Standard & Poor’s decision to upgrade Albania’s credit rating from “BB-” to “BB” represents an important development for public finances and capital markets. On the surface, this signals an improvement in macroeconomic stability, debt management, and confidence in the country’s...
Albania’s efforts to combat informality have been a focus of successive governments, with campaigns in 2015, 2018, and 2021 aimed at curbing informal businesses, wage evasion, and tax avoidance. These previous campaigns mainly included: Tax Registration Campaigns (2015)The 2015 campaign focused...
The intensified campaign by the Albanian government against tax evasion in tourism, with a particular focus on wage evasion, appears as a maneuver synchronized with the electoral dynamics of 2025. This move, which ostensibly aims to strengthen fiscal discipline and...
An analysis of the two poles of a phenomenon such as "seduction" and "corruption" in society, especially in countries like Albania and the Balkan region, is fundamental to understanding the roots and consequences of these phenomena. In an analysis
Education priorities and policies in Albania over the past decade have focused on improving the quality, inclusiveness and equity of public education through increased funding and strategic reforms. From a system perspective, the education system appears to be in need of: Increasing...
