Konceptualizovanje siromaštva u socijalnoj politici i praksi socijalističke Jugoslavije

Perišić, Natalija; Vidojević, Jelena

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“…In Bosnia and Herzegovina, for example, the difference between the lowest and highest amounts paid off was sixfold; in Macedonia and Montenegro, it was twofold; and in Serbia, it was nearly threefold. Furthermore, the lowest benefit level in Serbia was three times higher than the one in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Perišić & Vidojević, 2020). At the same time, the procedure of setting the benefits indicates a relative approach to minimum income protection, which has been, alongside with the focus on social insurance, a dominant mode in continental Europe.…”

Section: Residual Minimum Income During Socialism In the Western Balkansmentioning

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Minimum income in the Western Balkans: From socialism to the European Pillar of Social Rights

2022

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In this article, we examine the evolution of minimum income programmes in the Western Balkans (comprising Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia). During socialism, Yugoslavia developed a rudimentary minimum income protection programme, while Albania did not have one. As countries moved towards a market economy, socialism's legacy remained relevant, but especially since 2000, governments have taken more direct responsibility for the minimum income schemes—typically under the influence of the World Bank. The attention was paid to strict targeting accuracy rather than to adequacy or sufficient coverage of the lowest deciles. In essence, neither socialist nor neoliberal policymakers ever recognised anything but the poverty relief function of the minimum income. Both ideologies were hostile, or at best indifferent, to increasing the adequacy and generosity of minimum income programmes, perceiving them as impediments and distractions that slowed socialist and neoliberal transformations. Despite some reform initiatives supported by the World Bank and, more recently, the European Union, the generosity and adequacy of minimum income programmes remain low, and coverage keeps declining. There have been very few efforts to develop inclusion function of the minimum income, while the activation aspect has achieved very little, sometimes degrading into punitive programmes of unpaid community work. In this dismal picture, the European Pillar of Social Rights action framework could serve as a guide for a long overdue third phase in the Western Balkans' minimum income policy evolution.

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Section: Residual Minimum Income During Socialism In the Western Balkansmentioning

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Minimum income in the Western Balkans: From socialism to the European Pillar of Social Rights

2022

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“…For example, several recent articles discussed the situation of children with disabilities [28,29]. In the context of broader analysis, scholars highlight that people with disabilities remain at the margins of Serbian society and experience structural discrimination through segregation and institutionalisation [30].…”

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Participation, Legal Capacity, and Gender: Reflections from the United Nations Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Project in Serbia

2023

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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) establishes that people with disabilities shall enjoy their human rights on an equal basis with others. Those rights include the right to legal capacity and to protection against discrimination, including intersectional and multiple forms of discrimination on the basis of disability and gender. In an effort to support the realisation of the CRPD, the United Nations team in Serbia undertook a project to address the implementation of these rights under the UN Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNPRPD) programme. Namely, by bringing together stakeholders from the UN, government and civil society, the UNPRPD project in Serbia sought to create structural changes to uphold the rights of people with disabilities. With a view of understanding the process of change within, rather than the outcomes of, this UPRPD project, twenty-eight semi-structured interviews were conducted using the Most Significant Change Technique (MSCT) with key stakeholders involved in such a project. The interviews were analysed using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to preserve the unique and diverse perspectives of participants who had differing roles across the project. The analysis allowed us to identify a number of facets of the process that facilitate structural change: coalition-building events; strengthening stakeholder capacity and relationships; the participation of persons with disabilities; and innovation in terms of what made the project significant, novel and in itself a change. All these facets are discussed in this article, with the purpose of supporting global efforts in alignment with the CRPD. On the whole, this article aims to support a better understanding of disability-inclusive development projects in line with the CRPD and to give evidence on how countries may begin to tackle the structural exclusion of persons with disabilities in society.

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Konceptualizovanje siromaštva u socijalnoj politici i praksi socijalističke Jugoslavije

Cited by 2 publications

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Minimum income in the Western Balkans: From socialism to the European Pillar of Social Rights

Minimum income in the Western Balkans: From socialism to the European Pillar of Social Rights

Participation, Legal Capacity, and Gender: Reflections from the United Nations Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Project in Serbia

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