CURRENT PRIORITIES OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: IMPACT OF GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND UKRAINE’S TASKS IN THE (POST)WAR PERIOD

Abstract

The peculiarities of state’s key social priorities formation amid a combination of multiple cascading economic and political crises are shown. The impact of global crisis factors on the prospects of national social development in the context of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 is revealed. Taking into account the experience of such global crises as the financial and economic crisis of 2008-2009, the COVID-19 pandemic-driven "coronacrisis", and the crisis associated with the Russia-Ukraine war, the key role of labor and employment sphere in post-crisis recovery is substantiated. On the example of Ukraine, the key social priorities in the situation of military shocks caused by the Russian Federation’s full-scale armed invasion are defined. It is shown that the formation of national social priorities and relevant directions of state policy for post-war Ukraine should be based on the following modern international approaches: 1) of the National Academy of Social Insurance (USA) – regarding the provision of social pillars of state's economic security and their financial stability; 2) of the European Union – regarding the implementation of the social quality policy and the actualization of welfare state model. Recommendations on the formation of the state policy of Ukraine in the (post)war period are developed and offered in order to provide the social pillars of economic security and ensure their financial stability in the following areas of state regulation: 1) labor and employment policy; 2) social payments, guarantees and benefits policy; 3) the policy of securing individual incomes; 4) social equality policy. For the conditions of the post-war recovery of Ukraine, it is proposed to expand the theoretical construction of social pillars with additional – demographic and labor – pillar of state's economic security.