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FDI heading for tough times as major energy-related projects near completion

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By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, Feb. 7 – Albania’s foreign direct investment is set to register a considerable boost in the next few years boosted by some major energy-related projects and a pickup in commodity prices but face headwinds by 2020 when key investments such as the Trans Adriatic Pipeline have been completed. The Devoll hydropower plant and TAP have been the main sources of FDI in Albania in the past couple of years following the mid-2014 slump in commodity prices paralyzing investment in the key oil and mining sectors and considerably affecting the country’s poorly diversified exports. With no new…

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