Providing the solution to the debt and deficit problems of developed economies is too big a task. I doubt it is possible to offer general recipes that can apply to all industrial countries, despite the surprisingly common origins of the deficit problems documented by the Mussa and Masson paper in this conference. For example, while in most countries accumulated social security liabilities repre...

Background: Solving the problem of food and nutrition security requires the integration of various sectors of the society. Determining the role of each sector in promoting people’s health has presented intersectoral collaboration and transformed the theory of social health determinant approach into action. In this study, with a new approach, and in regards, the national organizations resp...

I N R E S P O N S E T O several inquiries and requests from members of the Congress for in format ion concerning the protection of the social security rights of individuals i n the m i l i t a r y service, the following statements by A r t h u r J . A l tmeyer , Chairman of the Social Security B o a r d , were presented i n the Congress i n October. These statements, dealing w i t h possible me...

This paper examines the historical evolution of China's rural taxation system and provides an initial assessment of the ongoing rural tax reform. It is argued that the issue of rural taxation and local governance in China is one typical challenge arising from the inherent tension between an increasingly liberalized economic system and a still centralized political system. Though the rural tax r...

We use linked administrative data from program and earnings records to summarize the 2007 employment rates of Social Security disability program beneficiaries at the national and state levels, as well as changes in employment since 1996. The findings provide new information on the employment activities of beneficiaries that should be useful in assessing current agency policies and providing ben...