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Concrete, Cocaine and Corruption: Albania’s Fragile Growth Model

Albania’s Concrete Economy: How Construction Became the Country’s Dominant Growth Model Tirana Times, July 10, 2026 – A booming construction sector has made Albania an outlier in Europe, but behind the cranes

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Austria Leads FDI, but Real Estate Tells the Bigger Story

Bank of Albania data show Austria topping first-quarter foreign investment flows, while property and construction continue to shape Albania’s FDI model. Tirana Times June 25, 2026 – The figures place Austria ahead

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Albania’s Missing Generation: A Country Losing Its Future Before 2050

Tirana Times, June 22, 2026 – Albania is no longer facing a normal demographic decline. It is facing the possible disappearance of the very generation on which its economic, social and political

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BoA: TAP, Devoll HPP projects boost Swiss, Dutch FDI to Albania

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TIRANA, Oct. 18 – Swiss and Dutch foreign direct investment in Albania have registered a sharp increase in the past couple of years thanks to two major energy-related foreign direct investment which

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State-run electricity companies face dire financial straits as costly imports continue

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TIRANA, Oct. 17 – Sporadic rainfall following one of the driest summers on record continues to negatively affect Albania’s wholly hydro-dependent domestic electricity generation, putting state-run electricity generation and distribution companies in

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New value-based property tax set to sharply increase bills for home owners

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TIRANA, Oct. 16 – The new property tax the Albanian government intends to apply next January on a value-based formula initially in Tirana and other main cities is set to sharply increase

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Inflation rate recovers by 1% in Jan-Sept

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TIRANA, Oct. 12 – Albania’s inflation rate picked up to an average of 2.1 percent in the first three quarters of this year, up 1 percent compared to the same period last

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IMF downgrades Albania’s mid-term growth prospects

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TIRANA, Oct. 12 – The International Monetary Fund has downgraded Albania’s mid-term growth prospects and expects the country’s economy to grow between 3.7 to 4 percent in the next five years. In

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Youth unemployment rises as Italian call center legal changes produce first blow for Albania

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TIRANA, Oct. 11 – Italian legal changes making the supply of inbound and outbound services for Italy-based companies from non-EU countries such as Albania much tighter starting April 2017, have had their

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VAT, property tax reforms lead to living cost worries

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TIRANA, Oct. 10 – Albanians will face higher consumer prices as the current 20 percent VAT system expands to small businesses and pay more under a new value-based property tax in 2018,

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Balkan Barometer: Unemployment, corruption remain top concerns for Albanian households

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TIRANA, Oct. 10 – Albanian households have become slightly more optimistic, but unemployment, the poor economic situation and corruption remain top concerns, and one out of two Albanians is considering leaving the

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Consumer price hike expected as gov’t announces plans to include small businesses in VAT system

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TIRANA, Oct. 5 – Prime Minister Edi Rama has announced small businesses will also be included in the value added tax system starting next year, a move which he justified with the

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Banks increase lending abroad as domestic credit struggles to recover

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TIRANA, Oct. 5 – Commercial banks operating in Albania continued to increase their lending abroad in the first half of this year when credit to domestic businesses and households slightly dropped, the

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Central bank, economy experts, opposition divided over PPP benefits

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TIRANA, Oct. 4 – Warnings by the International Monetary Fund over the threats some concessions and public private partnerships pose to the country’s public finances and the risk of creating new hidden

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Business & Economy - Page 103

Concrete, Cocaine and Corruption: Albania’s Fragile Growth Model

Austria Leads FDI, but Real Estate Tells the Bigger Story

Albania’s Missing Generation: A Country Losing Its Future Before 2050

BoA: TAP, Devoll HPP projects boost Swiss, Dutch FDI to Albania

State-run electricity companies face dire financial straits as costly imports continue

New value-based property tax set to sharply increase bills for home owners

Inflation rate recovers by 1% in Jan-Sept

IMF downgrades Albania’s mid-term growth prospects

Youth unemployment rises as Italian call center legal changes produce first blow for Albania

VAT, property tax reforms lead to living cost worries

Balkan Barometer: Unemployment, corruption remain top concerns for Albanian households

Consumer price hike expected as gov’t announces plans to include small businesses in VAT system

Banks increase lending abroad as domestic credit struggles to recover

Central bank, economy experts, opposition divided over PPP benefits

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