IMF Staff Country Reports

Albania: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

March 7, 2003

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Albania: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2003) accessed September 27, 2024

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This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix analyzes causes and consequences of real exchange rate appreciation in Albania. The paper highlights that Albania has experienced a sustained real appreciation since 1992, which appears to have been brought about by largely beneficial developments: price liberalization, productivity growth, external inflows, and a successful stabilization policy. The pace of appreciation has slowed in the last few years, and a real depreciation in 2002 has brought the real effective exchange rate back to its January 2000 level.

Subject: Economic sectors, Exports, Foreign exchange, Informal economy, International trade, Labor, Public employment, Real effective exchange rates, Real exchange rates

Keywords: CR, Enterprise, Europe, Exports, Firm timetable, Government, Government performance, Informal economy, ISCR, Private sector, Public employment, Public goods, Real effective exchange rates, Real exchange rates, Shadow economy need, Tax collection

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    76

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2003/064

  • Stock No:

    1ALBEA0022003

  • ISBN:

    9781451800715

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685

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