Gender Gaps in Albania through the Lens of Poverty and Shared Prosperity : Findings from the 2012 LSMS
This report analyzes gender dimensions of poverty and shared prosperity in Albania using data from the most recent rounds of the Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) Albania. The goal is understand both the distribution of poverty and lower e...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/09/26795490/gender-gaps-albania-through-lens-poverty-shared-prosperity-findings-2012-lsms http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25205 |
| Summary: | This report analyzes gender dimensions
of poverty and shared prosperity in Albania using data from
the most recent rounds of the Living Standards Measurement
Survey (LSMS) Albania. The goal is understand both the
distribution of poverty and lower economic outcomes for
women and the underlying gender gaps contributing to these
disparities. Two frameworks are used: the ECA Region Shared
Prosperity Framework, which analyzes how productive assets
create prosperity at the household level, and the World
Development Report on Gender and Development, which presents
an explicitly gendered framework in which individuals,
households, and institutions interact.3 The report considers
household composition, education, labor force participation
and outcomes, social transfers, social capital, access to
technology, and subjective poverty. The period available in
the data, from 2008 to 2012, corresponds to the global
financial crisis, which had a severe impact on the Albanian
economy. This provides the opportunity to examine how key
outcomes for women changed in a period of economic downturn.
The report provides a rapid, broad overview of gender gaps
based on new data from the 2012 LSMS, in the context of the
Shared Prosperity and WDR frameworks. It examines gender
differences between who is poor and in the bottom 40 percent
of the population, and how they have changed since 2008. To
understand the causes of gendered differences in poverty,
the report then looks at gaps in key assets, asset use,
wages, and transfers between men and women in 2012, as well
as whether these gaps have widened or narrowed since 2008.
The report is not meant to provide a complete and updated
gender diagnostic for Albania, which would require review of
policies and institutions and how they impact women’s
endowments, use of endowments, and ability to benefit from
the returns to endowments. The 2012 data also do not provide
a complete picture of gender in marginalized ethnic
communities or specific rural areas, because the survey
design did not oversample these groups. This report uses
primarily the official definition of poverty as those in
households with per-person consumption of less than the
national poverty line (6,412new lek/month). However, the
final sections on social capital and participation and
subjective poverty address some additional components of
poverty included in more comprehensive definitions,
individual experiences with poverty, ability to participate
in society, and ability to access basic needs. |
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