Social security : what can developing countries learn from developed countries?
Year: 2007
Type: preprint
Abstract: In developed countries, social security covers workers and their dependents against old age, unemployment, health, and other risks. In developing countries, formal-sector workers have access to social insurance, and the very poor have some access to social assistance and health services, but large population groups are not covered. Extending social security coverage would require delinking social security benefits and labormarket status; creating new institutions to cover currently excluded groups; financing these new programs through general taxation; improving tax collection; reducing the costs of formal-sector benefits; and increasing the costs of informal-sector benefits.
Author: Jean-Jacques Dethier
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2159008380