2 minutes agoYear of social degradation in Kosovo 2017
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Little has been done throughout the year for the most sensitive categories of society. Mostly, there are 40 thousand veterans registered as members of the KLA, which does not necessarily match 13 thousand of the lists released immediately after the war. Even though the budget for the Social Assistance scheme has increased, [...]
Although the budget for the Social Assistance scheme has increased, this symbolic growth does not guarantee the removal of thousands of families from the extreme of poverty, writes “Koha Ditore”. While promises of reducing unemployment were not realized; figures show that in 2017 it has increased by about 3 percent.
Growth has also marked cases of job deaths and numerous cases of domestic violence, including five cases in which women have ended in death as a result of violence by their mates.
Not much has been done for the missing. Only 7 new cases have been identified until another 1.654 continue to be extinct. The value of retirement has been set up for war violations, but the verification promised to begin this year has not yet happened.
Unemployment up, same poverty trend
Despite promises of growing employment, unemployment has increased by about three percent. As achieved for the 100-day work of the Government, the Ministry of Labour and Social Goods, employment mediation has also been presented in the employment of 2,248 people, of them in the regular employment of 1.134 people. But this has not affected that the numbers were reduced, rather they have increased.
The results of the Workers' Power Survey recently released by the Kosovo Statistics Agency show that in the first nine months of this year unemployment has increased by 2.9 percent compared to the unemployment rate registered by this agency last year. The unemployment rate for the third quarter of this year has been 30.2 percent. For the second quarter of this year, unemployment has been at a rate of 30.6 percent, while 30.5 percent in the first quarter. The average for those nine months is 30.4 percent, or 2.9 percent higher than in 2016, when unemployment rates were 27.5 percent.
Poverty even this year has been described as one of Kosovo's biggest problems. But related statistics do not exist since 2015. The data from Kosovo's Statistics Agency on Poverty shows that in 2015, some 17.6 percent of the population in full poverty or 1.82 euros per day per adult person lived in Kosovo.
