LIFE COST: CONTENTS AND STRUCTURE
The author of the article proves that in order to conceive the phenomenon of human potential at the contemporary stage of researches one should attach great importance to the assessment of the quality of socio-economic life, the economic state of the present reality, as only the former creates conditions for a formation and realization of human potential in all sorts activities of man, recognized by socium. An emphasis is once again laid upon the fact that the country's wealth of nowadays is determined, first and foremost, not by natural resources but by people representing the nation. Thereby, people should be looked upon as not a medium, but as a final aim of progress achievement in social-economic development of the country. Being designed on this premise the structures and factors of the formation concerned with life cost in the Republic of Tajikistan are analyzed. The elaborated methodology of determination in reference to assessment of life cost is necessary for planning the programme of social state policy, it may be also applied in different areas of the country, at separately taken enterprises, in the realm of social insurance and in every day life of citizens as well.