Reinventing Social Security Worldwide: Back to Essentials

by Vladimir Rys

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 timely book the author, with his life-long experience of international social security, advocates reinstating social insurance by reducing the volume...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847426409
• ISBN13: 9781847426406
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"