were defined. The level of self-financing of social needs was evaluated. The main problems of the functioning of population social protection system were determined taking into account the fact those financial resources in the State and local budgets are limited. The author suggested the steps as to the improvement of state funding of social measures by the following ways: to improve inter-budgetary relations due to the increase of the authority of the local communities at the calculation of the need in financial resource for the social protection of the population; to enhance targeted social assistance and to improve its efficiency; to optimize the existing system of the social benefits and payments.

153-163

Authors: Olga Degtiareva

The article is dedicated to development of controlling concept that is often called also as «management control» in English speaking area. It focuses on current challenges that Ukrainian manufacturing enterprises face: needs of higher level of information and communication technologies inspired by transition to information society as well as needs of higher level of energy efficiency inspired by not perfect energy system. Energy controlling, as a new direction of the mentioned controlling concept, has to do with both of them. The proposed multilevel information system (MIS) is considered as a solution for informative support of energy efficient managerial decisions and as an important instrument of energy controlling. The methodology of its design covers cybernetic approach to segregation of information as far as approach of the T. Reichmann scientific school to pyramidal construction of controlling information system. The MIS collects, processes and stores information according to the places of origin of energy costs, time horizon of management decisions and purpose. The highlight of the MIS is the usage of energy KRIs – key performance indicators of the enterprise’s energy activities. They may differ from enterprise to enterprise as well as from time to time because they depend on the chosen energy strategy. Thus, there are important conclusions of the research: energy controlling increases the efficiency, e.g. energy efficiency, of the energy sector in manufacturing enterprise; information function of controlling requires a modern information system in context of current changes in business environment, a multilevel information system meets in the best way the informative trends in development of production relations; energy KRIs are specialty of the MIS, but as targets and evaluation indicators of a multilevel energy controlling information system. Further research should be conducted to enhance improve the above information system, namely: the development of KPI-models for different energy strategies of the enterprise.

178-189

Authors: Halyna Pudycheva

The essence of the energy system is defined in the article and its three levels are distinguished by territorial criteria: micro- (enterprise level), meso-(administrative-territorial formations) and macro level (energy system of the country). The author’s definition of the energy system is proposed, which, unlike the existing ones, is not limited only by the level of enterprises. The technological, territorial and economic unity of the objects of the energy systems is indicated. The purpose of article is to study the main business processes that occur in the energy sector. Based on this, a conclusion is drawn about the possibility of considering the energy economy as a logistics system. To achieve this goal, the following general scientific methods were used: systematization, generalization, abstraction, analogy, analysis and synthesis. A scheme of the main business processes in the energy sector is proposed, which covers five stages. A critical analysis of approaches to the definition of the concept of «logistics system», available in the domestic and foreign scientific literature, is conducted. Based on the analysis, it is substantiated that the logistics system can be considered as a relatively stable set of links in a certain business environment, which provides integrated flow management in order to implement the «logistics mix». The emphasis is made on the fact that the use of the logistic approach in the energy sector allows to present the business processes taking place in it as a stream model. The author distinguishes the flows of energy resources, which are inherently material flows, and energy flows, which are flows of services, in energy system. It is concluded that the consideration of the energy system as a logistics system allows confirming the formation of a new direction – energy logistics.