Trends of regional development management in Ukraine

The article reviews the current state of regional development management. The main trends of socio-economic development of regions in Ukraine are highlighted and analyzed. A general definition of regional development management as a system is proposed. The solution of these multi-component complex tasks causes a variety of scientific approaches to the management of regional development, a wide palette of practical measures of regional planning and management, as well as the widespread use in scientific research of similar terms: "regionalization", "social and economic development territories", "regional studies", "politics of regional development", etc. All these circumstances require a comprehensive theoretical study and coordination of both the conceptual apparatus and conceptual approaches to managing the regional development of the region. It is concluded that the management of regional development is usually understood as actions of the state, the purpose of which is to influence the socio-economic, political, and ecological development of individual territories. Accordingly, management of regional development is the purposeful influence of the state on the economic development of individual territories, in foreign literature it is defined as regional economic policy.