Visar Ymer actually tells Minister Bislimi's manipulations: We have economic decline, not development

Despite the government's not doing any assessments of the economic downturn, and especially of the damage done to private sector businesses and workers, including the informal economy, Minister Bislimi came up with a Facebook post where he said unemployment was down by 6.6%.

This is considered to be “manipulation by” from Wisar Ymer, who even adds that there will be increased unemployment and economic downturn.

Many citizens of the country have remained unemployed, while many have been reduced and even halved their salaries, but it does not seem to impress the government on the run.

Ymer considers that workers considered to be “employed”, in fact, have been employed but without job contracts and who through government schemes will benefit from 170 euros, which is less pay than previously paid, writes Periscope.

And he's trying to make propaganda for his success as minister of his government, he's building a deceptive mirror that covers the past, distracts the present, and distorts the future. ” writes Ymer.

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SHIFRA MINEPLE DO NOT It's MANIPULM.

Finance and Transferences Minister Besnik Bislimi has declared that unemployment has decreased by 6.6% (which drops 1.8 percentage points) this month. Reference. That would indeed have been a great success. If it were true.

But no. The minister here plays with numbers in a manipulative and malicious way.

First of course, it is impossible for unemployment to drop into the middle of total public activity because of pandemic. The whole world knows that. Of course I know Mr. Bislimi.

Second, if unemployment fell to 6.6% then it would have been the result of past governments' economic policies, when we bear in mind that this Government is in power since early February, while the minister is talking about April. It's more than naive to think that you can affect unemployment with a month of governance -- even when this is super governance as government officials are thinking. I guess that's what I know, too. Bislimi.

But actually Bislimi here is referring to registration of workers from companies to participate in the benefit programme from the emergency package. And here comes the problem with this pride of the Minister. Because these registered workers are certainly a part of those workers who have been employed without contracts. And now these guys are recording. Very good. But this is not a reduction in unemployment. This is the reduction of the <x0-> black” economy.

And generally reduction of aggregate demand. Because these registered people, when they were under contract employment, certainly had a monthly salary higher than 170 euros a month's worth of emergency packages. All those registered have had more than 170 euros of emergency packages. All others who have been employed without contracts who are not registered have now had the highest salary of 130 that they will receive from the emergency package as unemployed (if taken). So it turns out that our economy will have much less circulation than it has had before pandemic. And this will be economic decline. Which will deepen our unemployment.

Besides, manipulation doesn't end here. Minstri claims businesses have declared 946 new workers, while the evacuation of only 1268 total employees. But what about the employees who weren't even warned? Their dismissal is not registered because they have never figured out employees. According to a research by the Academy of Sciences and Arts, the number of unregistered workers in Kosovo amounts to 35% of the total number of workers (Analise of the grey economy in Kosovo), A SHAK 2019). From this assurance, the minister who the number of truly dismissed from work (not according to official figures) is not much larger. And what if when we calculate this and it turns out that we actually have a lot less employees today than we've had (registered and black)?

Of course, the current economic situation is not the responsibility of this government. It is the combination of effects of pandemic and long-term economic mismanagement. This condition cannot be weathered overnight. And right here is the problem with this manipulation of Bislim by wanting to propaganda for his success as minister of his government, he builds a deceptive mirror that covers the past, distracts the present, and distorts the future. Because this thinking is meant to mean that economic failures are not the result of harmful policies but of mismanagement. So what we need is the best manager (number) that will bring better results with the same policies. Bislimi knows, or at least the prime minister would have to know, that in Kosovo we have a problem with the economic model first, and then with mismanagement.