Strengthening the food security as a tool for the implementation of agricultural entities’ competitive development capacity in the system of Ukraine’s economic security

I. Radionova, Y. Malkovska,

The article is devoted to an important problem of public administration, namely: the justification of management decisions based on the assessment of the connection between indicators of national economic stability (security) and parameters of public governance. The study used information on the levels of Ukrainian economic security, provided by national state authorities, and data from international organizations that determine world indices (ratings) regarding the level of public administration in Ukraine. In particular, the study uses data from the Economic Freedom Index (EFI), Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), Global Competitiveness Index (GCI), Global innovation index (GII) and Fragile States Index (FSI). The authors provided the connection assessment between indicators of national economic stability (security) and parameters of public governance based on the two aspects: qualitative (or identification of parameters) and quantitative (or use of pairwise correlation matrices); and in terms of two paradigms, respectively, two theories of managing the national economy - the Government paradigm and the Governance paradigm. Referring to the content of the world indices (ratings) considered in this study, the authors make an assumption about the proximity of these indices (ratings) to the fundamental ideas of the two mentioned theories of managing the national economy and propose a ranking scheme. Based on the results of the qualitative connection assessment and pairwise correlation matrices, the authors made generalizations about possible directions for improving the public administration system in the area of economic stabilization (security). After the quantitative analysis, the authors chose only 4 parameters of public administration from three indices - GCI, GII, FSI, for further conclusions. The main focus of generalizations is on the need to change the concept of public administration, namely in terms of the government's attitude to the system of evaluating i indicators of national economic stability (security) and the priority of improving the national methodology for evaluating national economic stability (security).

Keywords: public governance of the economy, economic stability (security) of the national economy, economic imbalances, international indices (ratings) of the level of public management.