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Social security: Indispensable solidarity

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  • Alain Euzéby

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Social security must be considered not as an economic burden, but as a collection of mechanisms for collective solidarity based on the principle of income redistribution. The economic and social transformations that the various regions of the world are going through, in particular the globalization of the economy, are making social security increasingly necessary. Instead of yielding to proposals for the privatization of schemes — a formula that is less efficient and more expensive — we should be protecting and improving social security; developing it in those countries where its position is still weak; and stressing that, while its objectives are humane and social, it brings economic benefits too.

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  • Alain Euzéby, 1997. "Social security: Indispensable solidarity," International Social Security Review, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 50(3), pages 3-15, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:intssr:v:50:y:1997:i:3:p:3-15
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-246X.1997.tb01073.x
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