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- Title: Social Security Beyond Pension Reform.
- Author : Public Finance and Management
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 262 KB
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Abstract This concluding essay expresses optimism over possibilities for the emergence of a new consensus on policies to address the needs of poor older people world-wide as a prioritized element within wider strategies both to close the global social security coverage gap and to reform the management and delivery of social protection. However, it tempers this optimism with caution over prospects for their easy implementation. This caution, in part, stems from the lasting implications of the pensions reform agenda pursued from the mid-1990s which undermined the principles and practice of state-managed contributory social security. Moreover, implementation of ambitious, but also urgently needed, social pension reform programmes designed to extend coverage radically by providing older people in even the poorest countries with small, but regular, cash incomes will not be automatic, and, given existing, well entrenched, donor approaches and arrangements, will require significant amounts of new donor money to be found. Since remedial programmes designed to address the global coverage crisis will be based on non-contributory principles, their adoption threatens further to marginalize already weakened contributory social security institutions. Particular care, therefore, needs to be taken to involve the Geneva institutions if the new era of pension reform is not to repeat the mistakes of its predecessor and, specifically, is to lead to the wider reform and strengthening of social security provision world-wide.