Egypt is on track to achieve its long-term goal of reducing the poverty rate to 6 percent by 2022. Continued progress … policies will be most effective at reducing rural poverty in Egypt . Using household survey data from 1997 the study analyzes …

Wheat is central to the government of Egypt's food security policy which is based on increasing self-sufficiency in …

Wheat is central to the government of Egypt’s food security policy which is influenced by a concern for overdependence …

While sustainable economic growth, poverty reduction, and the management of migration flows are among the most pressing …. Results show that agricultural, migration and human capital assets have a differential impact across livelihood choices, and … that this impact varies by gender and age. Two areas of policy concern derive from this analysis. First, migration is …

impact of migration and remittances on the composition of household income. A two-stage methodology is followed. A variable … for the predicted number of migrants in each household is generated to control for selectivity in migration. This variable … the duration and intensity of remittance-driven migration, and the structure of economic activity within a community are …

agricultural sectors combined with profound demographic changes, primarily due to massive out-migration towards urban areas and … abroad. Despite the potential relevance of migration – and the resulting remittances – in fostering, or hindering … understanding of the role migration has played in the re-allocation of resources in agriculture among migrant families in Albania, a …

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 …

characterize the evolution of Albanian international migration since the fall of Communism in 1990. We distinguish between … permanent and temporary migration, and between the two principal destinations, Greece and Italy. Second, we explore, using … time in the pull and push factors that drive migration flows. While early on in the transition political and economic …

Population Census of Albania – the paper documents the phenomena of internal and external migration in Albania, a country that in … Albanian households have had direct exposure to migration events, either through direct temporary migration of a household … household’s migration decision. The role of household and community characteristics, including relative deprivation and the …