Methodology of Analysis of Social Competitiveness of a Country

The article considers methodology of analysis of social competitiveness of a country. It grounds actuality and essence of the notion of social competitiveness of a country. It characterises components of social competitiveness. It describes social criteria of underdeveloped and developed countries and shows that they have different criteria and priorities. It proves that the social component of competitiveness exists at macro-, meso- and micro-levels, and it has different qualitative and quantitative characteristics at each of them. It characterises factors of social competitiveness of economy at macro-, meso- and micro-levels. It draws relevant conclusions on specific features of the "social competitiveness of a country" category, which has a number of indicators based on functioning of formal and informal public institutions (maturity of public institutions, degree of development of human and social capital, degree of confidence, social responsibility of business, economic freedom, etc.). It proves that the object of social competitiveness of a country is a public social effect, which manifests itself as achievement of a high level of life and growth of well-being of the population.