Author(s): Natalia Kadol, Sergey Oganovich Kalendzhjan
In the modern world economy, the objective need for significant socio-economic transformations is acute. This is due to several reasons, among which it is worth noting the income stratification, economic crises, and political instability. One of the effective tools aimed at solving these problems is social entrepreneurship. Given that the topic of social entrepreneurship is understudied and needs further elaboration, the article discusses the development of social entrepreneurship in the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union. The analysis of the available data allowed stating that social entrepreneurship occupies a certain niche, and it is the subject of social services provision. Its sectoral distribution in the territory of the Eurasian Economic Union is concentrated in socially significant spheres. The target group of such organizations, as a rule, are a socially vulnerable category of citizens. In many ways, the problems that are inherent in the current state of social entrepreneurship in the Eurasian Economic Union countries are similar. This made it possible to identify a sufficient degree of unity of the functional-activity level of social entrepreneurship development in the territory of the Eurasian Economic Union, which is evidence of a certain integration potential presence in this area among the member countries of the Union.