۸۰/۵۰۰۰ Social Development Social Welfare Globalization Family abuse Job Satisfaction social participation
Leili Niakan; Narges Akbarpour-Roshan
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A proper and accurate analysis of a country's pension system and its comparative examination with other countries’ are important components of policy analysis and reform design. Although countries have significant economic, social, cultural, and political differences, and it is not possible to ...
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A proper and accurate analysis of a country's pension system and its comparative examination with other countries’ are important components of policy analysis and reform design. Although countries have significant economic, social, cultural, and political differences, and it is not possible to propose a unified model for all countries’ pension systems, valuable practical lessons can be learned from reviewing the experiences of countries around the world. In this regard, this study aims to extract policy recommendations for Iran by examining the experiences of six countries, including countries with economic similarities to Iran (Turkey, Russia, and India) and countries with successful social security systems (Netherlands, UK, and Germany). For this purpose, based on the most important published documents and information, selected countries were analyzed and compared in seven key areas, including their economic and labor market variables, demographic variables, social protection systems, global ranking of pension systems, characteristics and parameters of public pension schemes, generosity of pension programs, and reforms in the pension system. The findings of this research showed that Iran's pension system is much far from the ideal situation and therefore needs some essential reforms. Based on this, the article provides recommendations in three areas of policies regarding the macro environment, social protection system, and pension funds.
bahareh hagihosseni; ezatallah samaram
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In this article, the reformist discourse of Khatami's Administration is analyzed and the status of poverty alleviation is designated. The authors presume that discourses construct realities, so discourse analysis is important for tracing the roots of any phenomena. Therefore, the authors have examined ...
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In this article, the reformist discourse of Khatami's Administration is analyzed and the status of poverty alleviation is designated. The authors presume that discourses construct realities, so discourse analysis is important for tracing the roots of any phenomena. Therefore, the authors have examined the related texts (including the selected speeches and development plans) by using Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory and Fairclaugh's Critical Discourse Analysis. Findings indicate that in the reformist discourse of Khatami's Administration, "political development" was the master signifier and other signifiers, including poverty alleviation, gained their final meaning as the result of subjection to it. In other words, poverty alleviation was postponed until the achievement of political development. According to the theoretical findings, the reformist discourse was constituted by articulating the signifiers of liberalism discourse and the Islamic Revolution meta-discourse. As poverty alleviation is not the master signifier in liberalism -it is in fact a by-product of political and economic development- the reality which is produced by this discourse does not pay attention to poverty alleviation as a main issue and marginalizes it.
