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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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EBRD downgrades Albania’s 2015 growth outlook to 2.3%

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TIRANA, Nov. 5 – Citing significant fiscal challenges, London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has downgraded Albania’s growth forecast for 2015 but revised it upward for 2016 on improved situation in

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Key rate cut to new historic low of 1.75%

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TIRANA, Nov. 4 – Albania’s central bank announced on Wednesday it has cut the key interest rate by another 0.25 percentage points, taking it to a new historic low of 1.75 percent

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Credit Agricole’s Albania unit rebranded as American Bank of Investments

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TIRANA, Nov. 4 – Credit Agricole Albania has been rebranded as Banka Amerikane e Investimeve (American Bank of Investments) after its takeover by a U.S.-based group earlier this year. The rebranding comes

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Albania gets lackluster 83rd spot in global prosperity index

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TIRANA, Nov. 3 – Albania improved its position in the 2015 Prosperity Index published by London-based Legatum Institute think tank by one place ranking 83rd globally, but yet leaving behind only Bosnia

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Central bank survey shows businesses, households face tough times

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TIRANA, Oct. 26 – While the Albanian economy recovered to moderate growth rate of 2.65 percent in the first half of this year, the business community continues facing tough times with lower

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Chinese consortium emerges as favourite for Spitalla park concession

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TIRANA, Oct. 28 – A Chinese consortium seems to be the front runner in the race to select an investor to build and operate a technological and economic development zone on a

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Trade gap slightly widens as exports drop 3.7%

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TIRANA, Oct. 28 – Albania’s trade gap slightly widened in the first three quarters when exports registered a moderate drop due to a sharp decline in international oil and base metal prices

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Property sales fail to recover

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TIRANA, Oct. 28 – Real estate agents continue struggling with property sales, with two-thirds of them saying they failed to sell any property in the first half of this year in a

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€1.4 mln in fines imposed in Sept. inspections

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TIRANA, Oct. 27 – Tax inspectors imposed fines worth 1.4 million euros on more than 4,000 businesses last September during field inspections in the first 23 days of the nationwide campaign against

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New customs scanning exemption costs to be handled by state budget

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TIRANA, Oct. 27 – Majority MPs have approved some changes to a concession deal with U.S.-based Rapiscan company, eliminating double payments for the compulsory scanning of goods in Albanian customs, which will

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Non-performing loans drop to €1 bln

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TIRANA, Oct. 28 – The write-off of 11 billion lek (Euro 77.6 million) in non-performing loans from banks’ balance sheets was key contributor to the reduction of the NPLs to 21 percent

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Business & Economy - Page 175

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

EBRD downgrades Albania’s 2015 growth outlook to 2.3%

Key rate cut to new historic low of 1.75%

Credit Agricole’s Albania unit rebranded as American Bank of Investments

Albania gets lackluster 83rd spot in global prosperity index

Central bank survey shows businesses, households face tough times

Chinese consortium emerges as favourite for Spitalla park concession

Trade gap slightly widens as exports drop 3.7%

Property sales fail to recover

€1.4 mln in fines imposed in Sept. inspections

New customs scanning exemption costs to be handled by state budget

Non-performing loans drop to €1 bln

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