REGIONAL DISPROPORTIONS OF SMALL BUSINESS IN UKRAINE AND APPROACHES TO THEIR ELIMINATION
Urgency of the research. Study of regional disproportions of small business is up-to-date sector of research in the field of state support provision to entrepreneurship in Ukraine aimed at economy priming, enhancing the efficiency of regional and national economic development. Target setting. Small business may significantly contribute to the Ukraine’s GDP, solve employment issues, increase welfare and living standards of residents and sati-ate domestic market with competitive products. Thus, an important task for Ukraine, under the present economic conditions, is to provide proportional location and effective functioning of small business all over Ukraine, along with already formed disproportions eliminating. Actual scientific research and issues analysis. Considerable contribution to the development of theory, methodology and history of small business, its state regulation and disproportional regional development is made by the well-known scientists: V. Bazylevych, V. Bakumenko, Z. Varnaliy, P. Yeschenko, T. Klebanova, T. Ponomarenko, V. Savchuk, A. Chukhno and others. Uninvestigated parts of general matters defining. At the same time, the peculiarities of small business development and regional disproportions of its functioning are not thoroughly outlined in research literature. In the article, the authors present their results of these issues studies. The research objective. To study the condition of small business development in different regions of Ukraine, to find the approaches for the defined disproportions elimination in order to improve meso- and macroeconomic indices. The statement of basic materials. The article describes the role and place of small business in the state economic system; integral indices, which reflect level of development and efficiency of small business functioning in different regions of Ukraine depending on types of economic activity, are calculated using the methods offered by the authors. Conclusions. Disproportions of small businesses development in different regions of Ukraine are identified; the approaches to their elimination for considerable facilitating socioeconomic development of the country are offered.