This article tests a hypothesis about the existence of a correlation between rates of economic growth and rates of public social spending in OECD countries and a range of transition economies. The paper argues that an economy does not necessarily react to fluctuations in business cycles with...

In the paper it is questioned whether effective state social policy provides happiness and social progress. For this purpose selected correlations between Human Development Index (HDI), share of public social expenditures in GDP, the Happy Planet Index (HPI), GDP per capita, and Government...

This paper provides two classifications of national state social policy models and projects and their positive analysis in terms of impact on the Russian economy and examines approaches for estimation of social process regulation for an adapted system of life quality indicators. Indicators are...