When you think about current wages and initiatives to raise them, if you're anything like us, your mind probably goes to front page news, headlines, talk shows and statements on television, comments spread on social media, resignations missed by executives....
At the end of March 2022, after the meeting of the Council of Ministers, in a statement to the media, Prime Minister Edi Rama announced the national plan for increasing average and above average salaries for the public administration and...
For the second year in a row, in the monitoring that we have carried out, the municipalities are making more progress in relation to the programs approved by the Municipal Councils compared to those that are delegated as development programs...
Political versions coordinated on the basis of interests are the ones that count for achieving results in the case of promoting a supportive action. Although various policy proposals have been advocated or adopted by governments and interest groups in an...
Many countries tax certain assets in this way, such as ordinary interest-bearing deposits. On the contrary, avoiding taxation of investment returns, equal pre- and after-tax real returns are maintained, regardless of the mix of inflation and real-to-nominal returns. However, a comprehensive...
The dividend is still a deficient culture in the history of capital development in Albania, even though we have three decades of experience with capitalism. Companies operating in the Albanian economy, in very few cases, make transparent the implemented policy...
Housing prices around the world have experienced an uninterrupted boom because of the global financial crisis [1]. However, the extent of the housing boom shows considerable variation across countries. In Albania over the last 12 years (2010 – 2022),...
Taxpayers are more willing to pay taxes if they believe that governments spend tax revenue on programs that benefit people like them, or programs that they value that others are paying their fair share of taxes and that they have...
In broad terms, exchange rate risk [1] is major when a company or investment relies on a foreign currency that must be converted into the Albanian lek. Foreign exchange risk can be caused by the appreciation/devaluation of the Lek,...
The legal minimum wage level has over the years been used as the most direct policy instrument of governments to influence wage levels at the bottom of the distribution mechanism. But even though minimum wages are considered as a policy action...
