Received 11.10.2019, Revised 06.01.2020, Accepted 02.02.2020
The article reveals the features of the new regional policy. The main directions of this policy are compared in Ukraine and in developed countries. The main directions of the new regional policy of the developed countries are analyzed (in terms of borrowing from foreign experience): enhancing the role of decentralization and regionalism; reducing inter-regional disparities; formation of a multicenter territorial structure; solving specific regional problems; ensuring the competitiveness of regions; ensuring endogenous, balanced and sustainable development of regions; ensuring sustainability in regional development. The importance of proper institutional support for Ukraine's new regional policy, based on the experience of developed countries, is emphasized
paradigm of regionalism (old, new); regional policy; new regional policy (Ukraine, developed countries); institutional support of new regional policy