Social problems of Ukraine: economic limitations of their solution
The introduction determined the relevance of the study, which does not raise objections from the point of development of modern society as a social state based on the combination of economic freedom of entrepreneurs and the ideals of the social state - social justice and security. At the same time, the economic opportunities of the state to solve social problems are very narrow now. And most of the society clearly articulated categorical assistance from the state, and the authorities dominate the concept of targeted social assistance. There is no consensus between the state and the population as to the obligations to solve social problems as a society as a whole. The main part outlines the most acute problems of Ukraine: the catastrophic gap in the current incomes and consumption of different strata of the population, encapsulated strata and the absence of upword mobility; de-industrialization of the country and the loss of human capital; unemployment as a symbiosis of deindustrialization and the structure of education; disappearance of the middle class; building a system of education that can not provide personnel shortage. Problems, which are not solved, are transformed into social threats: poverty, aggravation of demographic crisis, crisis of health care system and social protection, worsening of health condition of population, manifestation of moral and spiritual degradation, corruption as a systemic factor. In order to solve social problems at the level of modern standards, basic factors are absent in Ukraine. In the era of globalization and post-industrial transition, the national state has a very limited financial capacity to meet social challenges. The conclusion defines the basic principles that could unite a significant part of society. It is important to understand that the fragmented society does not meet the requirements of high-tech, intellectual and knowledge-intensive economy, abstracting from the reformist ideas of power.