Today rural sector reform is a paramount issue in Indonesian development. Yet, different social actorshave different perspectives and stances towards it. Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) inIndonesia have established themselves in pivotal positions in the social, economic and...

CII Introduction: Our previous thinkpiece by Mick McAteer described how the transfer of risk from the state to the individual is failing. Protection is one area where this problem persists: state income support is rolling back and private protection insurance is simply not alleviating the gap,...

In die Diskussionen über die Konsequenzen der demographischen Entwicklung für die Sozialversicherungssystemewurde das Wohneigentum bisher nur fragmentarisch und unsystematischeinbezogen. Dies ist durchaus bemerkenswert, weil das Wohneigentum in zweifacherHinsicht in Beziehung zu den Problemen...

The paper examines the structural and organisational problems of social insurancesystems in Brazil and the Argentine in order to illuminate current debates about pension‘reform’. Much of the present discussion depicts social insurance ‘crisis’ as a modernphenomenon. Similarly,...

Europe is a continent of cities with a remarkable history of cultural inspiration, wealth creation, social andpolitical dynamism. But in the late-20th century, many former industrial cities entered a period of steep decline,losing most of their manufacturing jobs and many of their economic...

Europe is a continent of cities with a remarkable history of cultural inspiration, wealth creation, social and politicaldynamism. But in the late-20th century, many former industrial cities entered a period of steep decline, losingmost of their manufacturing jobs and many of their economic...

Die vorliegende Broschüre zeigt die Grundzüge der schweizerischen Sozialversicherungen in der Alters,- Hinterlassenen- und Invalidenversicherung (AHV/IV, 1. Säule) und in der beruflichen Vorsorge (2. Säule) auf ...

Gründungen aus der Arbeitslosigkeit haben in den zurückliegenden Jahreneine bedeutende Rolle im Gründungsgeschehen gespielt. Im Jahr 2004, derHochzeit des Existenzgründungszuschusses („Ich-AG“), waren mehr als350.000 Gründungen aus der Arbeitslosigkeit zu verzeichnen (vgl. Abbildung1)....

We estimate the magnitude of social interaction effects in disability pension participation amongolder workers in Norway. The problem of omitted variable bias is addressed using neighbors’exposure to plant downsizing events as an instrument for the disability entry rate among one’spreviously...

Regular annual studies made by the Office of National Statistics in the UK areintended to show how far taxing household incomes and giving benefits in cash andkind to households redistributes income from rich to poor. The first attempt to do thisin the UK was made by Tibor Barna for the year...