Challenges to Social Security: An International Exploration

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Social security systems throughout the world are faced with unprecedented challenges in response to growing criticisms about unacceptable expenditures for government programmes and questions about the appropriate role of government in providing social protection through social insurance and social assistance programmes. The challenges are also a result of dramatic demographic, social and cultural changes around the world. A variety of radical and modest reform measures are currently being discussed which have the potential of significantly impacting the means of income and health care for the elderly, children and families.

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.,."explores the sondition of world social security systems in light of an aging global populace and deteriorating government finances... The book provides the reader with a literature review of the effects of social security programs on economic development and a historical account of events leading to social insurance legislation. While the book examines US problems in depth, the authors carefully tailor content to satisfy those who want to investigate the experiences of other countries...Upper-division undergraduate through professional."-Choice
...explores the sondition of world social security systems in light of an aging global populace and deteriorating government finances... The book provides the reader with a literature review of the effects of social security programs on economic development and a historical account of events leading to social insurance legislation. While the book examines US problems in depth, the authors carefully tailor content to satisfy those who want to investigate the experiences of other countries...Upper-division undergraduate through professional.-Choice
..."explores the sondition of world social security systems in light of an aging global populace and deteriorating government finances... The book provides the reader with a literature review of the effects of social security programs on economic development and a historical account of events leading to social insurance legislation. While the book examines US problems in depth, the authors carefully tailor content to satisfy those who want to investigate the experiences of other countries...Upper-division undergraduate through professional."-Choice

Author Bio

JAMES MIDGLEY is Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Professor of Social Work, Louisiana State University. MARTIN B. TRACY is Director and Professor, School of Social Work, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Both have written extensively on international and comparative social welfare issues.