Full Description
The book offers a comprehensive overview of social security in the Balkan states. Social security is presented from a broad perspective as a mechanism that addresses human needs, provides protection against social risks, reduces social tensions and secures peace. Various sectors of social policy, pension systems, health care systems, disability insurance, labor policy as well as social risks, such as poverty and unemployment have been analyzed from historical, economic, political, sociological and security perspective. The book also offers recommendations for improving the level of social security in the region.
Contributors are: Dritero Arifi, Ngadhnjim Brovina, Pëllumb Çollaku, Dorota Domalewska, Besnik Fetahu, Remzije Istrefi, Maja Jandrić, Gordana Matković, Ruzhdi Morina, Artan Mustafa, Katarina Stanić, and Marzena Żakowska.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Abstracts
Serbia and Kosovo EU Integration and the Development of the Social Security Systems
Marzena Żakowska
part 1
Social Security in Serbia
1 Overview of Social Protection in Serbia Current Perspective and Challenges
Katarina Stanić and Gordana Matković
2 The Pension System in Serbia Developments, Current State and Challenges
Katarina Stanić
3 Decentralization of Social Care Services in Serbia
Gordana Matković
4 Unemployment in Serbia Characteristics and Challenges
Maja Jandrić and Marzena Żakowska
part 2
Social Security in Kosovo
5 The Renegotiation of Social Policy in Kosovo Gradual Institutional Change since Independence
Artan Mustafa and Pëllumb Çollaku
6 Developments and Challenges in the Kosovo Pension System
Remzije Istrefi and Ruzhdi Morina
7 Buying Social Peace Lessons from Kosovo
Besnik Fetahu and Marzena Żakowska
8 Kosovo Society Coexistence, Challenges and Opportunities
Dritero Arifi and Ngadhnjim Brovina
part 3
Conclusion
9 Social Security in the Balkans Lessons and Recommendations
Marzena Żakowska and Dorota Domalewska
Index
