This paper assesses Singapore's healthcare financing arrangements in terms of their efficiency, fairness, and adequacy. Singapore represents an interesting case study because it is perhaps the only high-income, rapidly ageing country to rely on mandatory savings to finance healthcare, thus...

India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is the largest public-works based rural livelihood programme in the world. One of the important policy objectives of the Scheme is to curb rural out-migration by guaranteeing demand-driven employment opportunities for...

Purpose – To examine the case for reforming India's current provident and pension fund governance and regulatory structures. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews various components of India's social security system with a view to identifying reform needs in their governance and...

Deregulation and its Discontents examines the different ways in which the issues related to deregulation and reregulation have been addressed in Asia. The role of government in business has gone through distinct, if overlapping, cycles: regulation, deregulation and reregulation. However, little...

Purpose – To examine the case for reforming India's current provident and pension fund governance and regulatory structures. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews various components of India's social security system with a view to identifying reform needs in their governance and...