This paper investigates the effect of health-related expenditure on household welfare in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo, all of which have undertaken major health sector reform. Two methodologies are used: (i) the incidence and intensity of 'catastrophic' health care expenditure, and (ii) the effect of out-of-pocket payments on poverty headcount and poverty gap m...

Rotaviruses are one of the most important causes of gastroenteritis in children under 5 years old. Analysis of G and P rotavirus genotypes in circulation is crucial in evaluating the appropriacy of mass vaccination of children worldwide. Overall, 592 stool samples were collected in Tirana (Albania), the Salento peninsula (South Italy), and three different hospitals in Rome (Central Italy). Of t...

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Albania provides a small amount of social assistance to nearly 20% of its population through a system which allows a degree of community discretion in determining distribution. This study indicates that relative to other safety net programs in low-income countries, social assistance in Albania is fairly well targeted to the poor. Moreover, the poverty targeting exceeds that which could be expec...

We study the impact of international migration on enrollment of the left-behinds in Albania using the 2008 and 2012 Living Standard Measurement Survey. We employ a 2-stage Probit model controlling for endogeneity with an instrumental-variable approach. We find that migration has a negative and significant impact on enrollment in both waves. This result holds across different sub-samples and alt...

Admir BAROLLI, Shinji SAKAMOTO, Tetsuya ODA, Evjola SPAHO, Makoto IKEDA, Leonard BAROLLI Logos University, Rr. Dritan Hoxha, Tirana, Albania Graduate School of Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT) 3-30-1 Wajiro-Higashi, Higashi-Ku, Fukuoka 811-0295, Japan Department of Electronics and Telecommunication, Polytechnic University of Tirana Mother Tereza Square, Nr. 4, Tirana, Albania ...

Most of the studies carried out on identification of barriers to knowledge sharing have focused on developing and developed countries. The purpose of this study was to explore the barrier factors inhibiting knowledge sharing in smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in transition economies that have different social, cultural, and economic conditions as compared to other developing and develo...

James Ciment, New York 141 In an effort to cope with the medical and psychological needs of children among the Kosovar refugees, Unicef has embarked on several immunisation and counselling programmes in Albania, Macedonia, and Montenegro. Last week, the agency began immunising around 9000 children under the age of 5 who had fled to refugee camps in Macedonia. The vaccinations included in the pr...

The paper provides detailed data on the Albanian families who moved from Kosovo to Albania during 1934, relying archival of Central Archive Albania. Based researched documents, we have provided migration Albanians Kosovo, their settlement in Albania, that number members specifying them by name, surname, origin, reason for migration, place where they settled, etc.