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The article considers and investigates certain aspects of the formation of productive, natural, human, financial, investment capital in the context of globalisation challenges. The positive features of the latest approaches to creating favourable conditions for rural development as a result of reforms and decentralisation processes are revealed. The issues of socio-economic, environmental, and innovative changes in rural areas that occur at the micro and macro levels have gained in-depth content. The key place is given to the role and functions of amalgamated territorial communities as carriers of progressive changes in rural areas. The world experience reveals the possibilities and examples of individual countries to improve rural development policy on the basis of sustainability.

The monograph is theoretical, applied and methodological in nature, logically structured by research topic. The materials of the monograph, presented by a team of domestic and foreign authors, may be useful for representatives of the authorities, AH members, entrepreneurs, scientists, teachers, postgraduate students and students whose activities are related to participation in the processes of local self-government reform and research on the presented topics. The publication was carried out within the framework of the project of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (Order No. 1296 of 31.10.2016) “Inclusive model of sustainable development of rural communities in the context of European integration perspective”.