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Kosovo: Technical Assistance Report-Enhancing Social Protection Cash Benefits

May 17, 2016

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Kosovo: Technical Assistance Report-Enhancing Social Protection Cash Benefits, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2016) accessed October 13, 2024

Summary

This paper assesses the sustainability of the public pension system, discusses recent and proposed changes to veterans’ benefits, and reviews the effectiveness of social assistance in Kosovo. The social transfer programs created in the wake of Kosovo’s independence are narrower in scope than similar programs in other European emerging economies. Poverty, the main policy challenge of the country, can be addressed through employment-friendly economic growth and pro-poor social spending. Kosovo’s highly inequitable current system of social cash transfer represents a departure from the fiscally sustainable and conceptually homogenous structure of the early 2000s.

Subject: Aging, Expenditure, Income, Labor, National accounts, Pension spending, Pensions, Population and demographics, Social protection spending

Keywords: Age pension, Aging, Benefit differentiation, Benefit level, Cash benefit scheme, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, CR, Europe, Income, ISCR, Labor market, Pension benefit, Pension spending, Pensions, Social protection spending

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    43

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2016/123

  • Stock No:

    1UVKEA2016003

  • ISBN:

    9781484353608

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685