Today we can confidently conclude that, having entered the current crisis, the world will once again emerge from it in a completely different shape. The detailed characteristics of the new socio-economic reality are not obvious yet, one can foresee only its general contours. Undoubtedly, it makes sense to immediately start contemplating the future state of the social and economic environment to initiate without delay the policymaking process aimed at alleviating the most negative consequences of the crisis.