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Editorial: Economic salvation cannot depend on banks

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL In the midst of the public health emergency of the Covid-19 the horror of a severe and crippling economic crisis is just a few days away, when at the end of this month many salaries will go unpaid, rents uncollected and all sorts of small revenues that keep households and small businesses going come to a halt. Almost all will be struggling. The economic recession is coming all over the world however it is small and weak economies in transition such as Albania which are the most vulnerable. Therefore all eyes and ears were yesterday on the…

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