The Methodology of Research on the Unevenness in Development as a Factor of Ensuring the Economic Security of Regions of Ukraine

Abstract

The problem of unevenness in development of regions is considered, which leads to weakening of their economic protection against the external and internal risks. The mechanism for diagnostics and measurement of unevenness in the socio-economic development of regions of Ukraine is elaborated and its influence on the grade of economic security at the regional level is analyzed. The results of the work are the conducting a cluster analysis of regions; calculation of the integral index of the economic security level; construction of the spatial-dynamic model, as well as calculation of the coefficient of unevenness in development. Two groups of regions differing in terms of economic security are identified. In order to define the integral level of economic security, a taxonomic index has been calculated, confirming the constant imbalance of regions in terms of their development in the national economy and increasing the unevenness in development over the years. As significant factors of the classification are defined housing fund and income of the population.

Keywords

• socio-economic development
• unevenness in development of regions
• economic security of region
• cluster analysis
• Ward’s method
• k-means method
• taxonomic index
• spatial-dynamic model
• coefficient of unevenness