Kosovo: Technical Assistance Report-Enhancing Social Protection Cash Benefits
IMF Staff Country Reports, May 17, 2016
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- Published: May 17, 2016
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484353608.002
Assessment of public pension system sustainability
- The paper assesses the sustainability of the public pension system.
- The current system is contrasted with the "fiscally sustainable and conceptually homogenous structure of the early 2000s."
- Key subject tags include: Pension spending, Pensions, Aging, Population and demographics.
Veterans’ benefits: recent and proposed changes
- The paper discusses recent and proposed changes to veterans’ benefits.
- Veterans’ benefits are considered within the broader review of cash transfer programs and their fiscal implications.
Effectiveness of social assistance and social transfer programs
- The paper reviews the effectiveness of social assistance in Kosovo.
- Finding: The social transfer programs created in the wake of Kosovo’s independence are narrower in scope than similar programs in other European emerging economies.
- Finding: Kosovo’s current system of social cash transfer is described as "highly inequitable."
Poverty, growth, and policy directions
- Principal policy challenge identified: Poverty.
- Policy recommendations and avenues:
- Address poverty through employment-friendly economic growth.
- Complement growth with pro-poor social spending.
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- _cr16123 — Preface and Executive Summary