ON THE QUESTION OF THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SOCIAL QUALITY POLICY IN POST-WAR UKRAINE

Abstract

The search for policy components and mechanisms for the post-war recovery and reconstruction of Ukraine's economy is relevant even when hostilities are still ongoing, because the world experience and the current conditions in the global economy point to the need for an early rethinking of the expected so-called "new normality". For Ukraine, the latter has both endogenous and exogenous dimensions and in the post-war period will be largely determined – as regards population’s life, the functioning of the state, the country's defense capabilities, and business activities – by the conditions of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU. On the way to full membership, it will consolidate society in the post-war period and will also play an organizing role in obtaining necessary financial resources. On these particular grounds, in view of Ukraine’s future membership in the EU as the basis of internal and external policy in the spheres of economy and social policy for tackling the issues of post-war recovery and economic development, the need for use in Ukraine of the content, substance, mechanisms and indicators of social quality, which has been forming on the European continent since the end of the 20th century, is substantiated. The proposed principles of social quality policy as a modern integral mechanism for ensuring social stability are the result of joint developments of the Institute for Economics and Forecasting of the NAS of Ukraine and the International Association on Social Quality, which have been carried out over the past five years in accordance with the agreement on creative cooperation.