Inter-municipal cooperation as a factor promoting the economic and social development

The article deals with the concept of “inter-municipal cooperation”, it substantiates the importance of inter-municipal cooperation for socio-economic development. The article describes the basic models of inter-municipal cooperation and highlights their essential characteristics. Besides, it reveals the main problems, impeding the wide-scale usage of this institution in practice and proposes a stepwise algorithm of formation and development of inter-municipal cooperation

Keywords

local self-government, development of municipalities, inter-municipal cooperation, establishment and development of inter-municipal cooperation