社会保障问题是关系到一个国家的国计民生、社会稳定的大问题。多少年来一直受到各国政府的重视。由于国情不同,经济发展水平参差不齐,各国社会保障的内容、程度和范围也不尽相同。一些国家已建立起一套比较完善、行之有效的社会保障体系,一些国家在现有的基础上正对这一体系加以改革,使之趋于完善、合理。为便于读者了解这方面的情况,今由本刊驻美国、瑞典、韩国和智利的特约记者分别介绍上述国家在社会保障某些方面的做法、存在的问题以及进行改革的原因,对我国目前正在这一领域进行的改革或许会有所启迪。 The issue of social security is a major issue that affects the national economy and the people’s livelihood and social stability in a country. How many years have been the attention of all governments. Due to the different national conditions and the uneven level of economic development, the content, extent and scope of social security in various countries are also different. Some countries have established a relatively complete and effective social security system. Some countries are now reforming the system on the existing basis to make it more perfect and reasonable. In order to facilitate readers’ understanding of this issue, special correspondents from this press in the United States, Sweden, South Korea and Chile separately introduce the above-mentioned practices, existing problems and reasons for the reform in some aspects of social security in the above countries. The reforms in this area may inspire them.