Social Assistance Transfers in Bosnia and Herzegovina : Moving Toward a More Sustainable and Better-Targeted Safety Net

Social Assistance Transfers in Bosnia and Herzegovina : Moving Toward a More Sustainable and Better-Targeted Safety Net

Public expenditures on non-insurance social protection cash transfers absorb a huge share of the entities' respective budgets. This level of spending requires buoyant public revenues. However, public revenues will be under continuing pressure...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Policy Note
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACCOUNTING ACTUAL BENEFIT ADMINISTRATIVE DATA AGRICULTURAL INCOMES ALLOWANCE PROGRAM ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS AVERAGE BENEFIT BENEFICIARIES BENEFICIARY BENEFIT LEVELS BENEFIT SCHEMES CALCULATIONS CAPITAL GOODS CASH BENEFIT CASH BENEFITS CASH PAYMENT CASH TRANSFER CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMS CASH TRANSFERS CHILD ALLOWANCES CHILD BENEFITS CHILD PROTECTION CHRONIC POVERTY CHRONICALLY POOR CONSUMER CONSUMER GOODS CONTRIBUTION CONTRIBUTIONS COUNTERFACTUAL CROWDING OUT CURRENCY CURRENT ACCOUNT CURRENT PROGRAMS DATA COLLECTION DISABILITY DISABILITY BENEFIT DISABILITY BENEFITS DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS DURABLE GOODS EARNINGS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC CRISIS ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS ECONOMIC GROWTH ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA EMPLOYMENT STATUS EXCHANGE RATE EXTREME POVERTY FAMILY ASSISTANCE FAMILY SUPPORT FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS FINANCIAL CRISIS FISCAL CONSTRAINTS FOOD CONSUMPTION GDP GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT HBS HBS DATA HEALTH SERVICES HOUSEHOLD BUDGET HOUSEHOLD BUDGET SURVEY HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATA HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IMPACT ON POVERTY INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME GROUPS INCOME LEVELS INCOME LOSSES INCOME QUINTILE INCOME SOURCES INCOMES INEQUALITY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INSURANCE INSURANCE PROTECTION INVESTMENT PROGRAMS LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKETS LIVING CONDITIONS LIVING STANDARDS LOCAL CURRENCY LSMS MEANS TEST MEANS TESTING MEANS TESTS PENSION PENSION FUND PENSION INCOME PENSIONS PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA INCOME POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL SUPPORT POOR POSSESSION POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY ASSESSMENT POVERTY HEADCOUNT POVERTY HEADCOUNT RATE POVERTY IMPACT POVERTY IMPACTS POVERTY LINE POVERTY PROFILE POVERTY STATUS POVERTY UPDATE PRIVATE INVESTMENT PROTECTION SYSTEM PUBLIC EXPENDITURES PUBLIC INVESTMENT PUBLIC INVESTMENTS PUBLIC RESOURCES PUBLIC SPENDING PUBLIC TRANSFERS QUESTIONNAIRE RECESSION REDUCING POVERTY REGRESSION ANALYSIS REGRESSIVE TRANSFERS RELATIVE POVERTY REMOTE AREAS RENTS RURAL RURAL AREA RURAL AREAS SAFETY NET SAFETY NET PROGRAMS SAFETY NETS SALARIES SANITATION SAVINGS SENIOR SIMULATIONS SOCIAL ASSISTANCE SOCIAL BENEFITS SOCIAL INSURANCE SOCIAL INSURANCE PROGRAMS SOCIAL PROGRAM SOCIAL PROTECTION SOCIAL SAFETY NET SOCIAL SPENDING SOCIAL TRANSFER SOCIAL TRANSFERS SOCIAL WELFARE SOCIAL WORK SOCIAL WORKER STAKEHOLDERS TARGETING TARGETING MECHANISMS TRADE UNION TRANSFER BENEFITS TRANSIENT POOR TRANSITION ECONOMIES UNEMPLOYED UNEMPLOYMENT UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE VULNERABLE MEMBERS WAGES WAR WEAK INCOME WORTH
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/04/10804147/bosnia-herzegovina-social-assistance-transfers-bosnia-herzegovina-moving-toward-more-sustainable-better-targeted-safety-net http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18607

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Summary:	Public expenditures on non-insurance social protection cash transfers absorb a huge share of the entities' respective budgets. This level of spending requires buoyant public revenues. However, public revenues will be under continuing pressure in view of the impending economic crisis. Moreover, devoting a large proportion of public funds to social transfers has the effect of crowding out resources that could be devoted to public investments which will be increasingly needed to stimulate growth as the economy begins to sag under the impact of the world economic crisis. In addition, there is evidence that some rights based programs create disincentives for employment. This situation is fiscally unsustainable, economically inefficient, and socially inequitable. Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) needs to completely overhaul it s non-insurance social protection cash transfer programs. There are many ways in which BH could reform these programs and put in place measures aimed at developing a social safety net that is: (a) less of a burden on public resources, (b) more efficient, and (c) better targeted to the poor. Specifically, it is recommended that the governments in BH consider a three pronged approach with measures to: 1) improve and introduce targeting mechanisms to better channel resources to the poor; 2) strengthen benefits administration and beneficiary registry systems; and, 3) rationalize disability-related benefit schemes. An increasingly widespread recognition of the need for rationalization of the non-insurance social protection cash benefits is discernible in both the decision-making circles and in the public discourse in BH.

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