“Albania and crisis: what’s next?”

TIRANA, Dec. 12 – National and international experts of universities and academia, civic society, interest groups and policy makers are coming together this weekend to discuss Albania’s economic development of and its challenges in the context of global crisis. The two-day conference “Albania and crisis: what’s next?” organized by the private Mediterranean University of Albania (MUA), will open on Saturday afternoon, December 15th at the Sheraton Hotel where Dr. Anasatas Angjeli will elaborate on Albania’s growth challenges and the importance of revisiting its growth model. Other keynote speakers include Justin Yifu Lin, former World Bank vice president and chief economist, Economy Minister Edmond Haxhinasto, former IMF representative for Albania Volker Treichel, etc. The conference will continue on Sunday morning, December 16, at the premises of the Mediterranean University of Albania where the debt and financial crisis and their impacts on Albania’s economic development, structural reforms and priority sectors, migration and employment and the expansion of economic freedom will be discussed. The conference topic will be based on the analysis of three vulnerabilities of the economic development model at the global, European, regional and local contexts. The economic and financial situation of Albania will be addressed in connection with global and the Euro zone crisis and its future under the new economic perspectives.
The cases and experiences of the crisis in Greece, Spain and Italy will be treated and new ideas will be presented for the re-assessment of the economic growth model and the increase of competitiveness of the Albania economy, addressing the synergy between the economic growth, social development and employment.
Albanian migration flows and capitals will be analyzed based on the new implications created by the global crisis and in particular by the Eurozone. The conference will address social development as a development of a sustainable and competitive economic growth accompanied by the increase of the citizen’s access to public goods and services.