Tirana, Albania. The mission's objective was to prepare a comprehensive assessment of government debt management functions by … DeMPA tool. The assessment reveals that Albania meets the requirements for the A score in eleven dimensions assessed the B … assessed by the World Bank under the DeMPA program so far, Albania stands out as one of the few which has sound debt management …

Since 1998 Albania has experienced an important transformation that has lifted it into the ranks of upper middle income … economy. It further elaborates the growth challenges Albania faces as newly arrived upper middle income country. Chapter two …

This background note is one of several analytical contributions to the 2021 Albania country economic memorandum (CEM …). The CEM is a World Bank flagship report that aims to help Albania identify next steps in its structural reform agenda. As … set out in the CEM, Albania needs to refocus attention on the pre-crisis reform agenda and accelerate its long …

While Albania 's performance has been impressive, there are concerns about the sustainability of high rates of economic … only picked up modestly. This suggests that in order to sustain high GDP growth going forward, Albania must seek to raise … Albania's access to concessional financing sources will decline, as well as expectations for dwindling external support and …

The Country Opinion Survey in Albania assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in … Albania perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral …/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in Albania on 1) their views regarding the general environment …

await the results of a presidential election on July 9, 2014 and plan for the upcoming inauguration of a new president in …, continues to soften, falling by 8.6 percent in 2014 through June, led by coal (down 15.2 percent). The recent volatility of oil … seasonally-adjusted annualized rate in the first quarter of 2014. Safeguarding hard-fought poverty reduction and social …

crimping economic growth and weakening public and private sector balance sheets. With the 2014 budget under discussion with …