AN ESTIMATION OF THE UKRAINE’S ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST POVERTY AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY

Author

, associate professor, Kharkiv, Pushinska, 77

In heading

Economic theory;

Signed print

28.10.2013

Issues number

2013 - № 4 (15)

Page

54-72

Type of articles

Scientific article

Code UDK

330.87:177.55 (477)

ISSN print

2218-8010

Abstract

The analysis of social inequality and poverty in Ukraine on the basis of the comprehensive using of the existing methodological approaches to their quantitative estimation is carried out in the work. The research of the country’s achievements in the struggle against poverty and social inequality for the period of 2000–2012’s is done. The signifi cant differences in the results of using of the different methods of poverty and social inequality studying are identifi ed, their main causes are explained. Social groups in the Ukrainian society, for whom the problems of poverty are particularly sharp are exposed. It is proved that signifi cant social inequality
and poverty of the population in Ukraine impede its further social and economic development.

Keywords

Social inequality, absolute and relative poverty, upper, middle and lower classes, the subsistence level, self-identifi cation, deprivation, indexes of poverty and social inequality, income and expenditures of households, wages.

Reviewer

External reviewer

Article in PDF

4 54-72

Bibliography

none

Code DOI

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07.10.2013