Institutions, transformations, and outcomes: Poverty in Kosovo over time
Session
Political Science
Description
This paper examines the main social policy institutions in Kosovo and their transformation from socialism to liberalism-residualism over the past decades, including labour policy, pensions, health insurance and care, social protection, and their financing (taxation). Using Household Budget Survey (HBS) data, it focuses on analysing the institutions’ outcomes on alleviating income poverty. It is argued that in the specific context of Kosovo, post-war liberal, residual institutions were more capable to reduce poverty than socialism, despite remaining extensive poverty and rising poverty in the recent years. Although the paper is primarily interested on institutions and outcomes, relevant arguments are made in terms of what caused them including international organisations, institutional layering, electoral voting etc.
Keywords:
Poverty, socialism, liberalism-residualism, international organisations
Session Chair
Shqipe Mjekiqi
Session Co-Chair
Olli E. Kangas & Vjollca Krasniqi
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-437-69-1
Location
Pristina, Kosovo
Start Date
27-10-2018 9:00 AM
End Date
27-10-2018 10:30 AM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2018.395
Recommended Citation
Mustafa, Artan, "Institutions, transformations, and outcomes: Poverty in Kosovo over time" (2018). UBT International Conference. 395.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2018/all-events/395
Institutions, transformations, and outcomes: Poverty in Kosovo over time
Pristina, Kosovo
This paper examines the main social policy institutions in Kosovo and their transformation from socialism to liberalism-residualism over the past decades, including labour policy, pensions, health insurance and care, social protection, and their financing (taxation). Using Household Budget Survey (HBS) data, it focuses on analysing the institutions’ outcomes on alleviating income poverty. It is argued that in the specific context of Kosovo, post-war liberal, residual institutions were more capable to reduce poverty than socialism, despite remaining extensive poverty and rising poverty in the recent years. Although the paper is primarily interested on institutions and outcomes, relevant arguments are made in terms of what caused them including international organisations, institutional layering, electoral voting etc.