Social policy and human development in modern Russia

In recent years, the social policy of the state has been aimed at increasing the welfare of the country's population, social partnership of various professional, qualification and status groups of employees of enterprises and organizations in achieving the goals of production and economic activity, social protection of poorly provided groups of the population, including large families, children left without care parents and disabled people. To a lesser extent, social policy is associated with the development of human potential, which plays an ever-increasing role in the formation of qualitatively new social relations, the use of modern technologies and means of managing production and economic processes. The article focuses on the main features of the development of human potential, the definition of the criterion and indicators characterizing it in modern Russia.