Mechanism of social investments: regional aspect

The article describes the approaches to the essence of social investment. The main directions to stimulate economic and social development of the region are defined. Social investment allows to balance corporate and regional interests. The paper presents the relationship of social security, social investment and socio-economic development of the region. The author considers social investments as investments of various kinds of resources into the implementation of social programs in order to improve socio-economic development of society. Participants of social investment are the state, local authorities, businesses and various business entities, budgetary and extra-budgetary funds, public and charitable organizations, individuals, etc. The mechanism of social investment in the context of socio-economic development of the region is proposed. The mechanism of social investment is a complex of interrelated components that provide the intensification of investments of each of the subjects into social programs in order to achieve a higher level and effectiveness of their social and economic development...