Being Poor, Feeling Poorer : Inequality, Poverty and Poverty Perceptions in the Western Balkans »
Journal Issue
Volume/Issue: 2016/31
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Zsoka Koczan
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 19 February 2016
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781475515060.001
ISBN: 9781475515060
Keywords: Poverty and inequality, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, former Yugoslav Republic of, Montenegro, Serbia, Poverty measurement, Cross country analysis
Emerging Europe has undergone a major economic transformation over the past 25 years. Most countries experienced initial drops in output during transition, followed by recovery in the second half of the 1990s. The...