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Institute for Workplace Studies                 Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
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New York, NY 10016                      Director, IWS News Bureau
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Social Security Programs Throughout the World: Asia and the Pacific, 2004
(released March 2005)
http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/ssptw/2004-2005/asia/index.html
[Scroll down to find individual countries in PDF]
or
http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/ssptw/2004-2005/asia/ssptw04asia-1.pdf
[full-text, 211 pages]

[excerpt]
This second issue in the current four-volume series of Social Security Programs Throughout the
World reports on the countries of Asia and the Pacific. The combined findings of this series,
which also includes volumes on Europe, Africa, and the Americas, are published at 6-month
intervals over a 2-year period. Each volume highlights features of social security programs in the
particular region.

The information contained in these volumes is crucial to our efforts, and those of researchers
in other countries, to review different ways of approaching social security challenges that will
enable us to adapt our social security systems to the evolving needs of individuals, households,
and families. These efforts are particularly important as each nation faces major demographic
changes, especially the increasing number of aged persons, as well as economic and fiscal issues.

Social Security Programs Throughout the World is the product of a cooperative effort
between the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the International Social Security
Association (ISSA). Founded in 1927, the ISSA is a nonprofit organization bringing together
institutions and administrative bodies from countries throughout the world. The ISSA deals with
all forms of compulsory social protection that by legislation or national practice are an integral
part of a country's social security system.
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