Poverty was widespread and basic goods, including bread, were in short supply. Albanians saw Italy as their “Western window.” Many of the Albanians settled in Italy, obtained work and raised ...

- Until recently, few refugees chose poverty-stricken Albania as a pit stop on their perilous trek towards wealthy EU countries. But with the so-called western Balkan migrant trail now shut, ...

Declining economic growth and weakened labour markets have coincided with increasing poverty. Albania still ranks as the 28th most equal country out of 168. The gap between rich and poor has been ...

In 2021 alone, Albania received more than 5.6 million foreign visitors, most of them from the European Union. But as the CRCA/ECPAT Albania research reveals: “Child poverty remains one of the major ...

The route out of poverty begins with poverty. As readers can imagine about the Albanians who reached Greece in big numbers in the '90s and '00s, they mostly did menial work. What choice did they have?

Italy had welcomed thousands of Albanians fleeing poverty after the fall of communism more than three decades ago, and Albania’s current government wanted to pay back the Italians’ hospitality.