Social Security In Developing Countries

Author : Ehtisham Ahmad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198860150
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Security in Developing Countries written by Ehtisham Ahmad and published by . This book was released on 2020-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term 'social security' has a very different meaning in underdeveloped countries and is best understood as poverty alleviation. This work seeks to define social security in its various forms and to examine what sort of programmes are most suitable for developing countries.

Author : Katja Bender
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136178503
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Protection in Developing Countries written by Katja Bender and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing universal access to social protection and health systems for all members of society, including the poor and vulnerable, is increasingly considered crucial to international development debates. This is the first book to explore from an interdisciplinary and global perspective the reforms of social protection systems introduced in recent years by many governments of low and middle-income countries. Although a growing body of literature has been concerned with the design and impact of social protection, less attention has been directed towards analyzing and explaining these reform processes themselves. Through case studies of African, Asian, and Latin American countries, this book examines the ‘global phenomenon’ of recent social protection reforms in low and middle-income areas, and how it differs across countries both in terms of scope and speed of institutional change. Exploring the major domestic and international factors affecting the political feasibility of social protection reform, the book outlines the successes and failures of recent reform initiatives. This invaluable book combines contributions from both academics and practitioner experts to give students, researchers and practitioners in the fields of social security, economics, law and political science an in-depth understanding of political reform processes in developing countries.

Author : Ehtisham Ahmad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Security in Developing Countries written by Ehtisham Ahmad and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term "social security" has a very different meaning in underdeveloped countries -- whose populations live in great insecurity -- and is best understood as poverty alleviation. This book attempts to define social security in the Third World and to examine what sort of programs are most suitable for developing countries. The authors review current literature on the subject. Some chapters explore broad themes, others contain case studies describing social security provisions in various regions of Asia, Latin America, and Southern Africa. This illuminating study will be of interst to development economists as well as those working in international organizations concerned with policy-making in the Third World and management of resources.

Author : Wouter van Ginneken
Publisher : International Labour Organization
ISBN 13 : 9789221108566
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Security for the Excluded Majority written by Wouter van Ginneken and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1999 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The large majority of workers in developing countries are excluded from social security protection. Social Security for the Excluded Majority examines this problem in Benin, China, El Salvador, India, and the United Republic of Tanzania. This book pleads for a participatory approach to the extension of social security and explores ways in which governments and organizations can come together to create practical, workable policies to bring social security protection to all.Through a series of detailed case studies compiled by an international array of policy experts, this book looks closely at the workings of self-financed schemes for informal workers that emerged in the 1990s, and highlights the schemes that have been most beneficial. It focuses on how NGOs, cooperatives, and other social organizations have been able to develop institutions and policies more in line with the requirements and contributory capacity of the informal sector.The authors evaluate various approaches to the extension of formal sector social insurance to informal sector workers, including the self-employed. In addition, they explore how social assistance programs, although often requiring sophisticated administration, can help ensure that benefits reach the population most in need, such as children, the disabled, and the elderly.

Author : Wouter van Ginneken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extending Social Security written by Wouter van Ginneken and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper reviews the main trends and policy issues with regard to the extension of social security in developing countries. It begins by defining the concept of social security, and it examines its linkages with the development process and its impact on poverty reduction. It then reviews the four main social security programmes, i.e. health insurance, pensions, unemployment protection and tax-based social benefits. It shows that in many middle-income countries, statutory social insurance can form the basis for the extension process. However, this is generally not so in the low-income countries, where only a small minority of the population is covered by social security. In particular for these countries, the paper pleads for experimentation with area-based schemes. It also recognizes the need for additional international financing of some basic social security schemes, if coverage is to be extended to everyone over the next 15 to 25 years. The paper also examines the gender dimension of the extension process. The paper concludes with outlining some key elements of national and international strategies. Social security should be recognized as a major instrument to deal with some of the negative social consequences of globalization. National policies should consist of improving and reforming statutory social insurance programmes, of promoting community- and area-based social insurance schemes, and of enhancing cost-effective tax-financed social benefits. At the international level, there is a need for a few simple indicators on social security coverage, for advocacy measures to get social security at the top of the development agenda, for experimentation with new mechanisms to reach workers in the informal economy, as well as for knowledge development and technical assistance. Many of these elements will be included in the "Global campaign on social security and coverage for all" that the ILO is to launch at the beginning of 2003.

Author : Robert Julius Myers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Role of Social Security in Developing Countries written by Robert Julius Myers and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Midgley
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 9780865692442
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Challenges to Social Security written by James Midgley and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social security systems throughout the world are faced with unprecedented challenges in response to growing criticisms about unacceptable expenditures for government programs and questions about the appropriate role of government in providing social protection through social insurance and social assistance programs. The challenges are also a result of dramatic demographic, social, and cultural changes around the world. A variety of radical and modest reform measures are currently being discussed which have the potential of significantly impacting the means of income and health care for the elderly, children, and families. This book examines these challenges from the perspective of local analysts in both industrial and economically developing nations. The purpose of the analysis is to promote a better understanding of the integral role that social security plays in the social and economic development of diverse societies. The chapters examine the wide range of challenges to social security in Britain, Egypt and Turkey, the Netherlands, Poland, the United States, Uruguay, and Zimbabwe. An overview of the most prevalent issues are discussed, including fiscal viability, economic development, equity, administration, public confidence, and the role of social security as the primary government instrument for social protection against the loss of income and health. Essential reading for students and researchers in social policy, gerontology, and comparative social welfare.

Author : Wouter van Ginneken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extending Social Security written by Wouter van Ginneken and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Douglas J. Puffert
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Security Finance in Developing Countries written by Douglas J. Puffert and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1988 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social security systems in developing countries can provide a pool of investment capital to spur economic growth. But many systems now showing surpluses may become insolvent because of poor management.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Social Protection Report 2017-19 written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: