Journal of Knowledge Management, Economics and Information Technology

When Romania joined the European Union on January 1, 2007, special provisions were taken in order to facilitate and support the implementation of this action in good conditions and, at the same time, to safeguard the proper functioning of U.E.(2) policies and institutions. Through its accession to the EU, Romania has agreed to assume both rights and obligations assigned to each Member State. According to the normal practice, the European institutions are monitoring the implementation of the Community acquis, in order to ensure itself that these obligations are compiled.

  THE RADIOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENT OF CORRUPTION (342.8 KiB, 1,523 hits)

Poverty is a very widespread phenomenon directly related to consumption (or income) and other important problems of everyday life, such as the lack of appropriate infrastructure, security, quality of health and education, etc. Poverty is traditionally measured in monetary terms. After an aggregate income, expenditure is defined to measure poverty; the next step is the definition of one or more poverty lines. Based on a monetary concept, all individuals who fall under a certain line called poverty line are considered poor people.

This paper provides a definition of the monetary and non-monetary poverty concept. It focuses in statistical estimations for the relation between status of individual (poor-non poor) and family composite and education level of the head. We examine whether the changes in poverty level are reflected in the area (rural/urban) and regional levels by conducting stochastic dominance analysis for different areas and regions. The data for the analyses are from Albania LSMS 2012.

The paper ends with results of statistical testing and conclusions that emerge from the analysis used.

  Analyzing the Monetary Poverty in Albania Using Statistical Methods (640.1 KiB, 1,835 hits)