Reinventing social security worldwide: Back to essentials
Vladimir Rys
Abstract
Prior to the onset of the recent financial crisis, global trends of social security in industrialised societies were indicating a progressive disengagement of the State in favour of tax-financed measures similar to social assistance, which may fail to ensure a basic standard of living. In this book 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.
Keywords:
financial crisis,
global social security,
industrialised societies,
tax-financed measures,
social assistance,
living standards,
social insurance,
income redistribution,
money flows,
citizen information
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781847426413 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781847426413.001.0001 |
