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Journal Regional Economy -- re2017.04.028

UDC [338.49:330.342.146]:316.422:332.1(477); JEL O15, R10
Butko, M. P., & Revko, A. M. (2017). Sotsial'na infrastruktura yak katalizator modernizatsiyi sotsiohumanitarnoho prostoru rehioniv Ukrayiny [Social infrastructure as a catalyst of modernization of Ukrainian regions’ social-humanitarian space]. Rehional'na ekonomika - Regional Economy, 86(4), 28-36. [in Ukrainian].
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Authors



Butko Mykola Petrovych

Doctor of Economics, Professor

Head of the Department of management and civil service of the Chernihiv National University of Technology

Contacts: -managment_stu@mail.ru, -butko.mykola@yandex.ru, butko.mykola@ukr.net

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Revko Alyona Mykolayivna

Ph.D. of Economics

Associate Professor of the Department of Social Work of the Institute of Law and Social Technologies of the Chernihiv National Technological University; Scholar of the L. Kirkland Program of the University of Economics in Poznan (Poland)

Contacts: alohaha19@gmail.com

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Resume

The conceptual contour of social infrastructure as a catalyst for the modernization of the socio-humanitarian space of Ukrainian regions has been explored. The own definition of the social infrastructure has been suggested. Approaches to classification of social infrastructure in regions of Ukraine have been substantiated. It was determined that education is the main element of the social infrastructure, which provides qualitative human development. It was established that the availability of education depends on the material base of educational institutions, the number of educational institutions, their equipment, the level of qualifications of staff, the possibility of using educational institutions and the quality of services they provide. The main barriers of equal access of the population of Ukrainian regions to education and the reasons of their occurrence have been considered. It was proved that the comprehensive human development through creating of a complex of vital goods necessary for expanded reproduction is the determinant of social infrastructure functioning.

Keywords:

social infrastructure, social policy, social and humanitarian space, education, access to education

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