Preface

Nicholas Lardy

Introduction

Jason Z. Yin

Shuanglin Lin

David F. Gates

Part 1 The Choice of Old-Age Security System

Social Security Pension Reform in China

Martin Feldstein

Chinese Social Insurance Reform: Personal Security and Economic Growth

Henry J. Aaron

Establish a Social Security System with Chinese Features

Li Tie Ying

The Rational Choice of Social Security System in China

Zheng Gongcheng

The Effect of an Expansion of the Pay-AS-You-Go Social Security System in China

Shuanglin Lin

The Efficiency and Distribution Effects of China's Pension Reform

Dianqing Xu

Zhi Wang

Yan Wang

Efficiency and the Mechanism for Funding and Provision of Social Security in China

Haizheng Li

Janusz R. Mrozek

Demographic Underpinnings of China's Old-Age Pension Reform

Loraine A. West

Part 2 Social Security Funds Management and Transitional Issues

Privatizing the Management: A Choice for the Pension System in China

Jason Z. Yin

Pension Fund Management and China's Financial Sector

Anjali Kumar

Yan Wang

New Models for Old Age Security---and How Can They Be Applied in China?

Estelle James

Some Suggestions from the U.S. Experience on How to Establish a Social Protection System with Chinese Characteristics

George S-F Chu

Shunfeng Song

Dasong Deng

Part 3 Health Care Reforms, Rural Social Security, and Social Welfare

Social Security for the Rural Elderly in China

D. Gale Johnson

Social Welfare and Transition to a Market Economy in China

Athar Hussain

Chinese Rural Social Security and Land Holding

Yaohui Zhao

James G. Wen

Conflicts Between Society's Desires and Individual Responsibility: Financing Issues in China's Urban Health Insurance Reform

Wei Yu

Financing Health Care in Developing Economies: Simulations for China

Ake Blomqvist

Susheng Wang

Lijing Zhu

Growth and Security Under Welfare-Corporate Capitalism and Market Socialism

Myron J. Gordon

Part 4 Social Security Reform in the World: Lessons for China

The Structural Pension Reform in Latin America: Comparative Description and Evaluation of Performance, Testing of Assumptions, and Lessons

Carmelo Mesa-Lago

Social Security Reforms in Taiwan

Shengcheng Hu

Vietnams Old Age Security System: Recent Transformations and Their Relevance for Upcoming Changes in China

Daniel Goodkind

Truong Si Anh

Bui The Cuong

Choice of Social Security Systems: Singapore's Experience

Ding Lu

From the Public Pension System to the Private Pension System: What China Could Learn from Other Countries' Experiences

Ellen Ying Yan

Pension Reform in Hungary

Antal Deutsch

Index