Global status in 2025
The UN Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025 finds that more than 700 million people still live in extreme poverty, and that the risk of falling into — or back into — poverty remains high under compounded economic, climatic and conflict-related shocks. Progress since 2015 has been real but fragile, and current trajectories fall well short of the 2030 goalpost.
Source: United Nations, The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025.
European and Albanian context
Within Europe, poverty increasingly takes the form of in-work poverty and income precarity rather than absolute deprivation. In Albania, outward labour migration reflects a structural search for economic security; the quality and fairness of that mobility determines whether it reduces or merely relocates vulnerability.
NOVARIC® implementation commitments
- Apply the decent-work quality gate to every placement so that recruitment never moves a worker into precarious or exploitative employment.
- Operate a strict employer-pays model: no candidate is ever charged a fee, removing debt-financed migration as a poverty driver.
- Prioritise candidates from economically marginalised communities through the Economic Empowerment programme.
- Verify that wages, hours and social protections in host roles meet or exceed applicable legal and collective-agreement standards.
Key performance indicators
Measured through the Manual's 90-indicator register (browse the full register):
- SOC-01 Placements from marginalised communities
- SOC-04 Zero-fee compliance rate
- SOC-07 Wage-standard conformance
- DEI-09 Socio-economic diversity of placements
Through the Economic Empowerment programme, NOVARIC® identifies candidates in economically disadvantaged areas of Shkodër and the northern region, provides pre-departure vocational preparation at no cost to the candidate, and places them into verified decent-work roles — converting migration pressure into a structured route out of poverty.