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Poverty Analysis Course, Tirana, Albania, April 7-11, 2008

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Partners: Institute of Statistics of Albania, Eastern Europe and Central Asia Poverty Reduction and Economic Management unit of the World Bank, World Bank Institute

Participants:  20 representatives from line ministries, statisticians and researchers from Albania, academia.
Description: The objective of this course is to strengthen the analytical capacity in Albania and to provide the participants with the necessary technical skills. The topics covered in this course will include poverty and well-being, welfare aggregates, poverty measurement, inequality measurement, poverty lines, poverty profiles, the determinants of poverty, LSMS & HBS for policy analysis, and gender analysis for PRSP and MDG monitoring. The course involves a series of computer training and exercises using SPSS software.

Agenda                                                                                            

Background papers: 

Albania: Urban Growth, Migration and Poverty Reduction: A Poverty Assessment. 2007 (pdf - 1MB)

Albania Poverty Assessment (English) (pdf - 13 MB) 

Albania Poverty Assessment (Albanian) (pdf - 6 MB) 

Albania: Trends in Poverty and Inequality (English) (pdf - 424 KB)

Albania: Trends in Poverty and Inequality (Albanian) (pdf - 2.3 MB)

Albania: Labor Market Assessment (English) (pdf - 10 MB)

Albania: Labor Market Assessment (Albanian) (pdf - 936 KB)

Presentations:

Paolo Verme, Professor of Economics, University of Torino
Poverty Analysis (All modules)

Sasun Tsirunyan, Assistant Professor, Armenian University

Computer Exercises (SPSS)
Consumption aggregateDurable GoodsGini Coefficient,

Household survey 1Household survey 2Household survey 3,

Lorenz CurvePoverty SyntaxSyntax Commands

Rachel Smith-Govoni, Consultant, DFID
Surveys: Using LSMS, HBS, LFS and SILC for Poverty Analysis (ppt - 248 KB) (Albanian)

Gulnara Febres, Senior Operations Officer, WBI
Gender Analysis for the PRSP and MDGs Monitoring  (Albanian)

List of participants    

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