... security in the developing world. The chapter also argues that to ensure the long-term development of social insurance it must be transparent, economically affordable, and politically acceptable. ageing population demography economy globalisation population ageing social insecurity social security...

... the author, with his life-long experience of international social security, advocates reinstating social insurance by reducing the volume of income redistribution, increasing the transparency of money flows, and improving citizen information....

..., but, in contrast with a graduate tax, stop once the borrower has repaid what he or she has borrowed, plus interest), and concludes that the general case that brings the two together is social insurance. The final section considers the unfinished agenda. education finance and funding Friedman Milton graduate...

...This chapter describes the risks that have traditionally been covered by contributory social insurance: unemployment and sickness and incapacity. Levels of unemployment and coverage by benefits are first discussed. Sickness Benefit appeared to have identical rates and the same dependent adult...

...This chapter investigates the risks that social insurance has mostly left out: disability, caring for disabled people and lone parenthood. Disability refers to an impairment that may or may not prevent a person from working. Four changes have occurred in social policy's response to disability since...

...Australia is implementing an ambitious new approach to individualised disability support based on a social insurance model. In a world first, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is funded through a levy on income and general taxation and gives Australians with disability an entitlement...

...This chapter describes ‘activation’ as it is applied to social assistance recipients in Denmark. It shows that compulsory activation, when applied to the vast majority of social assistance and social insurance recipients after a set period, is contextualised within the ‘Active Line’ of Denmark...

... a fixation on social insurance. The book adds to the debates about the need to ‘strengthen the social’ and to build a creative sense of moral agency in welfare systems....

... the political stories of the 1950s and 1960s that resulted in a social insurance and public pension system. It explains how Canada went from being a country that was mainly made up of small towns and rural communities, to a country that quickly became urban and suburban where today's newer cohorts of the older...

... T H Murray C New Right thinkers selectivism social insurance principle universalism Clasen J Clegg D contractualism rights and responsibilities reciprocal welfare contractualism ‘behavioural conditionality’ Curchin K entitlement to welfare Flint J Johnsen S Jones K McNeill J Pawson...

... purchasers unemployment pensions Council for Economic Planning and Development Taiwan pensioners benefit levels housing nursing homes Taiwan social insurance Confucian welfare states families familism familialism Blair Tony Siew Vincent C state Thatcher Margaret Chinese society Taiwan's...

... and compensated, and public provision of a minimum adequate income and universal basic social services will be accepted. The chapter concludes that consequential steps to strengthen social insurance and other forms of guaranteed rights to an adequate income, and to strengthen different forms of redistributive aid...

...The European welfare states have the most extensive systems of social protection in the world. In Europe, the social insurance schemes provide protection against unemployment, sickness, invalidity, and old age. Despite the protection provided by social schemes, poverty has never disappeared...

...This chapter takes a look at a brief history of social security. It begins with a discussion of the predecessors of social insurance, including social assistance and the maxim of charity. It then examines the coming of social insurance and the origins of social security. The final section...

... ‘informal’ care: the Dutch system which is organised by the Social Insurance Bank and framed by welfare state legislation, and an arrangement organised by a major Catholic charity, Caritas, in Austria, which pays informal carers to care. The different funding regimes for ‘routed wages’ show...

.... This chapter examines the case of Tanzania by exploring the policy developments that have sought to facilitate access to social protection within the informal economy over the past 10–15 years, notably through the expansion of social insurance provision. The chapter highlights the pioneering legislative...

... in entrepreneurial structures and technological development. This chapter aims to examine the characteristics of freelance work, the insecurity experienced by freelancers, and their experience with the social security system in South Korea, particularly focusing on the four major social insurances. This analysis...

... enterprises. There is increasing reliance on state-led private charities and philanthropy, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and self-help initiatives; in short, a more mixed or pluralistic system. In social insurance, the discussion highlights the reforms of the pension, unemployment and health care...

...This chapter examines the history of social policy making, focusing on the development of the social insurance schemes. The analysis focuses on four rough chronological periods: the pre-war period; the 1940s to 1950s; the 1960s to the 1980s; and the 1990s to the present. The family and companies...

...This chapter examines how the human development approach and the capability approach can be used to inform policy formulation by considering the case of social insurance for informal workers in South Africa. It begins with a discussion of the nature of the human development approach...