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Рисковите групи в процеса на преход към пазарна икономика
Socially Vulnerable Groups in the Period of Transition to a Market Economy

Author(s): Sasha Todorova, Valentina Zlatanova, Atanas Atanassov
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the matter of social risks in period of transition to a market economy from the point of view of expectations for the contraction or expansions for the contraction or expansion of socially vulnerable groups against the background of the demographic and social development in the next few years. The macroeconomic conditions for social tensions — curtailment of production and reduction of the gross national product, dismissing a vast number of people employed in the sphere of physical and non-physical production, decline in the population's real incomes and consumption etc. The accent of the study are: — social risks under the new social and political conditions; — current problems of the most vulnerable groups unemployed, poor, juveniles, elderly etc. — creation and reproduction of the socially vulnerable groups: development and prospects; — the trends towards marginalization of the socially deprived groups.

  • Issue Year: 27/1995
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 133-148
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Bulgarian