scholarly journals FACTORS THAT POTENTIALLY AFFECT THE FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF THE PENSION SYSTEM IN ROMANIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Luise Mladen

In Romania, the State Social Security Budget spending exceeds the revenues, and this situation leads to a growing deficit of the public budget. This evolution is the result of a complex of factors, more or less difficult to be managed, which we analyze in this article. The phenomenon of ageing has a significant role in increasing the pressure on the social protection systems, in general, and on the pension system, in particular. Also, the labour market related factors and the economic factors have an important impact on the sustainability of the pension system. The design of the pension system is equally important.

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 263
Author(s):  
Mônica de Castro Maia Senna ◽  
Aline Souto Maior Ferreira ◽  
Valentina Sofia Suarez Baldo

O artigo analisa como sistemas de proteção social na América Latina têm respondido à grave situação social decorrente da pandemia de COVID-19. Pautado em estudo exploratório, o artigo toma como foco as experiências da Argentina, Brasil e México. A perspectiva de análise considera que as respostas produzidas por esses três casos às demandas sociais postas pela pandemia decorrem da interseção entre o legado prévio e estrutura institucional dos sistemas de proteção social existentes em cada país, a orientação política dos governos em exercício e a dinâmica social e política diante do contexto da crise sanitária. Verifica que nos três países, a despeito de medidas protetivas de maior ou menor abrangência e magnitude, que reforçam a proteção social existente ou introduzem novos mecanismos – todos eles temporários – a crise social própria às formações sociais latino-americanas se agravou.LATIN AMERICAN SOCIAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS AND RESPONSES TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: Argentina, Brazil and MexicoAbstractThe article analyses how social protection systems in Latina America have responded to the serious social situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Guided by an exploratory study, the paper focuses on the experiences of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. The analysis considers that the responses produced by the three cases results from the intersection between the institutional structure’s previous legacy of the social protection systems existing in each country, the political orientation of the governments in exercise and the social and political dynamics in the sanitary crisis context. It seems that, despite protective measures of greater or lesser scope and magnitude, which either reinforce the existing social protections or introduce new mechanisms – all of them temporary – the social crisis specific to Latin American social formations has worsened in the countries studied.Keywords: Social protection. COVID-19. Brazil. México. Argentina


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gibran Cruz-Martinez

This is the introductory chapter of the book Welfare and Social Protection in Contemporary Latin America. The purpose of the book is threefold: (i) to present a historical and theoretical analysis of social protection systems and welfare regimes in contemporary Latin America; (ii) to discuss the politics of contemporary social protection and how national/global actors and institutions shape social policy in the region; and (iii) to examine several debates on social protection and welfare systems in contemporary Latin America. The chapter presents state-of-the-art research in the areas of social policy and welfare that is examined in each of the three parts of the book. What do we know about welfare regimes in Latin America? What do we know about the role of (f)actors shaping social protection development and inclusion? What do we know about recent debates regarding social protection and welfare in Latin America? Particular attention is paid to the contribution made by chapters in this edited volume to the social policy literature. The chapter finishes with a description of the content and results of each chapter in this edited volume.


2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evilasio Salvador ◽  
Sandra Oliveira Teixeira

Diante das dificuldades sofridas pela proteção social em tempos de agudização da crise do capital, este artigo tem por objetivo principal apresentar uma metodologia de análise crítica do orçamento público para além dos manuais tradicionais de finanças públicas. O artigo está organizado em quatro seções. A primeira seção evidencia os conceitos de fundo público e orçamento público, destacando a presença ativa dos recursos públicos na esfera da acumulação produtiva e na garantia das políticas sociais. A segunda parte do texto apresenta critérios relevantes para a análise dos gastos orçamentários, especialmente os gastos sociais. A terceira seção aborda o financiamento das políticas sociais na perspectiva crítica que busca uma análise da totalidade do custeio dos gastos sociais. Por fim, destaca a importância do controle democrático do orçamento e do fundo público. Aborda uma perspectiva analítica que corrobora com o delineamento de tendências acerca da condição dos direitos sociais e humanos.Palavras-chave: Fundo Público; orçamento público; financiamento; gastos sociais; controle democráticoBUDGET AND PUBLIC POLICIES: analysis’ methodology in critical perspectiveAbstract: Given the suffered difficulties by the social protection in exacerbation times of the capital crisis this article has as principal goal to show a methodology of critical analysis of the public budget in addition the traditional manual of public finance. The article is organized in four sections. The first section evidences the concept of public fund and public budget, emphasizing the active presence of public resource in the scope of the productive accumulation and the assurance of socialpolicy. The second section shows relevant criteria for the analysis of budget expenditures, especially social spending. The third section addresses the financing of social policies in the critical perspective that seeks an analysis of all costs of the social spending. In the end, highlights the importance of the democratic control of the budget and the public fund. It is ananalytical perspective corroborates with the delineation of trends about the condition of social and human rights.


2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-72
Author(s):  
Gaabriel Tavits

Ensuring social protection for people having lost their jobs is an important part of the social protection system. Although health insurance and pension insurance have traditionally been the most important social protection systems, then social guarantees (both passive and active measures) for the unemployed cannot be underestimated in the changed forms of employment. New forms of work necessitate attention to whether and how people working under new forms of employment, e.g. platform workers, can register as unemployed and whether short-term employment may worsen their standing compared to other unemployed. This article analyses the Estonian social protection system for the unemployed and the planned changes in connection with platform work.


Management ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-214
Author(s):  
Andrzej Czyżewski ◽  
Anna Matuszczak

Summary The purpose of this article was to show that the existence of ASIF, as an important element of the social insurance system for farmers in Poland is not unique on a European scale. There were shown relationships ASIF with the budget and the characteristics of social insurance of farmers in selected countries of the European Network of Agricultural Social Protection Systems (ENASP)


2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-210
Author(s):  
Linda Hantrais

When the European Economic Community was established in 1957, the six founding member states (Belgium, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands) had a shared interest, though each for their own reasons, in ensuring that provisions to promote the harmonisation of national social protection systems figured in the treaties. Progressively, and as membership of the Community expanded and diversified, the social dimension came to be accepted as a legitimate, albeit contested and subordinate, component in European law and policy. Whereas the social protection systems of the six original member states could be considered as variants of the continental model of welfare, the new waves of membership in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s brought different conceptions of social protection, making harmonisation ever-more difficult to achieve. Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom in the second wave were characterised by their universal welfare systems. Greece, Portugal and Spain in the third wave had less developed, minimalist provision for social protection. In the fourth wave, Austria was closer to the founding member states, whereas Finland and Sweden represented the Nordic model with their universalist system based on social democratic criteria.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvador Seguí-Cosme

<div><p>The Spanish post-crisis scenario of structural unemployment and job insecurity poses a new challenge to the public pension system: The trajectories of structurally precarious contributions, which carry the risk that future generations of retirees dispose of social protection levels considerably inferior to those of the current generations. The Spanish public pension system, already troubled by problems of sustainability, should be rethought in the context of a redefinition of the social security subsystem linked to the labor market.</p></div>


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