The Bank of Albania's report for the fourth quarter of 2024 presents an optimistic picture of the Albanian economy, highlighting a decrease in inflation, GDP growth, and improvements in financial markets. However, a deeper and more critical analysis, in relation...
As part of its ongoing series of analyses dedicated to the economy and its structuring, ALTAX presents its latest study. This political and economic paper offers a deep-dive analysis on the importance of tourism and infrastructure as drivers of Albania’s...
In the latest assessments by Moody's, S&P or Fitch, it seems that three Balkan economies already have an increasing ranking, being upgraded to the Ba3 level. Meanwhile, three other countries are still rated lower at BB- and B+ levels. These assessments...
According to the World Bank's latest analysis of the shortcomings and achievements of the economies of the Western Balkans, they seem to be learning from the fact that “they are subject to increasing pressures on their external sectors in...
Economic performance varies significantly between the first quarters of the last 10 years (2015 -2024). In a comparative view of the gross domestic product (last column), according to the quarters between each other, the year 2020 shows a decrease in the...
ALTAX comes with a new political-economic paper where it presents historical statistical facts from the year 2000 until today on the sustainability of the public debt, which is considered a key element in this paper, based a lot on the...
The economy of Bosnia and Herzegovina[1] expanded by 1.7% real year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2023, slowing from a 1.9% annual growth in the third quarter (see Tab. 4). In seasonally adjusted terms, fourth-quarter GDP rose 1.1%...
Economic growth in 2023 is estimated at 3.5%, supported by strong government consumption and some influential sectors such as construction and tourism and energy exports (see Table). The country had an exceptionally good tourist season in 2023, with the result that...
Economic growth has been strong in early 2023, but comes after slower economic growth in 2022 due to weaker private consumption and a larger drag from net exports[1]. Production growth had higher expectations but remained at the level of...
Serbia's economic growth accelerated in the second half of 2023, bringing GDP growth for the year to 2.5%, thanks to a better-than-expected performance of the agriculture and construction sectors, and a strong sector recovery of energy, after the crisis of...
