Kosovo : Poverty Assessment, Volume 2. Estimating Trends from Non-Comparable Data

Poverty in Kosovo is widespread and has remained persistent in the first half of this decade. The evidence suggests that poverty is higher among those who live in families that are large, have many unemployed members, and have low education levels. The poor are also geographically concentrated in rural areas and a few regions. The main message of this report is that the slow and volatile growth was doubly disadvantageous. The first disadvantage was that it did not enable a significant fraction of the population to earn their way out of poverty. The second disadvantage was that by constraining the government's revenue base, it made it difficult for many families to receive adequate public protection against shocks. Therefore, to improve welfare in the future, the report recommends a focus on generating high and sustainable growth by improving urban services and infrastructure and addressing inequities in the access to secondary and higher education for the poorest population transitioning out of over-reliance on migration, and improving the targeting and expansion of the social assistance program if the revenue base of the government improves over time.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2007-10-03
Subjects:	ABSOLUTE POVERTY, ABSOLUTE POVERTY LINE, AGGREGATE POVERTY, CAPACITY BUILDING, CHANGE IN POPULATION, CHANGES IN POVERTY, CONFLICT, CONSUMPTION AGGREGATE, CONSUMPTION BUNDLE, CONSUMPTION DATA, CONSUMPTION DEFINITION, CONSUMPTION LEVEL, CONSUMPTION MODULES, CONSUMPTION PATTERN, CONSUMPTION PATTERNS, DECLINE IN POVERTY, DROP IN POVERTY, ECONOMIC REVIEW, ETHNIC GROUP, ETHNIC GROUPS, EXPENDITURE DATA, EXTREME POVERTY, FARMERS, FINAL POVERTY, FINAL POVERTY LINE, FOOD BASKET, FOOD CONSUMPTION, FOOD CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE, FOOD EXPENDITURE, FOOD EXPENDITURES, FOOD ITEM, FOOD ITEMS, FOOD POVERTY, FOOD POVERTY LINE, FOOD SHARE, FOOD SPENDING, HEALTH EXPENDITURES, HOUSEHOLD BUDGET, HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS, HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION, HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES, HOUSEHOLD HEAD, HOUSEHOLD LEVEL, HOUSEHOLD POVERTY, HOUSEHOLD SIZE, HOUSEHOLD SURVEY, HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS, HOUSEHOLD WELFARE, HOUSING, IMPACT ON POVERTY, INCOME, INEQUALITY, INTERNAL MIGRATION, INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION, LABOR FORCE, LIMITED RESOURCES, LIVING STANDARDS, LIVING STANDARDS SURVEY, MEAT, MIGRATION, MORTALITY, NATIONAL LEVEL, NON-FOOD CONSUMPTION, NON-FOOD ITEMS, NONFOOD EXPENDITURES, PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION, POLICY GUIDANCE, POLICY MAKERS, POLICY RESEARCH, POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER, POOR, POPULATION CENSUS, POPULATION DECREASES, POPULATION DISTRIBUTION, POPULATION ESTIMATES, POPULATION GROUPS, POPULATION SIZE, POPULATION STATISTICS, POVERTY ASSESSMENT, POVERTY ASSESSMENTS, POVERTY COMPARISONS, POVERTY ESTIMATES, POVERTY INDEXES, POVERTY INDICES, POVERTY LEVELS, POVERTY LINE, POVERTY LINES, POVERTY MEASUREMENT, POVERTY MEASURES, POVERTY MONITORING, POVERTY OUTCOMES, POVERTY POVERTY, POVERTY RATE, POVERTY RATES, POVERTY REDUCTION, PRICE INFORMATION, REMITTANCES, RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS, RURAL, RURAL AREAS, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, RURAL POPULATION, RURAL POVERTY, RURAL POVERTY RATES, SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS, SEX, SMALL SCALE FARMERS, SOCIAL ASSISTANCE, STATE UNIVERSITY, STOCHASTIC DOMINANCE, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, TRANSPORTATION, URBAN AREAS, URBAN HOUSEHOLDS, URBAN POPULATION, WATER TAPS, WELFARE FUNCTION, WELFARE INDICATOR, WELFARE MEASURE, WELFARE MEASURES,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/10/8614992/kosovo-poverty-assessment-vol-2-2-estimating-trends-non-comparable-data https://hdl.handle.net/10986/7618
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