The article substantiates approaches to improving state regulation of rural development by developing a set of regional policy instruments, as well as supporting the diversification of the rural economy and improving the activities of rural institutions, infrastructure facilities. The policy on the development of rural territories is proposed to be considered as a sphere of mutual responsibility of the state, rural territories, science, business and civil society. State regulation of rural social development does not matter in itself, but is reduced only to measures that mitigate the negative consequences of the formation of market relations. As a result, there is an urgent need for a systematic presentation of the substantive foundations of state regulation of rural social development, analysis of the consequences of its market transformation in the modern Kazakh economy and identification of areas for improvement [1]. The purpose of the article is to propose methodological approaches to assessing the effectiveness of state regulation of social development of rural areas based on the analysis of its content and features and to develop areas of improvement in modern Kazakhstan conditions. And also to consider the content of state regulation and features of social development of the village; to classify the means of implementing forms and methods of state regulation of social development of the village; generalization of the assessment methodology and development of criteria and indicators of the effectiveness of state regulation of social development of rural areas; determination of institutional and socio-economic consequences of market transformation of state regulation of social development of rural areas.

The article substantiates approaches to improving state regulation of rural development by developing a set of regional policy instruments, as well as supporting the diversification of the rural economy and improving the activities of rural institutions, infrastructure facilities. The policy on the development of rural territories is proposed to be considered as a sphere of mutual responsibility of the state, rural territories, science, business and civil society. State regulation of rural social development does not matter in itself, but is reduced only to measures that mitigate the negative consequences of the formation of market relations. As a result, there is an urgent need for a systematic presentation of the substantive foundations of state regulation of rural social development, analysis of the consequences of its market transformation in the modern Kazakh economy and identification of areas for improvement [1]. The purpose of the article is to propose methodological approaches to assessing the effectiveness of state regulation of social development of rural areas based on the analysis of its content and features and to develop areas of improvement in modern Kazakhstan conditions. And also to consider the content of state regulation and features of social development of the village; to classify the means of implementing forms and methods of state regulation of social development of the village; generalization of the assessment methodology and development of criteria and indicators of the effectiveness of state regulation of social development of rural areas; determination of institutional and socio-economic consequences of market transformation of state regulation of social development of rural areas.