The implementation of the state social policy in Ukraine and abroad: methodological approaches to assessment of Effectiveness

The analysis of the condition of financial support of the state social policy in the economically developed countries and in Ukraine was made. The idea about the influence of the GDP growth rates dynamics on the share of social expenditures of these states was expressed and verified. It was defined that a relatively stable and high level of government social expenditures (nearly 20 percent) is achieved after several medium-term economic cycles, after which the economic system adapts to market relations, and the stabilization of social expenditures occurs. It makes it possible to assert that there is a certain optimum of the level of social expenditures, and the state aims to maintain it after its achievement. This level of expenditures ensures the implementation of the main goals of the state social policy.