SOCIAL WELL-BEING IN KAZAKHSTAN: DEVELOPMENT AND IMPACT OF THE INSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM

The article is devoted to the development of the country's institutional system and its impact on the level of social well-being of Kazakhstani society. The purpose of the article is to define the institutional conditions for ensuring social well-being in Kazakhstan. The methods used were the analytical method, the statistical method, the functional and structural method of system analysis, the method of deduction, the method of synthesis and the method of comparison. Their application made it possible to consider the objects of research as a single system of entities with interrelations and mutual influence. The paper defines the structure and hierarchy of the institutional system aimed at the development of social well-being in the regions and in the country as a whole. Further, based on an institutional analysis of the content of regulatory legal documents, it was possible to assess their quality, logic and the strength of the links between them. In addition, this, in turn, made it possible to identify the shortcomings and problems of the current system. In the course of the study, it was possible to identify the main trends and shortcomings of regulatory legal acts regulating the processes and influencing the creation of conditions for the development of social well-being in the country. Guidelines for improving the institutional system have been identified.