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A global perspective on social security programmes for disabled people
- Authors:
- DIXON John, HYDE Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(5), August 2000, pp.709-730.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
By the mid-1990s, 163 countries had statutory general disability programmes. Most have adopted social insurance as their primary policy instrument, which restricts coverage to those in paid formal employment, make benefit eligibility dependent upon the satisfying of specific minimum contribution period requirements and provides earnings-related pensions. Many countries also provide supplementary and special need benefits. Programme funding comes overwhelmingly from employer and employee contributions, with a majority of countries providing government subsidies. Using a methodology that assesses national statutory social security intensions, ranking of these disability programmes reveals that Australia has the best designed one.