Subject(s): Public welfare administration. -- Welfare state. -- Social security in Finance. -- Social protection and social transfers : Informal / formal transfer system, income effects of national social transfer systems, income inequality, poverty, formal social protection -- Size of the welfare state- trends, patterns and determinants of social expenditure : Social expenditure ratio- expenditure trends and patterns, regional expenditure trends, industrialized countries, developing countries, developmental patterns, structural patterns, factor analysis of determinants of national social expenditure -- Social protection and economy : Economic taxonomies of national social protection systems, exploring the theories - extensive welfare states affect economic performance, mechanisms of interaction between welfare state and economic performance, economic instruments in governance of social transfers, welfare state in future -- Public finance nexus and resource mobilization strategies : Social protection in national and government accounts, financial links between social protection schemes and government accounts, effects of social protection financing on public deficits and debt, social protection financing and public financing strategies, mobilizing resources for social protection sector, developing national resource mobilization strategy -- Financing techniques : Financing systems- definition, parameters and main applications, financing health care benefits, financing social security pensions, social assistance, universal minimum income, international instruments -- Investing social protection reserves : Financial markets, nature and institutional management of social security reserves, basic investment principles, criteria of asset management in practice, analytical tools, investment strategies, investment problems in countries with underdeveloped financial markets, pension funds or financial markets -- Financial governance : Basic legal framework and instruments of financial governance, state operated systems, social insurance scheme, financial market regulations, hierarchy of quantitative governance instruments, planning instruments, analytical and performance- monitoring instruments -- HIV/AIDS- managing the financial consequences of pandemic in a developing country context : Presentation of Afroland, demographic impact, economic impact, impact of HIV/AIDS on social protection programs, social budget, impact of HIV/AIDS on government budget -- Migration and higher labor/ labour force participation as factors in social protection financing- policy choice in ageing societies : Labor force and economic projections, effects on pension scheme financing -- Number cruncher's survival kit : Basic budgeting techniques, calculation of balance and reserves, calculation of contribution rates -- Financial markets - organization and main instruments