While visiting Albania, many tourists are inspired by the beautiful views they see and by the untouched nature through which they walk. Many visitors assume that life in these areas is just as beautiful as the view. However, digging deeper into the rural people’s lives, you find immediately that the opposite is true.
Albania is widely known as one of the poorest countries in Europe. The effects of the transition from a centralized economy in a rigid communist state and then to a free market economy in a democratic republic have weighed heavily on the people of Albania—particularly on its poor people. Despite the economy's robust growth in recent years, about 7.5 percent of the population lives in extreme poverty (UNDP MPI Index Report 2011/ CIA 2010) and struggle to put food on the table each day. Rural and mountainous areas are the poorest places in the country.
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