As indirect methods of evaluating the effectiveness of cross-border cooperation system was used with four groups of indicators.

The first group of parameters that characterize the CBC carried Odessa area from adjacent regions of Romania and Moldova, a general statistical data that helps us understand how the overall degree of Euroregional cooperation in the region (see Table. 6).

The second group of indicators characterizing the socio-economic development of the Odessa region and its relationship with cross-border cooperation with neighboring countries in Odessa region.

Figure 3. Odessa Gross Regional Product

Figure 4. Odessa Region Foreign Trade

Figure 5. Foreign Investments into Odessa Region

As for performance, which directly characterize the CBC, you should conclude that a slight decline in economic cooperation with Romania in Odessa Oblast and the Republic of Moldova by reducing the volume of these investments and reduction of exports to these goods and services.

The third group of indicators is the data on implementation of joint projects within the Euroregion "Lower Danube" and involved for the funds of international organizations. In general, projects of international technical assistance Odessa region received 11 million euros.

The fourth group of indicators - is data about the development of border infrastructure within the Odessa region operates 57 check-points and 5 control points (of 62), but on the permanent basis built only 32 points bypass.

Table 7.

Traffic across the border of the Odessa region

That state of development of border infrastructure affects the development of cross-border cooperation in the region.

Summarizing the analysis of the effectiveness of cross-border cooperation with neighboring Odessa Oblast region of Moldova and Romania should be noted minor efficiency of such interaction caused by the fact that cross-border cooperation is carried out mainly in the cultural sphere and in environmental protection, a significant decline in border infrastructure and weak foreign trade communications links of other members of the Euroregion "Lower Danube".

Table 8.

The ways of organizational component of the CBC Odessa region improvement

The third chapter called "Perspectives of cross-border cooperation Odessa region" discusses the possibility of improvement of the organizational component of the CBC suggested possible ways to overcome the negative factors of cross-border cooperation and developed by successive steps to improve implementation of the CBC area.

Our reasoning for solving these problems include the following positions:

- requires gradual harmonization of Ukrainian legislation with EU law. This is consistent with the interests of Romania as an EU member, the Republic of Moldova, which historically has close ties with Romania, and Ukraine, which aspires to join the Community;

- necessary to establish close diplomatic dialogue between official Kyiv and Chisinau and Kyiv and Bucharest to resolve territorial disputes;

- Odessa authorities should facilitate investment from neighboring countries in the regional economy and promote the release of regional producers to the markets of Romania and Moldova. This direction of problem solving minor economic ties between the Odessa region and adjacent regions of neighboring countries is possible by creating areas of priority development and facilitating the creation of cross-border clusters will be discussed below.

Solving the problem of inertia of local government is a gradual administrative and legal reforms will be to transfer the required set of functions in the management of their own regional economy. It is also advisable to promote the national level institute CBC as a system that helped to create the right idea about this kind of activity - from the development of guidance for local authorities at the level of villages and district administrations and ending the development of a national concept of cross-border cooperation.

The need to increase the efficiency of cross-border cooperation in trade and finance charts showing trends lines GRP, exports of goods and services to neighboring countries, imports of goods and services, foreign trade with neighboring countries in the Odessa region and FDI from Romania and Moldova to the economy region.

Figure 7. The GRP trend line

Figure 8. The foreign investments trend line

Figure 9. The exports and imports trend lines

Figure 10. The foreign trade trend line

Table 9.

The perspectives of GRP and the key indicators of CBC of Odessa Region

These trends can emphasize the need to use these means to enhance cross-border cooperation:

a) promotion of foreign direct investment through joint events (fairs, conferences and investment forums) to inform the global business community about available in Euroregion "Lower Danube" investment projects;

b) promotion of export-oriented markets of neighboring countries, and import-production in the Odessa region by creating conditions for business development in the region through areas of priority development;

c) promote the establishment of stable trade relations between the Odesa region and the adjacent border regions of neighboring Romania and Moldova by creating cross-border clusters in priority sectors, which may be used only by the comprehensive cluster policy.

We propose to establish a joint Ukrainian-Romanian-Moldovan program funding projects that involve cross-border links between enterprises. This funding would represent an investment in the development of border infrastructure and facilitate the formation of international relations between residents of Romania, Ukraine and Moldova as a prerequisite for making cross-border clusters.

The process of using such programs as a tool of cross-border cluster policy reflected in Fig. 11.

The feasibility of creating cross-border clusters in leading industries of the Odessa region and allied border regions of Romania and the Republic of Moldova shows Table 10.

Table 10.

Perspectives for GRP Grouth

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As we see, to encourage cross-border clusters in the Odessa region promotes the growth of gross regional product of the region as a leading indicator of economic development of the region, as appropriate to assume that a consistent policy of promoting the formation of cross-border clusters will increase the effectiveness of CBC.

In the fourth section, "Overview of the Main Directorate of Foreign and European Integration of Odessa regional administration. Health and safety in emergency situations, "explores the fundamentals of the Main Directorate and its role in the CBC area, and studied the issue of labor in the region and legal regulation of life safety.

CONCLUSIONS

This master dissertation includes the theoretical foundations of cross-border cooperation, analysis of CBC of Odessa region and suggests possible ways to overcome the negative factors of cross-border cooperation and improve areas of CBC area. Among the results of research should identify the following:

1. Recommendations for finding new ways and reform of the old forms of cross-border cooperation in the reform of the organizational component of the CBC.

2. Developed solutions to specific problems of CBC.

3. Developed consistent plan for enhancing the effectiveness of CBC.

4. The calculated forecast data for the development of regional economy through the implementation of cross-border cooperation and information on the possible effect of the introduction of programs of formation of cross-border clusters.

ANNOTATION

The subject of research is the cross-border economic relations between the Odessa region and the adjacent border regions of Romania and Moldova.

The object of research is the Odessa region, which makes cross-border cooperation with neighboring border regions of neighboring countries.

The aim of the thesis is to enhance the efficiency of cross-border cooperation by overcoming the negative factors of development and seeking more effective forms and ways of its implementation.

The objectives are the analysis of cross-border co-operation of the Odessa region and economic indicators that characterize it, defining its role and impact on the economy of the region, identify the problems of such cooperation and developing recommendations for their solution, as well as possible directions for improving the efficiency of cross-border relations.

The results can be used to develop cross-border relations with neighboring Odessa region's border regions of Romania and Moldova.

Years of the thesis are 2011-2012.

Year of the finishing master’s thesis is 2012.

Key words: cross-border collaboration, Euroregion, external trade, export, import, border trade, foreign direct investment, cross-border cluster.

Thesis has 103 pages, 17 tables, 17 figures, bibliography of 53 titles, 7 applications for 14 pages.

Date: 2014-12-21; view: 1067