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IZA Journal of Labor & Development

Table 3 Poverty in rural Kosovo

From: The effects of migration on poverty and inequality in rural Kosovo

 

Yearly income (€)

Headcount-index

Poverty deficit

Poverty severity

Headcount index

     

Without remittances

Counterfactual incomes

Absolute poverty line

      

€ 1.55 line, 2009 prices*

566

0.07

0.02

0.01

0.09

0.07

PPP-US$ 4.30 line

1,453

0.45

0.16

0.08

0.51

0.48

Relative poverty line

      

60% of sample median**

930

0.20

0.06

0.03

0.22

0.21

  1. Source: Own calculation based on KRS 2010 data.
  2. N=8,591 rural household members from both subgroups with and without migrants
  3. *Absolute poverty line used by the World Bank (2011) for Kosovo on the basis of a cost-of-basic needs approach for 2009.
  4. **This poverty line corresponds to 60% of the median equivalised per capita income within the sample.
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