In the fourth quarter of 2025, the average gross monthly salary per employee reached 86,984 lekë, marking an increase of 4.3% compared to the same quarter of 2024 and an increase of 4.4% compared to the third quarter of...
Real estate prices have grown faster than incomes in Albania, as in many other countries. They are continuing to grow even in 2024, but not at the high rates of recent years. Fred Harrison argues that rising prices are the key...
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...
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...
The OECD employment and labor force participation rates stabilized at 70.1% and 73.8% in the third quarter of 2023, the highest levels recorded since the series began in 2005 and 2008, respectively. Both indicators were close to their record levels...
As the year 2023 came to a close, the Albanian economy is doing better than expected from last year's forecasts. But it can be said that this pace does not match the expectations of small and medium businesses and citizens....
In clarifying the term strong economy, according to many definitions and criteria from most information, it is seen that it should summarize together: - High rate of economic growth. According to our commentary, this implies an expansion of economic output,...
Those who grew up in the former Yugoslavia remember a time when they lived well and could travel freely abroad. Nowadays many more people feel poor than are picked up by standard income-based measures. Poverty measurement based on official poverty lines...
