Urban And Rural Areas, Rural Social Old-age Security: Institutional Choice And Government Accountability

Farmers'old-age income support is a significant problem. China is now in the transfer process from family-support to social pension security for them. Obviously our government and academe have recognized the necessity and significance of establishing and improving farmers'old-age support system, however, how to establish the formal pension system and what government responsibility is are still questions eager to resolve in special environment with Chinese characteristics.Encircling on the line of establishing and improving farmers'pension system, the dissertation tries to answer the questions as follows: why China has not established the formal old-age support system in rural areas until now, which system we wish to establish and how to achieve mandatory institutional changes. Based on the successful experience of eastern China and developed countries, and combined with the tendency of coordinating development in urban and rural areas, the author proves the multi-level farmers'pension security frame which is helpful for poverty reduction,income distribution and consumption smoothing. Then, the author analyses key factors of institutional operation, path of institutional changes and urban-rural integration.This dissertation includes nine chapters, Chapter 1 is an introduction, which mainly introduces research background, purpose, core concepts, key questions, and makes a comprehensive summary of research. Chapter 2, in this part the author states the general theories of social security development, social protection,"multi-pillar"model of old-age support and institutional changes, all of above theories mainly illuminate the selection reasons of farmers'pension security, the conditions of institutional changes, and theoretical frame of establishing farmers'old-age systems in new relations between farmer and state.Chapter 3 and 4 mainly focus on the analysis of current situation of China farmers'old -age support, It explains the reasons why formal farmers'pension security has not been established in China. Further, the author summarizes the successful experience in selected pilots, Beijing, Suzhou of Jiangsu province, Jiaxing of Zhejiang province, Baoji of Shanxi province. Chapter 5 gives a summary review on experiences of farmer pensions security in some developed and developing countries. Chapter 6, according to the experience and theory, the author raises the multi-level frames of pension security covering most of Chinese farmers, which includes non-contributory pension, pension insurance and social assistance for old-age with individual function.Chapter 7 points out key factors affecting institutional operation, those are, financial support, administrative system and non-financial fund investment. Chapter 8 elaborates the measures for the implementation of farmer pension security. Moreover, the end of this part discusses how to accelerate the development of farmer old-aged support service, and integration of urban and rural pension system. Chapter 9 is the conclusion of this dissertation. Also, the author sets forth the ways of development of rural and urban pension system.