Poverty in Albania

Soto, Hermine De; Gordon, Peter; Gëdeshi, Ilir; Sinoimeri, Zamira

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“…First, Albania and Ecuador present two distinct migratory systems, thereby increasing the reliability and validity of the results. Even though both Ecuadorian and Albanian migration is primarily economically driven (Barjaba, 2000;De Soto, Gordon, Gedeshi, & Sinoimeri, 2002;Kule, Mancellari, Papapanagos, Qirici, & Sanfey, 2002), the composition of each migratory flow tends to differ among sites. In Albania, unemployed young males under 25 years of age with secondary or vocational education are more likely to migrate (Castaldo, Litchfield, & Reilly, 2005), while in Ecuador, although young males continue to migrate at higher rates, female migration is a growing reality that is reflected in the major migrant destinations; for instance, some estimate that Ecuadorian migrant women living in Spain now outnumber males: 51 vs. 49%, respectively (UNFPA- FLACSO, 2008).…”

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Beyond the money: the impact of international migration on children's life satisfaction: evidence from Ecuador and Albania

Cortina

2014

Migration and Development

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Using data from eight focus groups and two household surveys conducted in the cities of Tirana, Albania and Quito, Ecuador, this paper finds that migration from at least one parent has a negative impact on the life satisfaction of children and adolescents left behind relative to that of children and adolescents who live with both parents who have never migrated. The results of this paper suggest that the impact of migration goes beyond traditional ones (e.g. remittances), which is useful for understanding how different components of international migration in general, and parental migration in particular, relate to outcomes that not only affect the full development prospects of children and adolescents, but also have important implications for policy initiatives that seek to address both the positive and negative impacts of migration on sending countries.

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Beyond the money: the impact of international migration on children's life satisfaction: evidence from Ecuador and Albania

Cortina

2014

Migration and Development

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“…Italy and Greece have a Purchasing Power Parity GNI of 26,760 and 19,920 dollars per capita respectively (WDI Online, 2004).2 King and Vullnetari (2003) andDe Soto et al (2002) discuss the issue in descriptive terms, whileCarletto et al (2004) touch briefly on the quantitative aspect.…”

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Moving away from poverty: a spatial analysis of poverty and migration in Albania

Zezza

Carletto

Davis

2005

Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans

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This paper analyses recent patterns of migration and poverty in Albania, a country that following the collapse of the communist regime in 1990-has been experiencing high migration rates. Using a combination of survey and census data, the paper characterises spatial patterns in the distribution of poverty and migration at a high level of geographic disaggregation. The results emphasise the importance of analysing internal and international migration as different phenomena, as the two appear to be associated in opposite ways to observed poverty and welfare levels. While poverty acts as a push factor for internal migration, it seems to be a constraining factor for the more costly international migration. The results also suggest that rural migration to urban areas contributes to the relocation of poverty in urban areas.

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“…Indeed, in the present sample, almost one fourth of participants considered health to be little or somewhat important and this figure might be much higher in other parts of the population (e.g., in youth who do not have university education). This finding is important considering that Albania is still a country where regular check-ups are still a behavior of the minority, where self-medication is the most frequent form of self-reliance, and professional assessment is limited only to urgent or grave cases (De Soto, Gordon, Gedeshi, & Sinoimeri, 2002).…”

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A Predictive Model for Physical Activity, Healthy Eating, Alcohol Drinking, and Risky Driving Among Albanian Youth

Melonashi

Shkembi

2015

Sage Open

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Studies report an increasing prevalence of health risk behaviors among Albanian adolescents and young adults. The ProblemBehavior Theory provides a useful framework for explaining both health-compromising and health-enhancing behaviors by considering several personal and environmental factors. The present study used a model with seven independent variables including age, gender, attitudes, locus of control, risk behavior tendency, stress, and parent/peer models of health behavior to predict two health-compromising behaviors (alcohol drinking and risky driving) and two health-enhancing behaviors (physical activity, healthy eating) in a sample of 347 Albanian young adults (157 men and 190 women, M age = 20.42, SD = 1.48). The measuring instrument was based on the Health Behavior Questionnaire developed by Jessor, Donovan, and Costa. Results showed that the model explained 26.1% of the variance in risky driving behavior, and the significant predictors included, risk behavior tendency, gender, and attitude toward health. These same three variables also significantly predicted drinking behavior, explaining 16.8% of the variance. Also the model explained 14.2% of the variance in healthy eating behavior and the significant predictors included, models of significant others, gender, locus of control, attitude toward health, and age. Finally, the only two significant predictors for physical activity were risky behavior tendency and perceived stress, which accounted for 13.2% of the variance. Findings are discussed in the context of suggestions for future research and practical implications for policy making.

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Poverty in Albania

Cited by 46 publications

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Beyond the money: the impact of international migration on children's life satisfaction: evidence from Ecuador and Albania

Beyond the money: the impact of international migration on children's life satisfaction: evidence from Ecuador and Albania

Moving away from poverty: a spatial analysis of poverty and migration in Albania

A Predictive Model for Physical Activity, Healthy Eating, Alcohol Drinking, and Risky Driving Among Albanian Youth

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