INTER-MUNICIPAL COLLABORATION AS A FACTOR OF STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT OF TERRITORIES
The article gives grounds to the understanding of inter-municipal collaboration as a factor of strategic development of municipal establishments. The importance of determining strategic aims and accepting strategic and program documents by municipal government is revealed. The list of strategic and program documents of municipal establishments of Pokhvistnevo sub region of Samara region is submitted. Their compliance to the strategy of social and economic development of Samara region until the year 2020 is analyzed. The author reveals that municipal government underestimates such strategic priority of "spatial development" and the function of local self-government as inter-municipal collaboration. The types of municipal relations are shown as well as their interrelation.
Marina P. Steshina, posttgraduate student of Samara State University of Economics