The budget programs for 2023, in their limitation related to the high public debt, as it appears at the beginning of the second 6 months 2023 (64.78% of GDP), despite the mitigating effects with at least 4% in decrease from...
A Cabinet reorganization is when government ministers are moved between ministerial posts. There can be minor changes, such as if a minister resigns and needs to be replaced. In the case of the changes of the governing cabinet at the beginning...
In 2018, according to Eurostat, women in Albania were paid 93.2 lek for every 100 lek paid to men, ranking Albania fifth among European countries with the lowest gender gap in average monthly salary. In 2022, women were paid 95.5 ALL...
In a capitalist economy, the government acts as a regulatory and supplementary body. Whereas, in a socialist economy, the government plays a comprehensive role in all economic activities, such as production, distribution and consumption of a country. These are responsibilities...
In the Eurozone, the government wage bill accounts for almost a quarter of total government expenditure and about 10% of GDP, so it is important from a macroeconomic point of view[1]. In Albania, the government wage bill...
Adequate tax revenues are necessary to guarantee the continuation of the country's reformation, but also to meet the growing social costs. Taxes and taxes should, more than before, enable public authorities to actively contribute to the pursuit of economic, social,...
When there is a shock to the market accompanied by an increase in the costs of financing it, add the moment when inflation is high, then the tension between the objective of low inflation of the Central Bank and price...
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...
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),...
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...
