Non-Profit Sector as a Subject of Social Services
Non-Profit Sector as a Subject of Social Services

Summary/Abstract: The article presents an analysis and assessment of the non-profit sector of Kazakhstan as a subject providing social services to households at the expense of public sector resources and on the terms of pricing in a free market. The non-profit sector of the economy, with its ability to meet the individual needs of the population at lower costs, has become in some countries the main entity providing state social services. Based on the indicators of the system of national accounts, the authors investigate the dynamics of expenditures of the non-profit sector in the structure of actual final consumption of households. The work reveals a high level of instability in indicators of gross value added and net profit for the period from 2009 to 2013 based on the scope of variation and the stability of these indicators for the period from 2014 to 2017. The authors give a description of the characteristics of different types of social services in the composition of the NPISHs sector on the basis of dynamics and structure indicators. The article presents a comparative analysis of the private and non-profit sector from the standpoint of the ratio of output, as well as the share of net profit and labor costs.

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