Kosovo Human Development Report 2010 - UNDP Kosovo - United ...
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The overlap between those excluded<br />
from factor markets and those excluded<br />
from basic goods and services<br />
is surprisingly small: of the total 7.6 percent<br />
of households excluded from all<br />
factor markets, more than half (about<br />
60 percent) are able to meet their<br />
critical needs. This discrepancy can<br />
be explained by the fact that around<br />
20 percent of households receive remittances<br />
43 and around 8 percent of<br />
households receive social protection<br />
transfers.<br />
FIGURe<br />
2.2<br />
4.6%<br />
Proportion of<br />
households excluded<br />
only from factor<br />
markets<br />
In <strong>Kosovo</strong>, the role of social protection<br />
transfers is limited to improving<br />
the welfare of the population 44 because<br />
the current social protection system 45 is<br />
characterised by very limited benefits 46<br />
and low coverage of the poor. 47 However,<br />
studies have shown that migration<br />
and remittances have been the most effective<br />
mechanism for reducing the poverty<br />
of recipient families. 48<br />
(iii) Drivers of exclusion: the three primary<br />
drivers of the exclusion mecha-<br />
38 | KOSOVO HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT <strong>2010</strong><br />
3%<br />
nism in <strong>Kosovo</strong> are joblessness, low<br />
productivity in agriculture sector and<br />
the weak social protection sysem.<br />
Joblessness: in the previous sub<br />
sections we have seen how a lack of<br />
jobs leads to exclusion from essential<br />
and mainstream economic processes.<br />
Joblessness may also lead to weakening<br />
of motivation and make the long-term<br />
unemployed even more passive. Youth<br />
unemployment can take a particularly<br />
high toll, leading to the long-run loss of<br />
Intersection between those that are excluded from factor markets and those<br />
excluded from basic goods and services<br />
18.2%<br />
Proportion of<br />
households excluded only<br />
from basic goods<br />
and services<br />
self-esteem. Unemployment can weaken<br />
family harmony and coherence and<br />
increase gender divisions.<br />
In the previous sections we have<br />
also seen that employment alone does<br />
If you are over 40, it is very difficult<br />
to get a steady job therefore I have to<br />
take more seasonal and temporary<br />
jobs.<br />
An unemployed participant of a<br />
focus group