{"id":6880,"date":"2025-07-11T10:58:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/reform-proposal-kosovos-social-protection-system\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T10:58:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:58:19","slug":"reform-proposal-kosovos-social-protection-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/en\/reform-proposal-kosovos-social-protection-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform Proposal: Kosovo\u2019s Social Protection System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The launch of regular and unconditional Universal Basic Income, the establishment of Kosovo\u2019s Social Insurance, the reorganization and expansion of universal public services, as well as increasing the progressivity of personal income taxation are some of the concrete actions proposed yesterday in Prishtina by Dr. Artan Mustafa during the roundtable organized by the Institute for Social Policy Musine Kokalari, as part of the presentation of his paper titled: \u201cKosovo\u2019s Social Protection System: Reform Proposal Toward a More Equal, Inclusive, and Sustainable Citizenship.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>In this document, which serves as a policy proposal, Dr. Mustafa argued that Kosovo remains on a trajectory of deep social inequality, with mass emigration emerging as the most visible manifestation of this crisis.<\/p>\n\n<p>Read the full document here:<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><\/div>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>In his monumental book The Social Contract, Rousseau states that the worst government is the one \u201cunder which a people diminishes and dwindles.\u201d Kosovo is in urgent need of a renewed agreement on the obligations and shared benefits of citizenship \u2014 a more sustainable social contract \u2014 in the face of the threat this social crisis poses to citizenship itself, writes Mustafa.<\/p>\n\n<p>Considering the author&#8217;s proposal as useful, renowned economist Mr. Edison Jakurti, as part of the panel, raised the discussion on the importance of examining the impact of Universal Basic Income on the reservation wage and the proposed measures in relation to remittances.<\/p>\n\n<p>Present at the event, various members of trade unions, non-governmental organizations, social work centers, members of the Kosovo Parliament, and many others engaged in discussion on the presented proposals and the possibilities for transforming social policies in Kosovo.<\/p>\n\n<p>The project that enabled this publication is supported by the Swedish Embassy in Kosovo and the Community Development Fund through the Humanrightivism framework.<\/p>\n\n<p>February 22, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click below to read the full document: Reform Proposal: Kosovo\u2019s Social Protection System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-labor-right-and-advocacy-en","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6881,"href":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6880\/revisions\/6881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musineinstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}