Building social security : the challenge of privatization / Xenia Scheil-Adlung, editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Dalmer D. Hoskins -- Introductory Overview / Xenia Scheil-Adlung -- 1. Social Security Privatization: Different Context - Different Discourse / Christiane Kuptsch -- 2. Privatization: More Individual Choice in Social Protection / Monika Queisser -- 3. Africa: Implications of Privatization Measures Initiated by International Financing Organizations / Theopiste Butare -- 4. The Case for Funded, Individual Accounts in Pension Reform / Robert Holzmann and Robert Palacios -- 5. Individual Accounts Versus Social Insurance: A United States Perspective / Alicia Munnell -- 6. Strengthening Public Pensions with Private Investment - Canada's Approach to Privatization Pressures / Monica Townson -- 7. Germany: Efficiency and Affordability in Social Security through Partial Privatization of Provision for Risks / Jurgen Husmann -- 8. Privatization: From Panacea to Poison Pill - The Dutch Paradigm / Dik Hermans --

9. Healthy Markets - Sick Patients? Effects of Recent Trends on the Health Care Market / Xenia Scheil-Adlung -- 10. Social Health Insurance Development in Low-Income Developing Countries: New Roles for Government and Nonprofit Health Insurance Organizations in Africa and Asia / Guy Carrin, Martinus Desmet and Robert Basaza -- 11. The Privatization of Pensions in Latin America and Its Impacts on the Insured, the Economy, and Old-Age People / Carmelo Mesa-Lago -- 12. First Experiences with the Privatization of the Polish Pension Scheme: A Status Report / Ewa Borowczyk -- 13. Austria's Discussion on Social Security Privatization: Some Notes Focusing on Old-Age Insurance / Walter Geppert -- 14. The Evolution of Public and Private Insurance in Sweden during the 1990s / Edward Palmer -- 15. Tunisian Health Insurance: Towards Complementarity of Public and Private Sector / Mohamed Ridha Kechrid --

16. Impact of Private Sector Involvement in Health Insurance in Uruguay: A Status Report / Julio Pilon -- 17. China: From Public Health Insurance to a Multi-Tiered Structure / Aidi Hu -- 18. Impacts of Private Sector Involvement in Health Insurance in Indonesia / Sonja Roesma -- 19. Trends in Private Sector Involvement in the Delivery of Workforce Development Services in the United States / Stephen A. Wandner and Janet O. Javar -- 20. Changes in Employment Services through Deregulation / Regina Konle-Seidl and Ulrich Walwei -- 21. The Privatization of Accident Compensation in New Zealand / John Miller -- 22. The Advantages of Statutory over Private Employment Accident Insurance: The Example of Germany / Gunther Sokoll -- 23. The Danish Experience with Privatization: New ways of Solving Tasks / Karen Sejersdal Christensen.