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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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World Bank: Albania has region’s highest level of informal workers

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TIRANA, March 21 – A late 2015 nationwide campaign that Albania launched to tackle high levels of tax evasion, estimated at 30 percent of the GDP, managed to considerably reduce informality in

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IMF warns of new external, internal threats to Albania’s mid-term growth prospects

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TIRANA, March 21 – The International Monetary Fund has warned of a series of risks on the horizon facing Albania’s growth prospects, mainly related to developments in the EU, Albania’s key trading

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Higher tax burden led to lower fuel sales, traders complain

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TIRANA, March 20 – An increase in fuel prices triggered by rising tax burden on oil traders has led to a decline in domestic oil consumption, an indicator hinting the transport sector

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Another 22,000 Albanians applied for asylum in 2017 triggering concern on economy

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TIRANA, March 20 – The number of first-time Albanian asylum seekers to EU member countries dropped by about a quarter to 22,000 in 2017, but Albanians continued remaining on the top 10

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Albanian sheep, goats get green light for export to Serbia

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TIRANA, March 20 – Albanian sheep and goats and their meat have been given the green light to be exported to Serbia, penetrating regional markets for the first time following a 30-year

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Oil and mining industry struggles to recover following mid-2014 slump in commodity prices

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TIRANA, March 16 – The key tax that Albania collects from oil and mining operations in the country hit a seven-year low in 2017 despite commodity prices considerably recovering from the mid-2014

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Three state-run oil fields put up for auction

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TIRANA, March 15 – The Albanian government is offering three oil fields, currently managed by state-run Albpetrol oil company, to potential investors after taking them back under state administration last year. The

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Coastal area land registration controversially suspended to support strategic investment

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TIRANA, March 15 – The Albanian government has suspended the real estate registration process in coastal areas as part of a strategic investment law providing investors tax incentives and state-owned land in

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Municipalities fail to meet e-permit deadlines on constructions

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TIRANA, March 14 – Albania has made dealing with construction permits much easier in the past one and half years after it launched an electronic platform, but local government units issuing them

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Gov’t defies IMF warnings as way paved for new €244 mln PPP project

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TIRANA, March 14 – The Albanian government has paved the way for a new major public private partnership project as part of its ambitious €1 billion PPP program, defying warnings by international

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Vienna Institute revises down Albania’s growth, warns of long-run PPP risk

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TIRANA, March 13 – The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies has slightly downgraded Albania’s GDP growth forecast for the next three years and warned of the risks that the much-rumored public

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Business & Economy - Page 88

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

World Bank: Albania has region’s highest level of informal workers

IMF warns of new external, internal threats to Albania’s mid-term growth prospects

Higher tax burden led to lower fuel sales, traders complain

Another 22,000 Albanians applied for asylum in 2017 triggering concern on economy

Albanian sheep, goats get green light for export to Serbia

Oil and mining industry struggles to recover following mid-2014 slump in commodity prices

Three state-run oil fields put up for auction

Coastal area land registration controversially suspended to support strategic investment

Municipalities fail to meet e-permit deadlines on constructions

Gov’t defies IMF warnings as way paved for new €244 mln PPP project

Vienna Institute revises down Albania’s growth, warns of long-run PPP risk

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