Building social security
Subtitle: the challenge of privatization
By: Xenia Scheil-Adlung,  editor
Contributors: Scheil-Adlung, Xenia
Series: International social security series -- v. 6
Publisher: Transaction Publishers; Routledge
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Brunswick, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Social security -- Finance; Privatization; Individual retirement accounts; Social security -- Finance -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Privatization: visions, effects, and challenges. Social security privatization: different context, different discourse; title: Privatization: more individual choice in social protection; title: Africa: implications of privatization measures initiated by international financing organizations; title: Part 2. Privatization: an organizing principle for financing social security? The case for funded, individual accounts in pension reform; title: Individual accounts versus social insurance: a United States perspective; title: Strengthening public pensions with private investment- Canada's approach to privatization pressures; title: Part 3. Privatization: a tool for governance? Germany: efficiency and affordability in social security through partial privatization of provision for risks; title: Privatization: from panacea to poison pill- the Dutch paradigm; title: Healthy markets- sick patients? Effects of recent trends on the health care market; title: Social health insurance development in low-income developing countries: new roles for government and nonprofit health insurance organizations in Africa and Asia; title: Part 4. The empirical framework: national experiences of privatization in various branches of social security; title: The privatization of pensions in Latin America and its impacts on the insured, the economy, and old-age people; title: First experiences with the privatization of the Polish pension scheme: a status report; title: Austria's discussion on social security privatization: some notes focusing on old-age insurance; title: The evolution of public and private insurance in Sweden during the 1990s; title: Tunisian health insurance: towards complementarity of public and private sector; title: Impact of private sector involvement in health insurance in Uruguay: a status report; title: China: from public health insurance to a multi-tiered structure; title: Impacts of private sector involvement in health insurance in Indonesia; title: Trends in private sector involvement in the delivery of workforce development services in the United States; title: Changes in employment services through deregulation; title: The privatization of accident compensation in New Zealand; title: The advantages of statutory over private employment accident insurance: the example of Germany; title: The Danish experience with privatization: new ways of solving tasks