Building social security : the challenge of privatization /: the challenge of privatization. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Xenia Scheil-Adlung, editor.
• Editors: Scheil-Adlung, Xenia
• Contents: Part 1. Privatization: visions, effects, and challenges. Social security privatization: different context, different discourse -- Privatization: more individual choice in social protection -- Africa: implications of privatization measures initiated by international financing organizations -- Part 2. Privatization: an organizing principle for financing social security? The case for funded, individual accounts in pension reform -- Individual accounts versus social insurance: a United States perspective -- Strengthening public pensions with private investment- Canada's approach to privatization pressures -- Part 3. Privatization: a tool for governance? Germany: efficiency and affordability in social security through partial privatization of provision for risks -- Privatization: from panacea to poison pill- the Dutch paradigm -- Healthy markets- sick patients? Effects of recent trends on the health care market -- Social health insurance development in low-income developing countries: new roles for government and nonprofit health insurance organizations in Africa and Asia -- Part 4. The empirical framework: national experiences of privatization in various branches of social security -- The privatization of pensions in Latin America and its impacts on the insured, the economy, and old-age people -- First experiences with the privatization of the Polish pension scheme: a status report -- Austria's discussion on social security privatization: some notes focusing on old-age insurance -- The evolution of public and private insurance in Sweden during the 1990s -- Tunisian health insurance: towards complementarity of public and private sector -- Impact of private sector involvement in health insurance in Uruguay: a status report -- China: from public health insurance to a multi-tiered structure -- Impacts of private sector involvement in health insurance in Indonesia -- Trends in private sector involvement in the delivery of workforce development services in the United States -- Changes in employment services through deregulation -- The privatization of accident compensation in New Zealand -- The advantages of statutory over private employment accident insurance: the example of Germany -- The Danish experience with privatization: new ways of solving tasks.
• Publisher Details: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 368.4; Social security -- Finance; Privatization; Social security individual investment accounts; Social security -- Finance -- Case studies; Sécurité sociale -- Finances; Privatisation; Épargne-retraite; Sécurité sociale -- Finances -- Cas, Études de; Privatization; Social security -- Finance; Social security individual investment accounts; Privatisierung; Sozialversicherung; Privatisations; Sécurité sociale -- Finances; Épargne-retraite; Aufsatzsammlung; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Insurance / Risk Assessment & Management; Electronic books; Aufsatzsammlung; Case studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351313544; 1351313541
• Related ISBNs: 9781138519886; 9780765808783
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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