SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: SHOULDTHE NATIONS CARE ABOUT IT?

Abstract

In the article the global trends in the social responsibility on the national level were presented. The analysis of the global trends was made on the basis of comparing the national level of social responsibility and components of the economic freedom and social progress. It was detected, thatGDP per capita as basic indicator of economic wealth is strongly correlated to level of nation’s socialresponsibility. The influence of corruption on the social development was defined also. The basic direction for further development of the social responsibility in context of providing the sustainable development such as integrated matrixes of distribution of social responsibility were proposed.