ABSTRACT
World-wide, developments in social security and the impact they make on the society at large reflect, more or less emphatically, the detailed and constantly evolving issues brought to light by singie-country studies. Social security, the most important institution world-wide, relies heavily on the social insurance — the 'earned right' approach. The most serious current problems that require policy and planning decisions, Perrin finds, arise out of the need to reexamine social security's relationship to the economy, to society and to the level of development. In some countries, social security and welfare services are integrated. This is in order to endow cash benefits with the ability to improve social adaptation thereby helping beneficiaries to use income supports to greatest advantage. Several studies provide a worldwide panorama for the purpose of shedding light on trends in the evolution of social security at the international level.
