Yuriy Petrushenko

Sumy State University | SSU · Department of International Economic Relations

Nowadays, one of the priorities of the human development strategy is to promote the sustainable development of local communities. Therefore, it is essential to identify additional factors contributing to it. In this study, we expand the scope of research on alternative mechanisms for ensuring the sustainable development of territorial communities....

Personnel development is becoming increasingly important as one of the areas of adult education in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 4 “Quality Education.” As with any economic process, staff training and development must be valued in terms of benefits and costs. This chapter hypothesizes the effectiveness of the contribution to education...

In the conditions of the war of russia against Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022, Ukrainian universities are playing roles that were not characteristic of them in peacetime. To the greatest extent, this concerns the university’s third mission, serving society and responding to its urgent needs. The purpose of this study is to identify and c...

The average agriculture output growth between 2011–2020, which stood at 3.5% against the backdrop of over 2.6% population growth rate, accounts for the present food insecurity, hunger, and malnutrition in Nigeria. The study aims to examine the impact of population growth on food security in Nigeria with data covering 1986–2020. The study employed t...

External public debt is not only a means of raising funds to finance public needs, but also an effective tool for stabilizing a country`s economic development, the assessment and analysis of which allows making effective management decisions at the state level and developing effective measures to improve the economic and debt situation. The paper a...

Modern Ukrainian universities are at the stage of integration changes caused by forming a single European educational space. The processes of society humanization, which are actively taking place in the modern world, require the creation of conditions to form a developed and educated society. These conditions are created in universities, which fulf...

The creation of a model of the formation and redistribution of competencies in the "education" - "labor market" system has become particularly relevant, since they are the main stage in the modern qualitative transformation of higher education both at the level of universities and the state as a whole. This approach is crucial for the development o...

The issues of recognizing the rights of the LGBTQ+ community around the world and developing appropriate anti-discrimination policies and laws are one of the main topics for discussion in the global agenda. This is due to the commitment of the world community to protect human rights and meet the needs of society. The paper aims to assess the relati...

Almost all human activity spheres, from the health care system to the education system, were unprepared for the pandemic. This, in turn, has slowed down the progress in achieving sustainable development goals. The Sustainable Development Goals 4 “Quality Education” and 8 “Decent Work and Economic Growth” were particularly vulnerable. In addition, t...

In the article, the authors analyze the scope of international tourism development factors based on factological and statistical grounds. It was proven in the article that on the macro-level tourist markets can be grouped into national and oversea ones. The classification of the national markets implies their division into highly-intensive markets...

In recent years there has been a sharp increase in the interest of humanity to environment preservation. It has become clear that the reckless use of nature will sooner or later lead to a catastrophe that will have not only environmental, but also economic and social consequences. The article provides a bibliographic analysis of scientific papers f...

The institution of home ownership provides for the functioning of affordable housing for low-income people and new groups in need of social protection, including the reintegration of migrants to new places of residence. The aim of the study is to substantiate the priorities of investments into affordable housing for internally displaced persons pro...

The world economy is in an unprecedented situation, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the health care crisis. It’s currently difficult to predict all the consequences, but there are undoubtful changes in migration flows, unemployment and poverty increase, and their impact on national economies and globally. The paper aimed at analyzing the cases...

Purpose. To create the concept of sustainable development of Ukraine in the context of global threats. Methodology. The research is based on the analysis of the components of integrated indicators and the formation of indicators based on them, which allow assessing the state of balance of socio-economic development of the national economy and deter...

In the context of globalization, all world economies unite, interact and develop in a single system of production. However, the world economy largely depends on the formation and development of the world labor market. Thus, migration is one of the main mechanisms and factors affecting individual countries and the world economy as a whole. With the...

The mobility of human resources, which arises under the influence of various reasons, is characteristic of any stage of human development, which in modern conditions under the influence of globalization acquires special proportions. Among the traditional reasons for such spatial movements is not only the search for better living conditions and earn...

The migration of highly skilled workers is becoming an increasingly important factor that is influencing the development of specific countries as well as different regions of the world. In fact, in the European Union, the tendency of low-skilled workers shortage is changing to the trend of promoting the highly skilled workers migration, which can c...

This article is devoted to the analysis of the main trends that cause disproportions in the labor market of Ukraine. To do this, the authors consider the conceptual and categorical tools of the field of labor market research based on existing researches his field. In particular, it was determined the essence of such concepts as employment, employed...

The article summarises the results of scientific analysis of the effectiveness of the system of horizontal financial equalisation as a tool for reducing inter-territorial economic and social disparities. The primary purpose of this study is to substantiate innovative approaches to improving the efficiency of the system of financial equalisation and...

Nowadays, the balanced development of any territorial unit should be based on the concept of sustainable development. As a result of its significant expansion, the goals of sustainable development began to be used at the level of strategic and operational documents, which in the context of decentralization is reflected at the level of individual te...

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development stipulates the need for economical use of natural resources and the introduction of green technologies to ensure the harmonious reconciliation of economic, social, and environmental development. However, the problems associated with the definition of the country’s sustainable development in conditions of...

This article analyzes the results of foreign and domestic scientists in the field of labor migration and the factors of this phenomenon. Based on previous researches, factors have been grouped into four main categories, which include all areas of life of existing and potential migrants, such as economic and political, social and climatic. Labor mig...

The article is devoted to the development and approbation of approaches to the assessment of demand for public goods. It presents the results of the assessment of demand for civic education as a public good of the nonmarket services sector. The assessment is based on the application of various research methods: desk research (analysis of publicatio...

The reform of decentralization and the formation of capable territorial communities is a priority of the Ukrainian Government. The reform aims at creating an effective system of local self-government to provide a high quality of life for people, improving the quality of municipal services and to ensure the sustainable development of regions. The re...

One of the main conditions for improving the overall competitiveness of the country is the formation of its sustainable logistic potential, since logistics is responsible for promoting the country’s products, both in the domestic and foreign markets. This is also characteristic for agricultural companies of the main countries of agricultural produc...

The development of entrepreneurial initiatives in the form of agro-cooperatives can be a perspective way for the community to develop through the formation of active civil awareness of the population, to create new jobs, to improve the local infrastructure and to find additional investments. The research aimed at examining structure and factors whi...

The concept of sustainable development has been considered as the main ideological paradigm of human existence. It is oriented not only on economic but also on social and environmental development. Its main ideas are grouped into Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which found their implementation at the national level of different countri...

The article analyzes the trends of the European Union's education policy in the field of intercultural dialogue and intercultural development. The chronology of the intercultural education, the transformation of the terms interculturalism is presented, the main legislative acts of the Council of Europe, European conventions, UNESCO documents are an...

Despite the increasing role of cross-border payments within the globalization processes and rapid growth of venture sector, an issue of its implementation remains to be a debatable point for many countries. The paper identifies disruptive challenges for financial institutions need to adapt. The research investigates the value and the investment flo...

Transformation of the mechanism of responsibility redistribution between central and sub-central government resulted in expansion of fiscal decentralization (FD) ideas. The concept of fiscal decentralization in general features was formed at the second half of XX century, however, key ideas appeared far more earlier. Nevertheless, many controversia...

The concept of learning cities and regions is recently becoming widespread both in the European and global theory of regional development acting as a tool for successful local socio-economic development management of a city and region, development of their human potential, the basis of the regional education policy of countries. Analysis of theoret...

It is proved that peculiarities of countries with the social-oriented economy are defined by either sufficient costs for the social sphere maintenance and development, or also by their essential influence on the citizens’ welfare, as evidenced by the human development index, which is calculated on the basis of the citizens’ material situation indic...

В даній статті відбувається аналіз наявних вітчизняних та зарубіжних праць науковців щодо існування різних форм зв’язку між фінансуванням системи освіти впродовж усього життя та індикаторами соціально-економічного розвитку. На основі цього висувається ряд гіпотез, які перевіряються за допомогою інструментів кореляційно-регресійного аналізу для Укра...

To date, the promotion of local development of the territorial communities by means of the financial policy tools is one of the priority directions of scientific research not only in Ukraine, but also throughout the world. The article presents the results of the study of the impact of the participatory financing (attraction of the financial resourc...

The paper substantiates the idea that it is impossible to achieve sustainability of agriculture in Ukraine without appropriate institutional changes in the economic culture of rural community members. Introducing the philosophy of sustainable development to the rural communities' everyday activities may be an impetus for such institutional changes....

The paper considers the concept of local development financing determined to institutional changes in territorial communities. Basic principles of local communities' participation in development processes are outlined in the paper. Approaches to local communities' development funding used in UNDP projects in Ukraine are analyzed.

The article justifies financial instability on the basis of econometric modeling of the Ukrainian local budgets incomes and expenses dynamics. In reality it leads to the loss of the economic efficiency in the operation of the local budgets. For example, other factors being equal, the correspondent authorities, which have the local budgets in their...

The article examines the impact of social capital characteristics of local communities on the effectiveness of the community-based approach to economic development. The conclusion that such social capital characteristics as (anti)paternalism, solidarity and cooperation have the greatest importance for the economic development is made based on the a...