CONTRADICTIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF REGIONS: DECENTRALIZATION AND PERIPHERYSATION

Abstract

This article presents some of internal contradictions in the social development of regions in Ukraine from the perspective of the centerperipheral approach. Such phenomenons as peripherization of regions as well as centralization of human resources are disclosed. These processes interfere with the decentralization in Ukraine. It is clarified that centeral regions exploit human resources of the periphery that creates additional risks of the regional development. The authors determine basic social mechanisms of regions peripherization. These include mainly the demographic degradation of the regions and migration to «the center». Iternal migration movement reveals itself in two main forms: the educational migration and the labor migration. The educational migration in Ukraine is conteined in two dimentions: qualitative and quantitative. As a result, «the center» concentrates the largest number of applicants also the most successful. It leads to the situation where unequal distribution of the intellectual potential creates additional risks. The maintenance and the reproduction of this situation is also supported by the system of the scholarships distribution in Ukrainian Institutions of Higher Education. Moreover, the tendency of the concentrating intellectual potential in favor for the center is define by the concept «centralization of the human resources». This process is influenced by the basic competitive position of the region and the level of integration in the socio- territorial system. According to the main results of the research, there were outlined the following vectors for scientific elaboration: fistly, designing the criteria to escribe regions to the zones of the semi-periphery and periphery; secondly, further in-depth studying of peripherization mechanisms to provide strategy to overcome internal contradiction in the socio-terretorical development; thirdly, gathering more foreign experience regarding to territorial development in context of similar conditions.