On the Issue of Forming a Methodical Approach to Assessing the Investment Attractiveness of Regions of Ukraine

• Main Author: Zabarna Eleonora M.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: PH "INZHEK" 2017-06-01
• Series: Problemi Ekonomiki
• Subjects: innovation and investment climate; factors; methodological approach; investment attractiveness of a region; investment region; investment passport
• Online Access: http://www.problecon.com/export_pdf/problems-of-economy-2017-2_0-pages-169_175.pdf

The aim of the article is to further develop the scientific principles of formation of methodological approaches to assessing the investment attractiveness of regions of Ukraine. The content of the economic category “innovation and investment climate” is investigated. There systematized factors of formation and evaluation of the innovation and investment climate, including economic, political, legal, scientific and technical, natural and social ones, which differ in the level of their mobility / inertia. It is shown that practically any legislative efforts of the government to create a favorable innovation and investment climate can be blocked by the authorities locally, while efforts to form an economic mechanism at this level can compensate certain shortcomings in the whole state economic regulation. The volume of direct foreign investments for the period starting from 2010 is analyzed. There proposed a methodological approach to assessing the investment attractiveness of regions of Ukraine with consideration for generalized indicators: level of general economic development; level of investment infrastructure development in the region; demographic characteristics of the region; level of criminogenic, environmental and other risks. Each synthesized indicator is determined by the aggregate of the analytical indicators included in their composition. The quantitative value of each synthesized indicator is obtained by summing the rank values (in the system of regions) that are part of the analytical indicators. An investment passport should provide investment support for regulating the development of a region. There proposed a scheme for formation of an investment passport taking into account the information data system.