Kosovo Social Protection and Health Expenditure Note

doi:10.1596/32094

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Kosovo Social Protection and Health Expenditure Note

dc.contributor.author	World Bank Group
dc.date.accessioned	2019-07-16T15:58:09Z
dc.date.available	2019-07-16T15:58:09Z
dc.date.issued	2018-05
dc.description.abstract	Kosovo is one of the poorest countries in Europe, and a growing proportion of the population is at risk for social exclusion and long-term poverty. Overall spending on social protection has increased significantly over recent years, largely because of increases in pensions and war related benefits resulting in increased fiscal pressure. Pensions are a mechanism to substitute income due to a permanent loss of income generating capacity, such as old age or disability and should not be used as a compensatory measure for other reasons. For this reason, in the early 2000s and faced with the impossibility of using contributory pension records to pay pensions, a universal basic pension was introduced in Kosovo.To contain the expansion of pension spending going forward, the government must refrain from introducing new benefits, disallow increasing benefit levels for all but the basic pensions, and pro-rate existing benefits above basic pension levels contingent on funding availability. The expansion of programs targeted at specific population groups have crowded out spending of the social assistance targeted to the poor, which is both low and declining. Increasing programs' coverage and benefit levels and prioritizing the most disadvantaged are key for increasing the effectiveness and equity of social assistance. Public investments in employment promotion and active labor market programs are limited and insufficient to meet Kosovo's labor market challenges. Given that low levels of health spending, including on drugs, is a leading cause of poverty, the social health insurance reform should not only work to improve health outcomes but also to improve financial risk protection, especially for the poor.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/190411561720305500/Kosovo-Social-Protection-and-Health-Expenditure-Note
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/32094
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/32094
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	SOCIAL PROTECTION
dc.subject	SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
dc.subject	PENSIONS
dc.subject	LABOR POLICY
dc.subject	EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM
dc.subject	HEALTH INSURANCE
dc.subject	HEALTH SPENDING
dc.title	Kosovo Social Protection and Health Expenditure Note	en
dc.type	Report	en
dc.type	Rapport	fr
dc.type	Informe	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	Kosovo Social Protection and Health Expenditure Note
okr.date.disclosure	2019-06-28
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work::Other Social Protection Study
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/190411561720305500/Kosovo-Social-Protection-and-Health-Expenditure-Note
okr.guid	190411561720305500
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/32094
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okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	31192950
okr.identifier.report	125060
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okr.language.supported	en
okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/190411561720305500/pdf/Kosovo-Social-Protection-and-Health-Expenditure-Note.pdf	en
okr.region.administrative	Europe and Central Asia
okr.region.country	Kosovo
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Access of Poor to Social Services
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Services & Transfers to Poor
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Disability
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Pensions & Retirement Systems
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Social Funds and Pensions
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Social Protections & Assistance
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Health Insurance
okr.unit	Europe and Central Asia 3 (GMTE3)