This issue

• Spotlights the evolving challenges confronting Europe’s social security systems
• Discusses innovations to support administrative excellence and safeguard European social security
• Outlines how social security and labour market policies can together produce coherent outcomes
• Advocates a more effective mix of social security’s protective, proactive and preventive roles

This issue

• Outlines current trends and multiple factors in occupational disease incidence
• Discusses the impact of occupational diseases on social security systems
• Advocates a holistic approach to prevention
• Highlights social security’s role in risk prevention, health promotion and return to work

This issue

• Examines noncommunicable disease (NCD) incidence and risk factors and evaluates progress in tackling NCDs
• Summarizes the impacts of NCDs on social security and health care systems
• Highlights good practices in preventing and controlling NCDs
• Recommends the workplace as a priority setting for health promotion by social security

This issue

• Confirms social security administrations in the Americas as innovators in programme design and social security education efforts
• Draws attention to the region’s positive results in tackling poverty and inequality
• Pinpoints coverage extension under contributory programmes as a priority challenge
• Underscores that fragmented social security systems can be inefficient and ineffective

This issue

• Confirms that social security in Asia and the Pacific is capable of extending coverage to vulnerable groups
• Supports earlier and forward-looking interventions by the region’s social security programmes to address new challenges and meet complex needs
• Reveals how social security systems are responding to a broad range of shocks, crisis and natural disasters
• Identifies how ICT and modern management techniques improve social security administrations’ service delivery in the region

This issue

• Highlights four key areas where actuaries play a lead role in support of sustainable social security
• Identifies the challenges that actuaries must take into account in fulfilling their mandate
• Summarizes good practices in actuarial work
• Reports on initiatives supported by the ISSA to promote actuarial good practice

This issue

• Highlights four sustainable and positive contributions that ICT is making to social security
• Summarizes the challenges of putting in place and managing effective ICT
• Identifies key elements to the successful implementation of ICT solutions

This issue

• Introduces the role of return-to-work (RTW) programmes in the management of disability benefit claims
• Discusses disability-related costs and the likely cost-benefit of RTW programmes
• Suggests that earlier intervention and coordinated action are essential to the success of RTW programmes
• Underlines the employment challenges facing workers with disabilities

This issue

• Summarizes recent developments and trends in African social security
• Demonstrates that rapid extension of contributory coverage is achievable
• Explores African evidence in support of the emerging global trend toward forward-looking and earlier interventions in social security
• Discusses the policy priorities and challenges for African social security

This issue:

• Explains why success in contribution collection and compliance is essential
• Discusses success factors and challenges to improved contribution collection and compliance
• Outlines national examples of good practice in contribution collection and compliance
• Underlines that good governance in social security administration is vital

This issue:

• Discusses the role of prevention in occupational safety and health (OSH) strategies
• Explains why the promotion of OSH is essential for social security systems
• Presents new evidence showing how the “return on prevention” is costeffective and beneficial for workers, enterprises and society

This issue

• Outlines key facts and figures about global social security coverage
• Introduces the ISSA Strategy for the extension of social security coverage and the joint United Nations agency initiative for a Social Protection Floor
• Explains how positive synergies between these initiatives could help realize improved coverage
• Concludes that coverage challenges at the national level often remain and, in this regard, the ISSA’s role is key

This issue

• Explains current and evolving trends in global migration patterns
• Discusses the social protection challenges confronting migrants
• Presents policy responses to ensure the improved social protection of migrants
• Concludes that improved access to contributory social security for migrants is necessary, but not sufficient when social security systems remain underdeveloped in many countries

This issue

• Identifies four major demographic trends impacting health care systems globally
• Summarizes the responses of health care systems to demographic change
• Spotlights policy challenges and priorities for improving access to health care

This issue

• Outlines the demographic context and explains its consequences for pension systems
• Examines the different reform options available to address the challenge of demographic change in more- and less-developed regions
• Highlights that sustainable pension systems must be socially as well as financially sustainable
• Underlines the role of the State in ensuring good governance and in creating an inclusive approach to reform

This issue:

• Outlines the demographic, political and financial challenges facing family benefits programmes
• Summarizes contextual social factors influencing the design and delivery of family benefits
• Presents evidence of integrated measures to address child poverty
• Highlights evolving expectations about the roles of family benefits
• Reports on common policy roles and objectives of family benefits programmes

This issue:

• Summarizes recent developments and trends in social security in the Americas
• Critically evaluates the social policy outcomes of individual accounts pension systems and cash transfer programmes
• Highlights a growing role for social dialogue in policy-making
• Discusses the financial and economic crisis and its implications for social security financing in the Americas

This issue

• Summarizes the evolving nature of global population ageing
• Reports on the challenges of rising elderly dependency ratios for social security systems in ageing societies
• Details the labour market and savings opportunities for societies with falling youth dependency ratios
• Considers how national collective goals may influence adaptation to population ageing
• Presents policy lessons for national social security systems

This issue

• Investigates recent developments and trends in social security in Europe
• Reports on key areas of reform in social security policies and programmes
• Analyses the influence of overarching forces on social security reform
• Discusses the challenges for social security administrators
• Presents key policy messages for the development of social security in Europe

This issue

• Summarizes the impact of the crisis on social security financing
• Reports on national social security responses to the crisis
• Details some of the challenges faced by pension funds
• Considers the role accorded to social security systems as agents of crisis management

This issue

• Summarizes recent developments and trends in Asia and the Pacific
• Spotlights the integral role of the state in extending coverage
• Discusses national efforts to extend social security and health-care coverage
• Explores major policy challenges facing the region’s social security organizations
• Underlines social security as a necessary stabilizing and proactive force in times of crisis

This issue

• Outlines the traditional role of prevention in occupational safety and health programmes
• Debates the trend towards a broader role for prevention in social security
• Underlines the wider importance of realizing improvements in healthfor social security systems
• Defines administrative and legal challenges to building a cultureof prevention

This issue

• Summarizes recent developments and trends in African social security
• Highlights the growth of multi-pillar (or tiered) pension systems in Africa
• Discusses Africa’s innovative approaches to extending coverage under social health insurance
• Explores the role of ISSA member organizations in Africa in promoting Dynamic Social Security

This issue:

• Looks at the challenge of extending health coverage
• Outlines different health protection financing models
• Highlights measures to extend coverage and deliver services

This issue:

• Discusses how investment guidelines aim to contribute to social security’s sustainability
• Pinpoints challenges to optimizing social security investments
• Outlines the policy dilemma of satisfying the investment needs of social security and the national economy

This issue:

• Draws attention to the link between labour markets and social security
• Highlights an international trend toward non-standard employment
• Underlines how regional, sectoral, gender, and age factors influence access to labour markets and social security
• Discusses how social security can adjust to labour market challenges
• Argues the importance of better anticipating labour market evolution

This issue:

• Defines elements of performance management practice
• Highlights the added-value of public social security administrations
• Identifies obstacles to achieving improved performance
• Provides policy lessons for improving performance

This issue:

• Tracks recent trends in disability benefits
• Outlines the forces driving the growth in disability benefit claims
• Discusses policy responses to reduce the number of disability benefit claims
• Presents key policy insights for achieving desired policy outcomes

This issue:

• Spotlights key challenges facing social security globally
• Presents evidence of how social security is adjusting
• Identifies obstacles to “social security for all”
• Pinpoints policy issues to improve social security outcomes