This paper focuses on Albania's Request for Purchase Under the Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI). The RFI provides rapid …

This paper aims to determine how much of the economic slowdown of Albania is owing to cyclical conditions and how much … relative to 1997-2008, of which 2.8 percentage points are due to lower potential growth. Albania has significant potential to … improve its export competitiveness. However, Albania's competitiveness has shown narrow improvements over the past five years …

past few years, Albania has successfully maintained macroeconomic stability amid a turbulent external environment. A …

This 2017 Article IV Consultation highlights that Albania's economy continues to strengthen, benefitting from rising …

is still high, and contingent liabilities are increasing. Albania's relatively large financing needs also pose risks that …

This paper explores Albania's current account (CA) deficit that improved in 2016, but remains sizable. The EBA … settings. Adjusting for Albania's specific circumstances, the current account gap is estimated at -1.0 percent and the real … effective exchange rate is overvalued by about 6 percent, reflecting Albania's low national saving and large FDI inflows. Though …

This paper discusses First Post-Program Monitoring Discussions in 2018 with Albania. The Albanian economy has continued …