TY - BOOK ID - 84783932 TI - Kosovo : Technical Assistance Report-Enhancing Social Protection Cash Benefits. PY - 2016 SN - 1484354699 1484355202 1484353978 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Labor KW - Macroeconomics KW - Public Finance KW - Demography KW - Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits KW - Private Pensions KW - Social Security and Public Pensions KW - Economics of the Elderly KW - Economics of the Handicapped KW - Non-labor Market Discrimination KW - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution KW - Labor Economics: General KW - National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs KW - Pensions KW - Population & demography KW - Labour KW - income economics KW - Public finance & taxation KW - Pension spending KW - Aging KW - Income KW - Expenditure KW - Population and demographics KW - National accounts KW - Social protection spending KW - Population aging KW - Labor economics KW - Expenditures, Public KW - Kosovo, Republic of KW - Income economics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84783932 AB - 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. ER -