RESILIENCE OF THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEM: STRATEGY AND TACTICS FOR MINIMIZING INEQUALITIES IN UKRAINIAN SOCIETY
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.35774/jee2024.04.560Keywords:
adaptability, flexibility, inequality, policy of social quality, social resilience, societal resilience, social sustainability, stress resistance.Abstract
The article is devoted to identifying the directions of state policy aimed at ensuring social sustainability and the challenges associated with the growing processes of inequality in the context of war. The authors revealed the substantive components of the concept of social sustainability, which is a systemic synergistic characteristic of adaptability, stress resistance, and flexibility of the social and labor sphere. The comparative analysis allowed to confirm the deepening of inequality processes in Ukrainian society in the context of a prolonged war and to prove that the solution to the problem of inequality lies in ensuring the social stability of the labor market, eliminating discrimination, and preventing exclusion from the labor market. The generalized threats to social sustainability allowed the authors to substantiate the institutional direction of ensuring the social sustainability of Ukrainian society, which includes the post-war renewal of the social contract based on the basic principles of social justice, cohesion, complementarity, social quality and inclusiveness.
JEL: J18, D63, D69, I30.
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