Content
July 2005, Volume 58, Issue 2‐3
- 133-161 A New Approach to Social Assistance: Latin America's Experience with Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes
by Laura B. Rawlings - 163-183 Income Protection Through Direct Employment Programmes: Recent Concepts and Examples from Latin America
by Gerhard Reinecke
January 2005, Volume 58, Issue 1
- 3-22 The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS): What's in it for Social Security?
by Nicola Yeates - 23-44 Employee Benefit Plans in Europe: A Fragment or a Vehicle of Social Protection?
by Philippe Martin - 45-64 Social Health Insurance: Key Factors Affecting the Transition Towards Universal Coverage
by Guy Carrin & Chris James - 65-84 Growing Disability Rates — the Gender Issue: The Dutch Case in an International Perspective
by Marcel Einerhand & Henk van der Stelt - 85-97 Occupational Accident Insurance Reform and Legislation in China
by Yanyuan Cheng & Barbara Darimont - 99-120 Reality and Challenges of Pension Schemes in Tunisia
by Chourouk Houssi
September 2004, Volume 57, Issue 4
- 3-18 The impact of tax‐financed pensions on poverty reduction in Latin America: Evidence from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica and Uruguay
by Fabio M. Bertranou & Wouter Van Ginneken & Carmen Solorio - 19-49 Rural population and social security in Brazil: An analysis with emphasis on constitutional changes
by Kaizô Iwakami Beltrão & Sonoe Sugahara Pinheiro & Francisco Eduardo Barreto De Oliveira - 51-65 Contribution compliance in central and eastern European countries: Some relevant issues
by Tine Stanovnik - 67-89 A stronger role for the private sector in France's health insurance?
by Pascale Turquet - 91-110 Healthcare funding problems in Algeria
by Nouara Kaïd Tlilane
July 2004, Volume 57, Issue 3
- 3-23 Promoting social security worldwide: The role of the ISSA
by Roddy McKinnon - 25-43 Modernizing social security: Changing responsibilities and individual choice
by Marcel Einerhand & Geralt Nekkers - 45-64 New social risks in postindustrial society: Some evidence on responses to active labour market policies from Eurobarometer
by Peter Taylor‐Gooby - 65-90 China's health insurance system in transformation: Preliminary assessment, and policy suggestions
by Hans Jürgen Rösner - 91-109 Projected spending on pensions in Spain: A viability analysis
by Juan F. Del Brío Carretero & Ma De La Concepción González Rabanal - 111-132 Tort claims for road accident compensation and social security in South Africa
by Kathleen Satchwell - 133-134 Review
by Théopiste Butare
April 2004, Volume 57, Issue 2
- 3-24 Pension Reform in the EU Accession Countries: Challenges, Achievements and Pitfalls
by Elaine Fultz - 25-46 Assessing Pension System Reforms in Latin America
by Carlos Ochando Claramunt - 47-62 Long‐Term Care Policy for Functionally Dependent Older People in the Republic of Korea
by Duk SunWoo - 63-86 Social Protection in Turkey: Fragmented — and Disconnected from the Supply of Hospital Care
by Robert Holcman - 87-106 Combining Welfare‐to‐Work Measures with Tax credits: A New Hybrid Approach to Social Security in the United Kingdom
by Michael Adler - 107-117 Social Protection: Values to be Defended!
by Alain Euzéby
January 2004, Volume 57, Issue 1
- 3-18 Social protection in the Republic of Korea: Social insurance and moral hazard
by Eric Bidet - 19-45 Pension reform in the Baltic States: Convergence with “Europe” or with “the world”?
by Bernard H. Casey - 47-64 Assessing the pension reform potential of a notional defined contribution pillar
by John B. Williamson - 65-84 Individual accounts: Lessons from Sweden
by John Turner - 85-103 Rethinking social security in the European Union: Extending fundamental universal rights
by Chantal EuzéAby - 105-117 Trends in the development of a European social union
by Franz Terwey
November 2003, Volume 56, Issue 3‐4
- 11-16 Social Security in Rwanda: Overcoming Indifference
by François‐Xavier Ngarambe - 17-23 Governance of social security regimes: Trends in Senegal
by Ahmadou Yéri Diop - 25-37 Trends in Social Security in East Africa: Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda
by Ramadhani K. Dau - 39-58 Informal Economic and Social Security in Sub‐Saharan Africa
by An Maes - 59-71 Linking Community Initiatives to National Institutions: Ghana
by Michael Cichon & David Tumwesigye & Karuna Pal & Florian Léger & Diane Vergnaud - 73-85 Healthcare Financing in the African Countries of the Eastern Mediterranean
by Belgacem Sabri - 87-100 Work Accident Insurance and Prevention in Southern Africa: The Case of Zimbabwe
by Edwin Kaseke & Matthew Ncube - 101-120 Old Age Pensions in South Africa
by Elize Van Zyl - 121-138 Social Security Pensions in the Maghreb: A Study of Morocco and Tunisia
by Abdellah Boudahrain - 139-155 Encouraging School Attendance in Mozambique by Granting a Minimum Income to Parents
by Lena Lavinas - 157-175 Unemployment Insurance in Algeria: Help or Hindrance?
by Ali Boussaidi
April 2003, Volume 56, Issue 2
- 3-29 The European Court of Justice and the free movement of patients in the European Union
by Elias Mossialos & Willy Palm - 31-43 Distinguishing disability and incapacity
by Paul Spicker - 45-64 Social governance: Corporate governance in institutions of social security, welfare and healthcare
by Vanessa Verdeyen & Bea Van Buggenhout - 65-80 The recalibration of the Danish old‐age pension system
by Niels Ploug - 81-101 The importance of housing costs in cross‐national comparisons of welfare (state) outcomes
by Veli‐Matti Ritakallio - 103-114 From reform to crisis: Argentina's pension system
by Fabio M. Bertranou & Rafael Rofman & Carlos O. Grushka
January 2003, Volume 56, Issue 1
- 3-29 Making welfare work: UK activation policies under New Labour
by Robert Walker & Michael Wiseman - 31-52 The Colombian pension system after the reform of 1994: An evaluation
by Kristin J. Kleinjans - 53-74 Social protection in Europe: A European trade union perspective
by Martin Hutsebaut - 75-94 Healthcare financing reform and the new single payer system in the Republic of Korea: Social solidarity or efficiency?
by Soonman Kwon - 95-114 Managed care and traditional insurance: Comparing quality of care
by Daniel Simonet
2002, Volume 55, Issue 4
- 11-22 Japan’s never–ending social security reforms
by Noriyuki Takayama - 23-38 Welfare reform and future challenges in the Republic of Korea: Beyond the developmental welfare state?
by Huck–ju Kwon - 39-54 Recent developments in China’s social security reforms
by Yukun Zhu - 55-70 Provident funds in Asia: Some lessons for pension reformers
by David C. Lindeman - 71-88 Southeast Asia’s social security systems: Need for a system–wide perspective and professionalism
by Mukul G. Asher - 89-106 Reforming formal social security systems in India and Sri Lanka
by Wasana Karunarathne & Ranadev Goswami - 107-126 Old–age security in Bhutan: From lump–sum payments towards a pension scheme
by Winfried Schmähl - 127-141 Participation and opportunity: Redefining social security in Australia and New Zealand
by Deborah Mitchell - 143-156 Social security for the unorganized sector in South Asia
by S. Irudaya Rajan - 157-169 Social insurance schemes in the Gulf countries
by Zakariya Sultan Mohammed
2002, Volume 55, Issue 3
- 3-17 On the convergence of social protection systems in the European Union
by Peter A. Cornelisse & Kees P. Goudswaard - 19-38 Labour shortages and employability: A European and international approach
by Patrick Bollérot - 39-55 Cooperation between social security and employment services: Evaluation of a reform strategy in the Netherlands
by Jan Terpstra - 57-72 The Spanish public retirement pensions system: Principal challenges and recent developments
by Francisco Blanco Angel
2002, Volume 55, Issue 2
- 3-36 Reforming pensions: Myths, truths, and policy choices
by Nicholas Barr - 37-56 Towards a convergence of European social models?
by Séverine Chapon & Chantal Euzéby - 57-69 Social health insurance in developing countries: A continuing challenge
by Guy Carrin - 71-93 Formal pooling of health risks in sub‐Saharan Africa: Reflections on the obstacles encountered
by Bruno Meessen & Bart Criel & Guy Kegels - 95-121 Old age protection in India: Problems and prognosis
by Ranadev Goswami
2002, Volume 55, Issue 1
- 13-20 Thinking about ageing issues
by Dalmer D. Hoskins - 21-35 Issues in pension system design
by Maria Augusztinovics - 39-47 Ageing and the changing role of the family and the community: An African perspective
by Nana Araba Apt - 49-65 Income security for older people: An Asian perspective
by R. K. A. Subrahmanya - 67-82 Providing social security in a context of change: Experience and challenges in Latin America
by Fabio M. Bertranou & Rafael Rofman - 85-105 The evolving concept of “retirement”: Looking forward to the year 2050
by James H. Schulz - 107-120 Older people, work and equal opportunity
by Ali Taqi - 121-139 A strategy for active ageing
by Alan Walker
2001, Volume 54, Issue 4
- 3-22 Contribution evasion: Implications for social security pension schemes
by Warren McGillivray - 23-47 Information technology and transformations in social security policy and administration: A review
by Paul Henman & Michael Adler - 49-66 Rate of return guarantees for mandatory defined contribution plans
by John A. Turner & David M. Rajnes - 67-92 Structural reform of social security pensions in Latin America: Models, characteristics, results and conclusions
by Carmelo Mesa‐Lago - 93-110 Gender issues in social security policy of developing countries: Lessons from the Kerala experience
by Shoba Arun & T.G. Arun - 111-117 Current developments in German old‐age provision: Reconciling continuity and change
by Anne Meurer
2001, Volume 54, Issue 2‐3
- 7-56 Reforms And Performance of the Medical Systems in the Transition States of the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
by Christopher Davis - 57-79 The Political Economy of Pension Reform in Eastern Europe
by Katharina Müller - 81-105 Czech Social Reform after 1989: Concepts and Reality
by Martin Pot˚uček - 107-126 Disquieting Quiet in Hungarian Social Policy
by Zsuzsa Ferge - 127-137 Changing the Financing of the Lithuanian Pensions System
by Teodoras Medaiskis - 139-149 Trends in Pension Reform in the Russian Federation: A Bbrief Overview
by Dmitri Karasyov & Yuri Lublin - 151-175 The Pension Scheme in Belarus: Situation Analysis and Perspectives
by Natalia Murashkevich - 177-189 Transition Countries of Central Europe Entering the European Union: Some Social Protection Issues
by Vladimir Rys - 191-215 Social Budgeting in Transition Economies
by Michael Cichon & Krzysztof Hagemejer & Wolfgang Scholz
2001, Volume 54, Issue 1
- 3-17 Benefit Dependency and the Dynamics of the Welfare State: Comparing Sweden and the Netherlands
by Marcel Einerhand & Ingemar Eriksson & Michiel Van Leuvensteijn - 19-39 High Employment and Social Security: Vision or Illusion in a Globalized World?
by Ulrich Walwei - 41-57 Organizational Alternatives for Companies' Management of Occupational Risks: The Examples of Spain and Argentina
by Eugenia Suárez Serrano & Enrique Loredo Fernández - 59-83 Portability of Supplementary Pension Rights in the European Union
by Vincenzo Andrietti - 85-100 Germany: Social Policy Reforms for German Agriculture: Challenges and Recommendations
by Konrad Hagedorn & Peter Mehl - 101-112 Brazil:The Brazilian Social Security System
by Francisco Eduardo Barreto De Oliveira & Kaizô Iwakami Beltrão
November 2000, Volume 53, Issue 4
- 3-24 Social Security Systems in Low‐Income Countries: Concepts, Constraints and the Need for Cooperation
by Johannes Jütting - 25-36 Mandatory Defined‐Contribution Pension Systems: Progress — or Regression?
by John A. Turner - 37-48 Current and Future Problems of Capital Accumulation in the Chinese Pension System
by Zhang Jinchang & Chen Jiagui & Hans Jürgen Rösner - 49-78 Has the Portuguese NHS Achieved its Objectives of Equity and Efficiency?
by Anna Dixon & Elias Mossialos - 79-103 Curing The Dutch Disease? Sickness Absence and Work Disability in The Netherlands
by Sabine Geurts & Michiel Kompier & Robert Gründemann - 105-129 Anti‐Poverty Effectiveness of Taxes and Income Transfers in Welfare States
by Hwanjoon Kim - 131-134 “An Ambitious Venture”: Commentary on “A Global Ranking of National Social Security Systems”
by Michel Voirin
2000, Volume 53, Issue 3
- 3-26 Private Pensions — a Viable Alternative? Their Distributive Effects in a Comparative Perspective
by Christina Behrendt - 27-41 Gender and Social Security Reform in Africa
by Deborah Kasente - 43-57 The Role and Design of Income‐Related Housing Allowances
by Peter A. Kemp - 59-83 Protecting the Old in a Young Economy: Old Age Insurance in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
by Markus Loewe - 83-107 Financial Crisis and Social Security: The Paradox of the Republic of Korea
by Dong‐Myeon Shin
April 2000, Volume 53, Issue 2
- 3-29 Doctrine and Practice in Social Security Pension Reforms
by Stanford G. Ross - 31-45 Pension Reform and International Organizations: From Conflict to Convergence
by Monika Queisser - 47-73 The Insecure Social Protection of Migrant Workers From the Maghreb
by Abdellah Boudahrain - 75-99 Reforming health insurance: A question of principles?
by David M. Dror
January 2000, Volume 53, Issue 1
- 11-34 The World Bank Approach to Pension Reform
by Robert Holzmann - 35-63 The development and Reform of Social Security Pensions:The Approach of the International Labour Office
by Colin Gillion - 65-82 A New Social Security Reform Consensus? The ISSA’s Stockholm Initiative
by K. G. Scherman - 83-107 Rehabilitation Initiatives by Disability Self‐help Groups: A Comparative Study
by Bernd Steinke - 109-122 A Global Ranking of National Social Security Systems
by John Dixon
October 1999, Volume 52, Issue 4
- 3-24 Structural pressures, social policy and poverty
by Tiina Mäkinen - 25-45 The development of some characteristics for equitable national retirement income systems
by David Knox & Roslyn Cornish - 47-67 Squaring the welfare circle and government ideology: Greece and Spain in the 1990s
by Vic George & Peter Stathopoulos & Jorge Garcés - 69-86 “Work for those that can, security for those that cannot”:The United Kingdom’s new social security reform agenda
by Mark Hyde & John Dixon & Melanie Joyner - 87-105 Notional defined‐contribution schemes: Old wine in new bottles?
by Michael Cichon
July 1999, Volume 52, Issue 3
- 15-30 Motivation, Purpose and Processes in Pension Reform
by Giovanni Tamburi - 45-55 Fundamental Decisions for the Reform of Pension Systems
by Winfried Schmähl - 57-67 Pension Provision for Specific Risk Groups: The Japanese Case
by Noriyuki Takayama - 69-92 Equity and Redistribution Between Generations: A Challenge for the Future of Pensions and all Social Protection Schemes
by Anne‐Marie Guillemard - 93-106 Work, Family, State and Market: Income Packaging for Older Households
by Martin Rein & John Turner - 107-124 Adequacy and Poverty Among Retired People
by Richard Hauser
1999, Volume 52, Issue 2
- 3-29 Should Public Pensions be Funded?
by Richard Hemming - 31-74 Germany’s Social Long‐term Care Insurance: Design, Implementation and Evaluation
by Ulrike Schneider - 75-90 The Impact of European Law on the Development of Social Security Policies in the United Kingdom
by John Ditch & Paul Spicker - 91-98 Has Social Security Become Irrelevant?
by James Midgley - 101-108 Japan: Reform of the Japanese Health Insurance System
by Arahira Shoji & Onishi Hironari
1999, Volume 52, Issue 1
- 7-30 The Self‐Employed: Providing for the Self‐Providers
by David Williams - 31-47 Self‐Employed People in the United Kingdom: Included or Excluded?
by Anne Corden - 49-69 Social Security for the Informal Sector: A New Challenge for the Developing Countries
by Wouter Van Ginneken - 71-97 Micro‐insurance: Extending Health Insurance to the Excluded
by David M. Dror & Christian Jacquier - 98-110 Self‐Employment and Social Security: A Literature Survey
by Andy Jesse
October 1998, Volume 51, Issue 4
- 3-31 Does the Privatization of Social security Make Sense for Developing Nations?
by John B. Williamson & Fred C. Pampel - 33-55 Complexities in Assessing Unemployment Benefits and Policies
by Jon Kvist - 57-70 The Public Finance Implications of Private Pensions: An Analysis with Special Reference to the United Kingdom
by Bernard H. Casey - 71-89 Issues in Complementary Health Insurance in Belgium
by Y. Stevens & L. Van Rompaey & V. Huber & B. Van Buggenhout - 93-103 Netherlands: The context of change: Social Security Reform in the Netherlands
by Renée Van Wirdum
1998, Volume 51, Issue 3
- 3-36 The future of the Welfare State
by Harvey Lazar & Peter Stoyko - 37-62 Social needs and the roles of governments and markets: The case of retirement pensions
by Théopiste Butare - 63-87 Pension systems and prospects in Asia and the Pacific
by Roger Beattie - 89-103 Viet Nam: The development of national health insurance
by Aviva Ron & Guy Carrin & Tran Van Tien
1998, Volume 51, Issue 2
- 3-16 Social security for the twenty‐first century
by Chantal Euzéby - 17-37 Health Care in Asia and the Pacific: Increasing the focus on social health insurance
by Aviva Ron - 39-55 Regulation and supervision of pension funds: Principles and practices
by Monika Queisser
January 1998, Volume 51, Issue 1
- 3-30 The Future of Retirement Protection in Southeast Asia
by Mukul G. Asher - 31-46 Pensions in the European Union: Adapting to Economic and Social Changes
by Emmanuel Reynaud - 47-71 Regular Adjustment of Financial Parameters of Social Protection Systems in Volatile Inflationary Environments
by Wolfgang Scholz & Anne Drouin - 73-101 Categorical Benefits in Welfare States: Findings from Great Britain and Israel
by John Gal - 103-136 Steering the Healthcare Ship: Effects of Market Incentives to Control Costs in Selected OECD Countries
by Xenia Scheil‐Adlung - 137-152 Private Health Insurance in Chile: Basic or Complementary Insurance for Outpatient Services?
by Mathias Kifmann
October 1997, Volume 50, Issue 4
- 7-26 Social protection: An obstacle to employment?
by Ulrich Walwei & Gerd Zika - 29-41 The social protection of the unemployed
by Jef Van Langendonck - 43-61 Gender inequalities in European unemployment benefit systems
by Maria Jepsen & Danièle Meulders - 63-93 The challenge of youth unemployment
by Niall O'Higgins - 95-112 Early reemployment for dislocated workers in the United States
by Stephen A. Wandner
July 1997, Volume 50, Issue 3
- 3-15 Social security: Indispensable solidarity
by Alain Euzéby - 17-30 Structure and legitimation of statutory accident insurance: A comparative legal view
by Maximilian Fuchs - 31-44 Indexation of public pension benefits on a legal basis: Some experiences in European countries
by Henk Vording & Kees Goudswaard - 45-65 Reforming China's social security system: Facts and perspectives
by Aidi Hu
April 1997, Volume 50, Issue 2
- 3-23 Work incapacity and reintegration: Theory and design of a cross‐national study
by Frank S. Bloch & Rienk Prins - 25-34 The institutional design of the Australian Welfare State
by Francis G. Castles - 43-57 The national provident fund model: An analytical and evaluative reassessment
by Roddy McKinnon & Roger Charlton & Harry T. Munro - 63-71 Ghana
by Henry Di - 72-79 Finland
by Bo Lundqvist - 80-84 Italy
by Fabio Trizzino
January 1997, Volume 50, Issue 1
- 3-21 The resurgence of poverty and the struggle against exclusion: A new challenge for social security in Europe?
by Jos Berghman - 23-39 The growing risk of dependency in old age: What role for families and for social security?
by Patrick Hennessy - 41-55 Social security and dependence
by David Piachaud - 57-74 Reforming social security in economies in transition: Problems and policies in the former Soviet Republic of Moldova
by Deborah Mabbett - 75-86 Sweden
by Hans Svensson & Jan‐Åke Brorsson
October 1996, Volume 49, Issue 4
- 5-24 Restructuring Australian retirement incomes: Implications of changing work and retirement patterns
by Linda Rosenman & Jeni Warburton - 25-38 Introduction of long‐term care insurance in Germany: An economic interpretation
by Laszlo Goerke - 39-52 Unemployment insurance in Bulgaria and other East European countries: The transition to a market economy
by Krassimira Sredkova - 53-68 Élite opinion on retirement pensions
by Vie George
July 1996, Volume 49, Issue 3
- 3-20 Providing better protection and promoting growth: A defence of Averting the old age crisis
by Estelle Lames - 21-43 Pension reform, the stock market, capital formation and economic growth: A critical commentary on the World Bank's proposals
by Ajit Singh - 45-63 Principles of financing social security pensions
by Lawrence H. Thompson - 65-74 Italy: A fundamental transformation of the pension system
by Emmanuel Reynaud & Adelheid Hege - 75-80 POLAND What reform of the social insurance system?
by Eva Borowczyk - 81-90 BANGLADESH The Grameen Bank health programme
by Andrea Steinert & Hans Jürgen Rösner
January 1996, Volume 49, Issue 1
- 3-17 Cost containment in complex social security systems: The limitations of targeting
by Helen Bolderson & Deborah Mabbett - 19-29 Privatization, provision, and targeting: Trends and policy implications for social security in the United States
by Neil Gilbert & Neung‐Hoo Park - 31-49 The advantages and disadvantages of the contribution base in targeting benefits: A social analysis of the insurance scheme in the United Kingdom
by Pete Alcock - 51-71 Indonesian social security in transition: An empirical analysis
by Bambang Purwoko - 73-80 Harmonizing social security legislation in the English‐speaking Caribbean
by Nicholas J.O. Liverpool
July 1995, Volume 48, Issue 3‐4
- 5-22 A risky strategy: Reflections on the World Bank Report Averting the old age crisis
by Roger Beattie & Warren McGillivray