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Social Security is a government sponsored social insurance programs.
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Will a 5% ten year in 2024 and a impending maturity wall of required U.S.Treasury refinancings lead interest on the debt overtake Defense, Social security,and Medicare as the single largest line item in the Federal budget?How can a government so indebted pay a mkt rate?
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U.S. debt offers the safest heaven for Chinese forex reserves, which effectively means that China offers loans to the U.S. so that the U.S. can keep buying the goods China produces. As long as China continues to have an export-driven economy with a huge trade surplus with the U.S., it will keep piling up U.S. dollars and U.S. debt. Chinese loans to the U.S., through the purchase of U.S. debt, enable the U.S. to buy Chinese products. It’s a win-win situation for both nations, with both benefiting mutually. China gets a huge market for its products, and the U.S. benefits from the economical prices of Chinese goods. Beyond their well-known political rivalry, both nations (willingly or unwillingly) are locked in a state of inter-dependency from which both benefit, and which is likely to continue.
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All these concepts are well-defined and precisely described. Their societal and environmental implications are at the heart of humanity's concerns: poverty, natural resources, human development, aging populations, social security, pensions, migratory fluxes... Obviously, all these questions arise in completely opposite ways depending on whether we place ourselves on the side of developed countries or of developing countries, which is not without creating tensions at the interfaces. Sometimes these become unbearable to such an extent that they lead to real crises or presage of future redoubtable imbalances. The subsidiary question would be: how can we reconcile, balance, and cooperate to design and promote a reliable common future, for all people on the planet? Let's think together on this nagging issue at the same time fascinating.
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Dear Doctor
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Human population growth and the demographic transition
John Bongaarts
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2009 Oct 27; 364(1532): 2985–2990.
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0137
"ABSTRACT
The world and most regions and countries are experiencing unprecedentedly rapid demographic change. The most obvious example of this change is the huge expansion of human numbers: four billion have been added since 1950. Projections for the next half century expect a highly divergent world, with stagnation or potential decline in parts of the developed world and continued rapid growth in the least developed regions. Other demographic processes are also undergoing extraordinary change: women's fertility has dropped rapidly and life expectancy has risen to new highs. Past trends in fertility and mortality have led to very young populations in high fertility countries in the developing world and to increasingly older populations in the developed world. Contemporary societies are now at very different stages of their demographic transitions.
Global population growth will continue for decades, reaching around 9.2 billion in 2050 and peaking still higher later in the century. The demographic drivers of this growth are high fertility in parts of the South, as well as declining mortality and momentum. This large expansion in human numbers and of the accompanying changes in the age structure will have multiple consequences for society, the economy and the environment."
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What are the differences in taxation of companies and employees vis-à-vis analogous entities in which all employed workers have been replaced by artificial intelligence?
How does the system of taxation of income generated by business entities and their employees differ from analogous companies, businesses, financial institutions, etc., in which all employed workers have been replaced by artificial intelligence?
In a situation where in many service companies and many manufacturing companies, as part of the so-called cost optimisation and profitability improvement, a significant part, the majority of the employed workers or the entire workforce will be replaced by artificial intelligence technology, the tax revenue going to the state budget from income taxes of the previously employed workers and the amounts from para-taxes, contributions to the social security system and others will significantly decrease if the tax system is not applied modified and adapted to the fourth technological revolution currently taking place. In addition, a long-standing process of change in the demographic structure of society, known as ageing, is taking place in developed countries. This means a successive decrease in the number of people in many productive years against people who have already reached retirement age. This will further weaken the state's public finance system in the years to come. If, in the future, the state is to ensure convenient provision of public goods and services for the next generations of citizens, the social security system, the participatory pension system, etc. are to function effectively, the necessary changes, including in the area of fiscal policy, should already be introduced. However, the issue of shaping socio-economic policy, including fiscal policy, social policy, provision of public goods by the state to citizens, etc., may be a problem mainly in the short term (a few months) or medium term (up to a few years) instead of the long term (at least a few decades of time).
In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:
How does the system of taxation of the income generated by economic entities and the employees employed in these entities differ from the analogous companies, enterprises, financial institutions, etc., in which all employed employees have been replaced by artificial intelligence?
What is your opinion on this?
What is your opinion on this subject?
Please respond,
I invite you all to discuss,
Thank you very much,
Best regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
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Before giving out the answer I would state that it is highly improbable that this scenario comes to pass, if history is any guide. History shows that any offset due to innovation leads to a temporary dislocation of the workforce [1] until the workforce is re-educated[2].
Now for the answer (assuming the improbable)
I would echo Christoff Botha in his statement that it all boils down to "the difference between the respective country's corporate and personal income tax rates". Now since the relationship between the two is not linear I would assume that the initial result would be detrimental to the taxation results. The backlash from unemployment will put pressure on government to establish more assistance programs and raise the taxation rates(In an effort to at least reach equilibrium). Obviously, the wealth/digital divide will widen further as a result.
References
[1] Autor, D., & Salomons, A. (2018). Is automation labor-displacing? Productivity growth, employment, and the labor share (No. w24871). National Bureau of Economic Research.
[2] Vermeulen, B., Kesselhut, J., Pyka, A., & Saviotti, P. P. (2018). The impact of automation on employment: just the usual structural change?. Sustainability, 10(5), 1661.
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Respected sir i am on area social security and economic growth. Any one can suggest me any theory of growth relationship with social security.
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You may want to check the following paper out as regards the respective theory:
Social security, demographic trends, and economic growth: theory and evidence from the international experience
I Ehrlich, J Kim - 2005 - nber.org
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Hello!
I am trying to better understand the Italian market of radiology! A few questions for Italian radiologistes:
  • Where do we do X-ray the most?
  • Are Xray mostly done in private or public sector?
  • Private / Public repartition in terms of medical images made, # of radiologists?
  • How emergencies are handled?
  • How does social security systems / health insurances work?
  • pacs éditeurs name
  • AI software (detection on XRAY with AI)
  • platforms used by radiologists
  • patient workflow
I thank you so much in advance for your time and your attention !
Looking forward to reading all your infos
Giulia
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The most developed social security systems are situated in Europe. But there are obvious signs of emerging of social security in Eastern Asia. What are these signs?
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It is interesting to notice that there are differences between coastal China and inner China on this respect.
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Changes in social protection sphere are almost inevitable in many countries during and after Coronavirus crisis. What are they?
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It has increased already during pandemic, but if it remains after pandemic, is an open question. Some measures are surely only during pandemic.
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I am conducting a study in which a social security system is formed based on behavioral approaches. can you recommend research in this area, or cite the experience of countries that use behavioral economics in financing social spending?
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Think about the last time you purchased a customizable product. Perhaps it was a laptop computer. You may have decided to simplify your decision making by opting for a popular brand or the one you already owned in the past. You may then have visited the manufacturer’s website to place your order. But the decision making process did not stop there, as you now had to customize your model by choosing from different product attributes (processing speed, hard drive capacity, screen size, etc.) and you were still uncertain which features you really needed. At this stage, most technology manufacturers will show a base model with options that can be changed according to the buyer’s preferences. The way in which these product choices are presented to buyers will influence the final purchases made and illustrates a number of concepts from behavioral economic (BE) theories.
First, the base model shown in the customization engine represents a default choice. The more uncertain customers are about their decision, the more likely it is that they will go with the default, especially if it is explicitly presented as a recommended configuration. Second, the manufacturer can frame options differently by employing either an ‘add’ or ‘delete’ customization mode (or something in between). In an add mode, customers start with a base model and then add more or better options. In a delete frame, the opposite process occurs, whereby customers have to deselect options or downgrade from a fully-loaded model. Past research suggests that consumers end up choosing a greater number of features when they are in a delete rather than an add frame (Biswas, 2009). Finally, the option framing strategy will be associated with different price anchors prior to customization, which may influence the perceived value of the product. If the final configured product ends up with a £1500 price tag, its cost is likely to be perceived as more attractive if the initial default configuration was £2000 (fully loaded) rather than £1000 (base). Sellers will engage in a process of careful experimentation to find a sweet spot—an option framing strategy that maximizes sales, but set at a default price that deters a minimum of potential buyers from considering a purchase in the first place.
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Please send info on any 2021 sources of information on the status of the 2021 Social Security and Medicare Trust funds.
thank you
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The following book talks about the issue; you may want to check it out.
Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions: Get the Most Out of Your Retirement and Medical Benefits‏
J Matthews - 2021‏ - books.google.com‏
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The contractual relationship of GIG economy workers is transient, transactional and fragile. What is its impact on social security of the tech enabled gig economy workers and their performance .
Preferable ppt or content .
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Sir its in regard to India
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How can the social security system and the tax burden of business activities affect entrepreneurship and innovation on a national basis?
In my opinion, entrepreneurship develops effectively and becomes more and more competitive if the state creates the right conditions for entrepreneurs. First of all, low tax burden and low costs of contributions to the social insurance system. Contributions to the social security system should be adapted to the situation of running a business and the level of income.
On the other hand, there are countries in which the very fact of establishing a business entails the need to pay taxes and high premiums for the social security system even when real economic activity is not carried out and / or does not bring any or very low income and no profits. Such unfriendly tax and business activity systems operate in some countries.
Paradoxically, in some countries, taxes and contributions to the social security system, mainly micro-enterprises, are most heavily burdened with taxes. Paradoxically, micro-enterprises are often the source of new business solutions, innovations, start-up startups, and they are the source of entrepreneurship.
In some countries, the contributions paid by entrepreneurs to micro-enterprises for the social insurance system are fully voluntary and this has not led to a collapse and crisis in the state's public finance system in these countries. Some of the countries in which these contributions are voluntary are rich, developed countries in which entrepreneurship and innovation are effectively developing.
On the other hand, those countries in which these contributions to the social insurance system are compulsory and regardless of the economic situation, regardless of the generated profits, earnings and whether they actually conduct business activity in real terms, the public finance situation is not the best. What do you think about it? What is your opinion on this matter?
In the context of the above issues, I am asking you the following question:
How can the social security system and the tax burden of business activities affect entrepreneurship and innovation on a national basis?
Please reply
I invite you to the discussion
Thank you very much
Best wishes
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It depends on several factors such as firm size, Social sec n tax contribution size n etc... find that relaxing the social insurance mandate leads entrepreneurs to reduce their contributions by 16 percent, which they channel instead into their firms. While young firms use the saved cash to increase their sales by 11 percent and labor costs by 6 percent, older firms use it to improve their net lending position by purchasing stocks. Our results imply that the impact of the social insurance mandate on business activity is heterogeneous and depends on the age of the firm... Benzarti, Y., Harju, J., & Matikka, T. (2020). Does Mandating Social Insurance Affect Entrepreneurial Activity?. American Economic Review: Insights, 2(2), 255-68.
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The Government of Nepal promulgate the Contribution based social security program through the social security Act. The government have no contribution & no tax exemption for any benefit & returns from the SSF. Except some social insurance the beneficiaries will start to get return as pension only after age of 60. Total contribution will be 31% of basic salary , employee & employer will contribute 11% & 20% respectively per month. Participation on program is mandatory for all private organisation . Grievances , debates & discussions are ongoing , even the beneficiaries are not willing to participate as they have alternate funds like CIT , PF & other Insurance schemes .
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The government of Nepal has to put in place a policy to encourage participation, especially with regard to companies employing the contribution, was working to make its contribution to the guarantee 20 percent of tax deductions for income tax as a kind of encouragement to contribute
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Before implementing a pension reform some conditions and measures have to be taken mainly in political, social and administration era. For example, in political scope, different parties and unions have to yield a consensus to prevent likely protests after the reform. In the other hand, some measures have to be taken after the implementing the reform as well.
I need some articles that study the experience of other countries in taking (or even no taking) the above measures.
Any help is appreciated.
Regards.
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Pension is the reward offered to an employee who is no more engaged in service but toiled from dawn to twilight untiringly during his service tenure. As such the essence of reform must not farewell but for welfare.
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Hi, I'm developing a simulation game for teenagers to illustrating threats from social media and raise their awareness about social media threats and online security.
I want to create a questionnaire/survey to study the attitude of the study subjects if they're more cautious about social media threats or not after playing the game. It would be nice if I could find some past researches that focusing on raising social media threats awareness and could give me an example of the questionnaire/survey for evaluating the effectiveness of my game on raising social media threats awareness.
Thanks.
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Research methodology
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Impact on what? Your question too vague, what data are you work with?
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What is the most effective approach to applying a questionnaire for scientific research?
The reason for using questionnaire is to measure the awareness of security in social media for university students in the Middle East.
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Definitely yes
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In DB plans of social security, there is a straight connection between wage and pension benefits. does the minimum wage raise the cost or does make more income for social security?
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Germany introduced a minimum wage in 2015. Minimum wages are not directly coupled to the benefits of social security in Germany. However, the contributory payments of workers to the public system of pensions, health insurance, LTC insurance and unemployment insurance are determined relative to the individual income.
It is also an interesting question, how minimum wages impact the employment rate. Indirectly, unemployment leads to higher expenditures of social security. You may have a look at the following paper
Best,
Thomas Neusius
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If you could place these concerns into the categories: Technology, Information Security, Social and Political, it would help provide some structure to the responses. Thank you.
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I won’t really have much concern about me but I would be concerned about people who don’t know how to vote unless they are given instructions as it is usually done during elections conventionally. The question is whether that would even work ?
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We are planning to conduct a survey about employer attitudes about refugees (Syrians in Hatay, Turkey) and its consequences for labor market integration. We want to find out the factors that makes the employers hire refugees with legal work permissions and register them to social security agency. This will be my masters student's thesis. We have 4 items to measure perceived risk of having unregistered foreign workers, 5 items to measure perceived economic benefit of having registered foreign worker, 3 items for Subjective norm, and 4 items for ethnic stereotyping.
However our DV "intention to register foreign workers" has only one item. Do you think it is OK to use this single item variable in SEM?
Actually I think it would be very interesting to conduct a comparative study, once we complete our study too. So, we are also open for collaboration on this issue.
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Creo que sí, todo instrumento de investigacion puede incluir cuantos items precice para corroborar una hipótesis. Solo debes estar claro como se relacionan la percepción de riesgo de tener trabajadores extranjeros sin registro, los beneficio económico del trabajador extranjero registrado, norma subjetiva y estereotipos étnicos, con esta variable que propones en tu estudio (to register foreign workers...) Te sugiero revisar tus hipótesis....
Conoces a alguien que tenga estudios sobre Representacion social de la criminalidad en barrios marginales....? Sobre estos este tema versa mi actual investigación con el cuestionamiento de ser posible en paises como Cuba.
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What kind of scientific research dominate in the field of The role of education in the economy?
Education is one of the most important determinants of ensuring the country's economic development. It is also one of the forms of public goods, one of the social security categories for which the state is responsible for ensuring and financing at a given basic level. In addition, education in a modern, knowledge-based society, ie in contemporary developed economies, is becoming more and more important. In such economies, education shapes one of the most important factors of production, ie knowledge, information, technology, innovations and entrepreneurship.
Please reply. I invite you to the discussion
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The above question inspired me to the following considerations:
Is the progressive increase in the digitization of the education process a feature of the current technological revolution of Industry 4.0?
Is the progressive increase in the digitization of education process instruments a feature of the current technological revolution known as Industry 4.0?Measuring the impact of digital technology, including new online media on the process of learning and the effects of the education process can be based on a comparison of assessments at a specific time, a specific educational process supported by the use of new online media, social media portals and other technologies typical of the digital age. These technologies currently include mainly new technological solutions, streamlining improvements, innovations etc. regarding, among others, advanced data processing, including data obtained from the Internet, data processing in the cloud, Big Data database systems, using artificial intelligence, etc. These new technologies of advanced information processing co-create the current fourth technological revolution called Industry 4.0.In view of the above, the current question is: Is the progressive increase in the digitization of education process instruments a feature of the current technological revolution known as Industry 4.0?
Please, answer, comments.
I invite you to the discussion
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For example, if a (public) pension scheme is too complicated or unstable can have negative effects on business environment. Do you know any papers that have studied this topic?
Thanks so much.
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Good day,
Obstacles are presented by policy, specially politically driven discourses. A clear obstacle can be observed when the pension system is dependant on the direct control of political institutions, instead of having an independent public administration entity to manage it. Also, an having a clear (constitutional) mandate to support social programs can help overcome temporary shortfall created by the market.
On the other hand, there is research that supports the need for public pensions schemes, specially an adverse selection effect wishes to be avoided. Also, by diluting the risk by enlarging the pool of participants, a public pension program can be more stable than a private one. Adding to the idea, having a steady stream of income, outside of the market, allows for a more general redistribution of wealth that softens the effects of economic cycles.
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The research group OASYS (Optimization and Analytics for Sustainable EnergY Systems) at the University of Málaga (Málaga, Spain) is currently looking for talented and entrepreneurial candidates to fill a postdoctoral position on the topic "Data-driven optimization for decision making in energy."
The Postdoctoral Researcher is expected to possess a PhD preferably in mathematics (operations research, statistics, mathematical programming), control or electrical engineering.
The appointments involve a competitive salary (commensurate with qualifications), healthcare and social security insurance.
Detailed information on the position we are offering and on the application procedure can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/groupoasys/open-positions?authuser=0
Applications should be received no later than December 2, 2018.
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Question was asked 2 months before, amd i saw it now :(
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As social security contribution is considered as a cost in a PAYG system, both for employee and employer, some individuals try to evade by underreport their wages.
By measurement of this evasion can evaluate the lost income of a social security fund by contribution evasion.
Have you read any paper studying the topic?
Every help is appreciated.
Thanks.
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You are right Mr Thomas Neusius but in some countries (including my country) tax and social security administrations are not integrated but operate separately. Also, they have different regulations. For example, basic exemption for tax purposes is nearly two times of social security minimum wage (and of course it is taxed at source). Therefore, contribution evasion doesn't necessarily means tax evasion.
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I want to explore and examine the difficulties people living in flats face due to tenure insecurities in the city
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Thank you so much for your responses and clarity, Mr Pal and Mr. De Vries. I am sure now the understanding of the content assists me in generating ideas and criticisms under this topic i intend to research. My angle of thought to be used as narrowed focus to exploring the the impacts of tenure insecurities in urban areas, are the people residing in flats or rental accommodation. I believe your criticisms and advise would help me conduct a successful research project, provided of the background and Ideas I have in regarding research.
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It is interesting as SL government (MOH) has complied a policy document for ''Elderly care'' in Sri Lanka. I think this type of research can have a valuable input to that document
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Dear Gayani,
Thank you for your interest in the study.
This is still ongoing and hoping to complete so soon.. Pleasure to share the information once it's completed.
Regards
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Is it Economical policies
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Political Economy 
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Actually there's a very big difference between "Economical Policies" and "Political Economy".
In my opinion I believe that the "Politics" is "How to perform" a thing like economy while "Economics" is "Management of the resources" like policy.
Economical policies are pointed "how to perform relevant economy" while the Political economies are pointed to the "Exclusive resources which cause to make the others as dependent".
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In the modern information society, the problem is aggravated due to the strengthening of traditional risks and the emergence of new risks to the safety of professional activities. These include the risks of economic, information, psychological, social and didactic nature. In Russia, the damage resulting from the use of new information technologies is commensurate with the annual GDP growth. The problem of ensuring safety is 70% associated with the human factor.
Strengthening risks and the close relationship of the problem of ensuring security with the human factor actualizes the desirability of quality training of personnel for working with new IT. At the same time, it is necessary to take into account the threats that arise in the process of designing such training in conditions of electronic training and practical training. On the one hand, the threat of didactic security increases due to the need to plan effective educational trajectories for training personnel of different levels of competence to meet the specific needs of employers. On the other hand, the threat of social security increases due to the risk of losing work and lack of motivation for staff.
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What kinds of "personnel risks" are you concerned about?  Employment?  Privacy?  What is the source of such risks?  I suspect these issues vary with different situations, in which case different solutions will be needed depending on the specifics involved.
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Recently all over India medical practitioners are facing physical violence by angry mobs who claim to be relatives of patients....I want to know the scenario in other countries....
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In the last few months, Russia has slightly increased the number of aggressive behaviour of patients against doctors and medical staff. In particular, over the past three months there have been 1 fatal for the doctor and about 5 that are associated with causing sustainable damage to health. This is due to the large number of holidays, bringing many out of balance. Unfortunately, many patients do not have the will to occupy themselves with something sensible and positive from the point of view of socially useful work on weekends and public holidays.
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i would like to find that marginalized communities have awareness regarding legal aid system in India. if they have any awareness regarding legal aid system, than they are able to access it.
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okay.. I would like to go through it. 
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I would be thankful for any recommendations of a documentary film on issues related to social security. It may be something showing the transformation of the public systems, or a change of thinking about the role of the state in social policy. It can also be about the economic phenomena of the modern world and their implications for social security or social impact of different models.
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Dear Piotr,
Probably you know ‘I, Daniel Blake’. It’s film, no documentary. See link below.
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Finding a topic for impact of public Debt on economic Growth of Pakistan?
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Please refer to the article:
IMPACT OF DEBT SERVICING AND FISCAL DEFICIT ON ECONOMIC
GROWTH; A CASE STUDY OF PAKISTAN
by
Atif Khan Jadoon, AamirAzeem, Muhammad Toseef Aslam  and Shrafat Ali Sair
at
I think this article will help you to reshape the topic.
Good Luck.
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Traditional European welfare states are becoming not any more so traditional and generous if concerning social security. However it is still possible to talk about European social model in general and certain models of European welfare typology in particular if compare with the other regions in the world. Can You mention some important qualitative differences between Europe and East-Asia, America, Australia-New Zealand, if consider their social security systems?
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Arvydas, I think we should start first with a definition of welfare. (what is welfare, does it include social pensions, etc?).Different EU countries may have different definitions/understandings, even if roughly all EU countries follow either a Bismarkian model or a more universal, 'Beveridge' model...
I am unsure there is an 'Asian' model for 'welfare', if you want to read about some differences between the US & European systems a piece (better than the usual crap related to 'markets',etc provided by the economists-even if these guys could not resist in the conclusion to the 'normative' crappy impulses common to economists( is here:https://www.cairn.info/revue-horizons-strategiques-2006-2-page-51.htm....
In relation to EE, I agree in part with Albert (there is a convergence in raising the pension age, to cut 'entitlements', and to cut the 'undeserving poor'- here we have an ideological convergence) and disagree in part. We are speaking about economic convergence of Eastern Europe with 'Western Europe' for a quarter century and not much happened. Besides, in EE, the inequalities (some are getting much better entitlements than the majority) are built in the constitutional (many exceptions, based on the category to which an employee belong; e.g. police or army officers have generous 'welfare' entitlements, uncommon for the rest of the population) arrangements and very difficult to alter. There won't be any 'convergence' anytime soon, for these provisions.
With respect to EU 'convergence'(for example, the possibility for pensioneers to exercise freedom of movement, etc), the recent record is rather dismayal (because of the economic divergences). And I do not see any EU wide appetite for 'convergence' here (other than that related to the ideological component-cut the undeserving poor).
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There were peaks of development, first - in Asia, later  - in Europe and Northern America, nowadays - again in Asia. Is social policy in general and social security in particular - the only one remaining europocentric phenomenon in the world?
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In terms of financing, the US system can be thought of as more of a publically held private insurance company, in that it is not allowed to deficit spend. (The big difference versus a private company is that the contribution (e.g. tax) is compulsory and also that you don't have a "contract" ensuring no future benefit cuts. On the other hand, private companies can go bankrupt and can't pool the risk as effectively.)
US Social Security contributions (e.g. payroll taxes) are specifically earmarked into a Social Security trust fund to be used in paying Social Security benefits. By Social Security, I mean Old-age Survivors and Disability Insurance, which might not include some European programs Americans would refer to as "welfare" rather than "insurance" (The US system sharply distinguishes the 2, while I think the term "social insurance" globally can include both). Basically, the US system is partially a response to the failure of the private market (including  life insurance companies) to provide economic security prior to 1935. Not sure how private life insurance companies/the private market does in countries without government social insurance circa 2016, but that might be one way to think of this--in the absence of government, can the private market fill the need or will the private market fail?  
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I am carrying out a study on the contribution collection and compliance rates in a compulsory contribution social security organization in Africa. Has anyone carried out a similar study elsewhere? I would need some assistance in the findings so that I can triangulate with mine. Thanks
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1. Europian Commission (2013). SME Performance Review, Annual Report of SME in EU, Bruxelles, http://www.ec.europa.eu/.../sme/.../performance-review/index_e
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The US Social Security system makes a 75 year projection period each year.  Some national schemes use shorter periods, and a few use longer ones.  Lately some US observers have started to question the 75 year period as possibly being too long -- making projections for those who have not yet been born -- and therefore speculative. My interest is, what is the optimal period, and why? Perspectives will be much appreciated.  
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In reflecting on this interesting discussion, I would expand on the comment that the length of time for projections depends on the use of the projections. I would argue that in the United States the tradition that policy reforms designed to restore solvency to Social Security must do so for 75 years creates too high a hurdle, and that reforms that restored solvency for a shorter time period would be easier to enact. On the other hand, if reforms were considering benefit enhancements, then an evaluation of the costs of the reforms over a 75 year period might be appropriate.
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During the 1950's to 1980's Japan had reached its largest social and economic order in both globalization and industrialization which is a large contributing factor to why employment had also reached one of the highest recorded in its history. Of course from the 1980's coming into the early 90's you had global recession and the global market had come to a standstill after the fall of wall street (Beginning with OECD nations), so infant industries that later amassed large number of labourers closed down either temporarily or permanently or merged to form larger companies just to stay alive. Women also stopped producing kids in large numbers during the rise of the industrial era as they were equally involved in many corporations, especially those that operated along an assembly line (which was quite numerous back in the day). Priorities changed and so did domestic social responsibility because workers were very loyal to their employers. And whilst the men and women held strongly to their traditions and values, their social order shifted to adopt a modern way of priority thinking. The Japanese are known to learn and adopt the best from the best. 
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I have been trying to find if anyone has researched the effect of migration patterns on the complexity of social security.  Specifically, if increased propensity for people to have contributions in multiple countries (say in the EU for example) and requiring multiple bilateral or multilateral agreements in order to qualify for age pension is increasing the administrative load on government pension authorities.
Would greatly appreciate any pointers, as I'm not finding much!
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Dear Brigette Metzler,
I hope the following references/ links may be of assistance.
Kind regards,
Paul Chaney
Locke, Catherine; Seeley, Janet; Rao, Nitya (2013) Migration, Reconfigurations of Family Relations and Social (In)Security: an introduction, Third World Quarterly, Volume 34, Number 10, 1 November 2013, pp. 1872-1880. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2013.851933
Sana, Mariano; Massey, Douglas S. (2000) Seeking Social Security: An Alternative Motivation for Mexico-US Migration, International Migration, Volume 38, Number 5, 1 December 2000, pp. 3-24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2435.00125
Melossi, Dario (2005) Security, Social Control, Democracy and Migration within the ‘Constitution’ of the EU, European Law Journal, Volume 11, Number 1, 1 January 2005, pp. 5-21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0386.2005.00246.x
Nielsen, Ingrid; Nyland, Chris; Smyth, Russell; Zhang, Minqiong (2007) Migration and the Right to Social Security: Perceptions of Off-farm Migrants' Rights to Social Insurance in China's Jiangsu Province,  China & World Economy, Volume 15, Number 2, 1 March 2007, pp. 29-43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-124X.2007.00058.x
Schrieder, Gertrud; Knerr, Beatrice (2000) Labour Migration as a Social Security Mechanism for Smallholder Households in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Cameroon, Oxford Development Studies, Volume 28, Number 2, 1 June 2000, pp. 223-236. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/713688309
Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel; MacAuslan, Ian (2007) Migration and Social Protection: Exposing problems of access, Development, Volume 50, Number 4, 1 December 2007, pp. 26-32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.development.1100429
Meier, V. (2000) Time preference, international migration, and social security, Journal of Population Economics, Volume 13, Number 1, 1 January 2000, pp. 127-146.
Dwyer, Peter; Papadimitriou, Dimitris (2006) The Social Security Rights of Older International Migrants in the European Union, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Volume 32, Number 8, 1 November 2006, pp. 1301-1319.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691830600927773
Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel; Koettl, Johannes (2010) Social protection for migrants: The challenges of delivery in the context of changing migration flows, International Social Security Review, Volume 63, Numbers 3-4, 1 July 2010, pp. 115-144. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-246X.2010.01372.x
Taha, Nurulsyahirah; Siegmann, Karin Astrid; Messkoub, Mahmood (2015) How portable is social security for migrant workers? A review of the literature, International Social Security Review, Volume 68, Number 1, 1 January 2015, pp. 95-118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/issr.12061
Casarico, A.; Devillanova, C. (2003) Social security and migration with endogenous skill upgrading, Journal of Public Economics, Volume 87, Number 3, 1 January 2003, pp. 773-797.
Dwyer, Peter (2005) Governance, Forced Migration and Welfare, Social Policy and Administration, Volume 39, Number 6, 1 December 2005, pp. 622-639. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9515.2005.00460.x
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And what is the difference between these terms?
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For some - like International Labour Organization - social security and social protection are synonyms. Social security or social protection programmes are either contributory (social insurance) or non-contributory (universal or categorical social benefits in cash and in kind and means-tested social assistance). But in other organizations and across countries definitions vary. My experience is that it is waste of time to discuss definitions, much more imèportant is to make sure that contributory and non-contributory programmes. some preventing. other alleviating poverty and vulnerability exist and reach as many as possible among those who need protection - that is everybody. Find a good guide through a definitional jungle in ILO "World Social Protection Report 2014-2015" (http://www.ilo.org/gimi/gess/ShowTheme.action?id=3985). Actually - the first edition of this report was entitled - "World Social Security Report". :-)
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I need a recent measure of income inequality by Metropolitan Statistical Area. I found a source for the top 50 MSAs, but I'd like ALL MSAs. More difficult would be a way to find or calculate the means of each quintile and the top 5%. I'm using the IPUMS ACS 2007-11 5-year sample, and I've dropped the missing values (coded 9999999), but I'm not sure if I should include negative HH incomes as well.
I might be open to using a GINI coefficient instead if anyone knows of a recent list by MSA.
Any suggestions? Thanks!
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Dear Rick,
I attach a little spread sheet that shows an algorithm for the calculations. The source of it is listed on top. At the bottom, I explain how to find quintiles. Hope its what you are looking for.
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We're looking to quantify the long-term mortality of a retrospective case series/cohort. What is a suitable way to get these data from the U.S. social security death index? Search online? Request the data set? What resources in terms of time/money should we budget with?
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You can manually look up deaths in the Social Security Death Index if you have the individual's name and social security number (this is free). I also believe you can purchase a file (or access) to do this on a larger scale.
I typically then cross reference the names to obituaries in local newspapers to make sure we didn't miss any
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Social security is based on intergenerational transfers (from active workers to pensioners) and in this way, it replaces the support given from children to parents (upward transfers) within the family.  What were the main features of the family structure, dependency rates, fertility, life expectancy for men and women and other characteristics when Germany implemented its social security programs led by Bismarck?
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Maria,
After decades of arguing over "which came first", some demographers (at least) are settling into the assumption that this relationship (like most socioeconomic relationships that are associated with the demographic transition and the accompanying age-structural transition) is a "chicken-and-egg" story (a big feedback loop, or several of them between various levels of analysis).  
Here's my narrative: (1) To produce a pay-as-you-go (PYG) retirement system, the state requires a sizable formal sector and payroll taxes, and/or substantial taxes on natural resource production (oil/minerals) -- thus the "industrialization came first" argument.
However, (2) fertility decline (which will ultimately drive down the support ratio and weaken "extended family" relationships) pushes the low-fertility middle class towards supporting this PYG tax burden (thus, didn't the initiation of fertility decline come first?).
A third element: (3) Having a high worker:retiree ratio (support ratio) makes it easy to start the PYG system (to "grandfather in" the retiring generation).  So, it's advantageous to start once (1) and (2) are in place, but before the age-structure matures (median age 35+). 
Chile was at this "demographic spot" -- its TFR decline was well underway (TFR about 2.7 in 1980, and thus the contraceptive prevalence rate was probably above 50% by then), but it still experienced a youthful age-structure (a median age of about 22.6 in 1980, somewhat like Syria today).  [UN Pop. Div. estimates, the 2012 Revision]
The next chapter: (4) Once population momentum has been depleted by sustained near-replacement TFR (or below), there is fiscal pressure to move from PYG systems to a broader set of defined contribution instruments, such as a partially flexible tax-sheltered option (in the US, the tax-deductable IRA system), and perhaps a "forced savings/investment" that the owner can move between qualified options.  These are the "3 pillars" that feature in some of the recommendations concerning age-structure and retirement.  
Of course, all of this is debatable ... this is just my (demographically focused) understanding the evolution of state social security systems. 
Richard Cincotta
The Stimson Center, Washington, DC. 
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I would like to ask about the reimbursement policies in your countries for the interventional procedures like peripheral arterial, venous, EVAR, etc. What are the conditions/procedures required by the social security and/or private security companies and approximate amounts of payment?
Do they account for lower/cheaper numbers compared to surgical counterparts?
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In the U.S., the actual cost for a hospital to provide interventional procedures is less than open surgical procedure (vascular surgery) because the price of the endovascular ("minimally invasive") interventional equipment is relatively low and fewer hospital inpatient days or Length-of-Stay (LOS) is much shorter than open surgery.  Therefore the health insurance companies and the government socialized insurance programs (Medicare for elderly and Medicaid for low income) pay the hospitals less for the interventional procedures.  Generally these procedures are better for the patients (less morbidity and mortality and equally effective outcomes) and are considered more "cost-effective" than the open surgical procedures. Some patients are not candidates for interventional procedures and must undergo open surgical procedures.  Hospitals get paid more for these procedures (based on resource cost of providing open surgical operations and longer LOS) and the hospital makes a better profit margin also.  The payment to physician/surgeon is not much different for interventional vs open surgical procedures because the amount of time the physician/surgeon spends in the evaluation/procedure/postop care is about the same.  
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I'm working on self-employed professionals and social security in Germany. I'm interested in how self-employed entrepreneurs make a living and how they think about social security (unemployment insurance, pension insurance, health insurance). Do you know any literature or research on self-employed professionals and social security in Europe (especially qualitative, ethnographic or biographical research)? Thanks in advance!
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sorry! I am of no help! all the best
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Many believe that the welfare state is the phenomena of the past history in the West and that globalization and liberalism during the last 30 years have tremendously changed the world. This is one of the reasons why developing countries are cautious about wide and deep implementation of such welfare elements as state social security measures. What is your view about the present and future of the welfare state? 
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Hello dear colleagues. This is a very interesting discussion. Concerning the future of the welfare states, I think there is much ideology behind the current public and political debates. If we consider the development of political parties in Europe, we see some important parallels to the welfare state developments. In the 1990s, after the fall of the iron curtain, the parties went more and more to the centre  and many European politicians from all political couleurs started to claim the social systems to be too expensive. It was a time when the ideological cleavages between social democrats, conservatives and liberals seemed to dissolve in terms of economy. The arguments for austerity went hand in hand with the rise of neoliberalism and globalisation (WTO, etc). And it also went hand in hand with a rise of the gap between the rich and the poor in Western Europe. Only in the last years, there is a kind of ideological comeback of political discourse which is reflected in the critiques of the neoliberal markets and in the rise of anti-system parties from the left and the right - both criticising this gap with similar arguments but with different solutions (internationalist solutions by most left parties like Syriza; nationalist solutions by the right like Front National etc.) The future of the welfare state, in my opinion, depends on the capacity of supranational institutions to reduce the gap and to suprantionalize the welfare state.
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The Nordic model is described as a system of competitive capitalism combined with a large public sector. There has been some criticism against the model suggesting that it brings inefficiency and will not be able to sustain growth in long run. What is your viewpoint on this?
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Dear @Harshita, the Scandinavian model for social security is efficient and  worths emulating in India; however, it is very costly and this has to be taken into consideration.
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The labour market in Europe is becoming flexible and open, but social security is still closed in national boundaries. Less-developed countries are suffering because of emigration of the labour force and losing employees to more-developed countries. Rising costs for social security per capita in less-developed countries undermine the national business. At the same time social security in less-developed countries suffers because of a lack of resources. How can this dangerous vicious cycle be changed?
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Some of you say that social security is not confined to national boundaries, because we can cover things across boundaries etc. But what the question talks about is other social support in my opinion. It is financial transfers between Eu countries, such as unemployment benefits, social assistance for housing, etc. The lack of a strong 'social' transfers to poorer countries accelerates the migration to richer countries. No budget equalisation mechanism in other words.
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See above
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Thank you very much. Do you know if there are other documents extending the package of social risks? For example, I saw the article about obsolting professional competence...
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Is there anyone working with poverty related topic "importance of social security serving as important risk coping mechanism of households during shocks such as natural disaster". Social security is an important source of risk coping mechanism in absence of insurance and formal loans. Some of the social security is assistance from relatives and friends in the form of informal loan, gifts, remittance, etc.
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Dear Reshmi,
Sounds like the focus is private transfers first, maybe you want to look at
Mozumder, Pallab, et al. "Private transfers to cope with a natural disaster: evidence from Bangladesh." Environment and Development Economics 14.2 (2009): 187-210.
Heltberg, Rasmus, Paul Bennett Siegel, and Steen Lau Jorgensen. "Addressing human vulnerability to climate change: toward a ‘no-regrets’ approach." Global Environmental Change 19.1 (2009): 89-99.
Holzmann, Robert, and Steen Jørgensen. "Social Risk Management: A new conceptual framework for Social Protection, and beyond." International Tax and Public Finance 8.4 (2001): 529-556.
That was the work that Francie Lund and I responded to
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Del Ninno, Carlo. "Role of cash transfers and other Social Safety Nets after a disaster." Workshop on Building Resilient Communities: Risk management and responses to natural disasters. June. Presentation. Bangkok. http://web. worldbank. org/
Good luck!
Smita
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I am working on a paper looking at the feasibility and implication of legalising prostitution in India. A popular argument 'for' this move is one that states that legalising would ensure that these women are given a chance to become a part of mainstream society and hence ensuring their welfare becomes easier. However does this hold true in the Indian context?
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As an independent woman, I see the legalization of prostitution as an opportunity to increase my financial means and my social standing. It may even be a means to feed my child who would , otherwise go hungry. In cases of survival, I believe that a woman should be able to sell her only asset without legal reprisal. However,i believe that women suffer emotionally, and perhaps spiritually when the women are DEPENDANT on giving their most sacred parts to people who dont care about them, for financial gain. Morality cannot be effectively legislated, and the law rarely works on a case by case basis. For this reason, i would support the legalization of sex sales between consenting adults in any country.
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Education is a very important sector that is the target of all the power groups (multinational companies these days) because such control will enable them to establish control on the total economy of a country. This is so because education is a process by which knowledge gets transferred to a person or a group. Beside mental development education provides social security for the poor. If education can be controlled, the relevant pedagogy may also be tailored in such a manner that the poor people may be exploited. Therefore sovereignty related to education is a must for a nation. My question is “should a developing country allow universities from the developed countries to establish branches in their territory?” Because if it is allowed then this may put higher education at risk which in turn would jeopardize the industrial development of the developing country. Also should the multinational/foreign companies be allowed to launch control on the national education policy from outside even in the name of consultancy?
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I don't think that allowing Universities from developed countries should be viewed with so much of negativism. Education is a universal need, if we do not allow free flow of knowledge between countries,I think we would be denying ourselves to opportunity to learn from the experiences of others. However, some controls and checks are needed to ensure that these institutions do not act just as a profit centers only, but impart quality education and follow the local rules and regulations too. This is true for higher education, because that is where the developing countries lack the most. Globalization is a phenomenon there to stay, so if we keep ourselves out of the knowledge centers, we would be denying our youth the opportunity to get the best of education available. Partnerships between existing institutions of higher learning of developed and developing countries is one way to do this.
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Basic education serves different purposes to different group of people. For someone it helps mental developments whereas for the poor it is needed for their security. For the second group the time they can spend on education is very much limited. On the other hand for security reasons within this period they must learn how to read and write at least one language and also some basic arithmetic so that they may not be exploited. Under this constraint my question is should there be two different forms of primary education? I am not also very sure about this.
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Yes, by the word security I mean the social security. There are instances that some person makes a fake document, get the finger print of an illiterate farmer on that such that the document can be used to prove that the farmer's land was sold to the person long before. This way an illiterate poor can easily be deprived and exploited. There are many other instances like this. Therefore I think if we can at least teach them how to read and write one language and some basic arithmetic this type of problem may be reduced.