Accurate and timely poverty measurement is central to development policy, yet the availability of up-to-date high-quality household survey data remains limited-particularly in countries where poverty is most concentrated. Survey-to-survey imputation has emerged as a practical response to this...

Over the past decade, the Albanian banking sector has undergone a remarkable transformation amid strong macroeconomic performance and sound financial reforms. Nevertheless, pockets of vulnerability remain, including some that were identified during the IMF's 2014 Financial Sector Assessment...