The role of cities of regional importance in attracting foreign direct investments: regional dimension
The article examines the role of cities of regional importance in the Western region of Ukraine in attracting foreign direct investment. The tendencies and contribution of cities to attracting foreign direct investment of their regions for the period 2012-2017 are analyzed. Reduced investment activity in most cities of regional importance and the unevenness of their contributions to attracting foreign direct investment in their regions with the allocation of undisputed leaders and outsiders. The cities that are the leaders of their regions by this indicator and are ahead of the global ones are identified. The increase of the part of foreign direct investment in most of the analyzed cities in the structure of their foreign economic activity is proved on the basis of the analysis of the share of foreign direct investment in the structure of foreign economic activity of cities of regional importance.