Poverty In Albania

Annotation During the ten years of reform, Albania has been buffeted by set backs which led fully 40% of respondents to indicate that socioeconomic conditions have worsened during that period. While informal coping mechanisms have been developed in many communities, these are under stress and threaten to give way.

This paper examines the Progress Report for Albania’s National Strategy for Socio-Economic Development (NSSED). 2002 was the first year of implementing the NSSED. The implementation process has been oriented toward achieving the annual objectives and in accordance with the program of public priority measures for 2002–04. The experience gained in NSSED implementation, the definition and improvements to objectives and medium-term NSSED measures, the Millennium Development Goals, and Albania’s European integration objectives have all contributed to further improvements of the vision and medium and long-term NSSED objectives.

This Progress Report reviews implementation of Albania's National Strategy for Socio-Economic Development (NSSED) during 2003. The report is primarily orientated toward the vitalization and harmonization of mid-term and long-term development objectives; the principle of further prioritization of public measures; the real costing of priority public measures; and the extension of Albanian ownership of NSSED. The report also offers an improved mid-term vision and serves as a starting point for a long-term visionary process based on credible and realistic analyses.

Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: 10, University Of Vlora Ismail Qemali, language: Albanian, abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyze poverty, human capital and the relationship between them in Albania. Poverty is among the main problems of the world economy and poverty reduction today is considered as the main objective of the new millennium. Poverty in Albania grew after the 1990s. We had the following years of poverty reduction, but in recent years, we have again a slight increase. When analyzing data from the World Bank and other sources by linear regression, it appears that the rate of enrollment in primary education has a negative effect on GDP per capita, while there are positive correlations for GDP per capita and the rate of enrollment in secondary education. This paper suggests that, in order to enable the reduction of poverty, we need a greater involvement of the poor in the economy and increase the quantity and quality of human capital in Albania.

This report provides key insights into the social exclusion processes that affect Roma and Egyptian communities in Albania—two of the most vulnerable minority communities in Albania. It offers advice on the design of concrete actions to facilitate the inclusion of Roma and Egyptian communities into Albanian society, and also includes feedback from the Roma and Egyptian communities on the study findings and recommendations.'Roma and Egyptians in Albania' includes supporting data collected via participatory methodologies conducted in eleven study sites to investigate the socio-economic, cultural, institutional, and historical situation of Roma and Egyptian communities across Albania. The report's proposed public policies and strategies on minority, poverty, and social exclusion issues have been endorsed by the Roma and Egyptian communities.