Despite the steady improvement in the macroeconomic environment, Albania is still considered one of the poorest countries in Europe. Considerable improvement in poverty rates has been made in the last decade and according to the World Bank's Poverty Assessment in 2008, Albania has already...

This paper provides an overview of conceptual understandings of, and methodological research issues on, the relationship between chronic, or long-term, poverty and processes of migration. The paper presents a framework to enable an analysis of social relations and processes of exclusion, and the...