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The governments of all countries are pressing towards improving of the welfare of their citizens. The high level of welfare demonstrates the right direction and good ongoing socio-economic policy. For many decades, welfare has been evaluated mainly in terms of economic factors, with the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the main metric for gauging the quality of people’s lives. Researchers are seeking to assess more precisely the welfare of the population, avoiding usual economic indicators. The interest in alternat...

Security is one of the basic human needs. Without the formation of a secure social and economic system, a person cannot fully realize his need for security. We considered various definitions of security. Our objective was to examine a system of concepts that are close to the notion of security – danger, risk, threat, stability, vulnerability, reliability, harm, damage, loss, sustainable development. Firstly, the interaction of these concepts was presented graphically. Secondly, the authors have proposed a new conc...

The economic literature published the last five years includes many different versions explaining the occurrence, development and possible way out of the socio-economic crisis. We are in a situation where the old economic structure lags behind in its technological development and the existing inertia delays restructuring. In addition, there are new complex threats (for example, the sanctions). The behavior of socio-economic regional systems, that have their own methodological characteristics and, to some extent, a...