Methodological Approaches to Assessing the Level of Economic Development of Ukraine’s Regions Bordering the EU

The aim of this article is to develop methodological approaches for assessing the level of economic development of Ukrainian regions bordering the EU. The necessity for developing methodological approaches to evaluate the level of economic development in Ukraine’s EU-bordering regions arises from the need for analytical research into their economic development during peacetime and wartime, in the context of establishing priorities and determining pathways for their infrastructural modernization in the post-wartime period. In order to formulate its own approaches to assessing the level of economic development in Ukraine’s EU-bordering regions, an analysis of existing methods for analytical research on the economic development of Ukraine’s regions has been carried out, which has allowed the identification of key economic indicators that form the basis of the analysis. The main objectives of assessing the level of economic development in Ukraine’s EU-bordering regions have been identified, underscoring the importance of applying an integrated approach to data aggregation and obtaining final results. The stages of conducting an integral assessment of the economic development level of Ukraine’s regions bordering the EU have been displayed and detailed. Directions for conducting the integral assessment of the economic development level of Ukraine’s regions bordering the EU have been identified, and within each of them, partial indicators have been presented, which collectively will provide the necessary information regarding the economic development level of a specific region. Mathematical tools for consolidating partial indicators within a specific direction into integral indicators have been defined and provided. The practical value of the methodological approaches to assessing the economic development level of Ukraine’s EU-bordering regions lies in considering a significant array of indicators, which will allow for comprehensive analytical research of the regions’ economies and reveal the peculiarities of their development, taking into account the scale of activity, foreign economic, investment, and financial dimensions.