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This publication considers the range of financing options available for the design of cost-effective and equitable social welfare systems, giving a thorough analysis of their advantages and disadvantages and their financial and economic implications. Written by practitioners for practitioners, the book discusses the design and maintenance of national social protection systems that seek to ensure effective and efficient use of available resources at the community, national and international levels while supporting long-term economic development. The book explores theoretical and practical policy questions, as well as looking at the policy process that determines the affordable levels of and scope of social protection in a given country.
Michael Cichon is chief of the Financial, Actuarial and Statistical Services Branch of the ILO's Social Protection Sector. Wolfgang Scholz works in the Social Security Department of the ILO. Arthur van de Meerendonk is owner and director of Magazijn13 BV. Krzysztof Hagemejer is chief at the Policy Development and Research Group in the Social Security Department of the ILO. Fabio Bertranou is Senior Labor Market and Social Protection Specialist for the ILO. Pierre Plamondon works in the Financial, Actuarial and Statistical Branch of the Social Security Department at the ILO.
