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

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

2007

World Bank

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.

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capacity building ethnic groups extreme poverty farmers food consumption household budget household consumption household surveys housing income living standards meat migration mortality population distribution population estimates poverty reduction remittances rural areas rural development rural population rural poverty sex transportation urban areas urban population

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Poor; Food items; Impact on poverty; Food item; Consumption aggregate; Price information; Small scale farmers; Consumption modules; Food share; Population groups; Aggregate poverty; Conflict; Household welfare; Expenditure data; Poverty indices; Non-food consumption; Rural; Poverty outcomes; Household characteristics; Poverty line; Poverty monitoring; Food basket; State university; Technical assistance; Poverty comparisons; Labor force; Poverty rate; Household expenditures; Population census; Internal migration; Policy research; Consumption pattern; Policy makers; Limited resources; Food spending; Change in population; Nonfood expenditures; Economic review; Welfare measure; Consumption patterns; Population size; Policy guidance; Health expenditures; Welfare indicator; Rural poverty rates; Welfare function; Poverty measures; Poverty assessment; Food poverty line; Consumption bundle; Absolute poverty line; Household level; Drop in poverty; Final poverty line; Inequality; Household head; Urban households; Resource constraints; Food poverty; Population statistics; Poverty assessments; Food expenditure; Absolute poverty; Consumption data; Food expenditures; Policy research working paper; Living standards survey; Poverty indexes; Consumption level; Household size; Water taps; Poverty levels; Poverty poverty; Population decreases; Household survey; Poverty rates; Non-food items; Food consumption expenditure; National level; Poverty measurement; International migration; Social assistance; Welfare measures; Stochastic dominance; Consumption definition; Sensitivity analysis; Per capita consumption; Final poverty; Ethnic group; Changes in poverty; Household poverty; Decline in poverty; Poverty lines; Poverty estimates

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