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Kosovo: Technical Assistance Report-Enhancing Social Protection Cash Benefits
Author:
International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept.
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Series:
IMF Staff Country Reports
Volume/Issue:
Volume 2016: Issue 123
Language:
English
Publication Date:
17 May 2016
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484353608.002
ISBN:
9781484353608
ISSN:
1934-7685
Pages:
43
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; benefit level; labor market; cash benefit scheme; age pension; benefit differentiation; pension benefit; Pensions; Pension spending; Aging; Income; Social protection spending; Central and Eastern Europe; Central Asia; Europe
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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.
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