Kosovo: Technical Assistance Report-Enhancing Social Protection Cash Benefits

International Monetary Fund

No 2016/123, IMF Staff Country Reports from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: 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.

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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43
Date: 2016-05-17
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