Liudmyla Cherenko

• National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

The article provides an overview of the challenges and specific features of the social support system’s functioning during a crisis period. The highlighted problems include the following: first, Ukraine’s state social obligations have traditionally exceeded the financial and economic capacity to fulfill them for decades; second, the outdated model...

Assessment of the first consequences of COVID-19 for the extent of inequality in Ukraine leads to contradictory conclusions. On the one hand, for the first two years since of the coronavirus crisis monetary inequality was decreasing; at the same time, the contribution to inequality from employment income increased, which indicated generally positiv...

The main problem of Ukrainian social support system for many years was insufficient targeting of social programs at the most vulnerable sections of the population. Significant impoverishment of the country’s population and expansion of the range of vulnerable contingents as a result of the war exacerbates the problem of allocating limited resources...

The monograph is devoted to the development of the model of living standards - from conceptual foundations, search for determinants and detection features of the formation of the living standards at different stages socio-economic development of Ukraine to be determined mechanisms of direct action through the system of social support and selection...

Ukrainian society has undergone various transformations over the past twenty years. Adverse economic conditions and ineffi cient income distribution policies deterred the for mation of a large middle-income group, which should become the basis of the middle class. Developed countries, which in the last century reached the peak growth of the number...