International Impact upon Social Security

This book records the proceedings of the 1998 Conference of the European Institute of Social Security, held at Balatonfüred in Hungary, to consider the effects of globalisation on trends in social security. Among the important issues raised are:

<li class=copymedium>New schemes for financing social security programmes, particularly private funding initiatives; <li class=copymedium>effects of the aging of the population, high unemployment and rising healthcare costs; <li class=copymedium> the impact of ILO and Council of Europe standards in health services and old-age pensions; and <li class=copymedium>the privatisation of social security and its sociological consequences.

<p class=copymedium><b>International Impact upon Social Security</b> also offers valuable perceptions of the role social security issues play in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights; the insights for Europe to be gained from Chile's profoundly reformed pension system; and considerations about who guarantees social security as States rely increasingly on the competencies of supranational bodies.