Social protection expenditure and performance review. Slovak Republic

This volume presents the results of a comprehensive social protection spending and performance review in the Slovak Republic, covering the first 12 years of political and economic transformation, 1989-2001. The review provides a broad picture of social protection expenditure trends, the coverage of the population, and the adequacy of benefits. It is intended to assist the government in social policymaking and to empower its social partners as participants in this process. The analysis also focuses separately on each national social protection scheme – old age, disability, survivors, sickness, unemployment, employment injury, family benefits, social assistance, and health insurance – tracing income and expenditures, the size and characteristics of the population covered, benefit levels, inflation adjustments, and, where available, administrative costs. The time span of the review makes it possible to identify effects of reforms adopted early in the 1990s, as well as unaddressed issues and problems the continue