Albania : Joint Staff Assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Annual Progress Report
IMF Staff Country Reports, July 23, 2003
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- Authors: International Monetary Fund
- Published: July 23, 2003
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Executive summary and main findings
- Executive Directors commend the government for successfully completing the Living Standard Measurement Survey.
- There is a need to improve governance, and the fight against corruption has to be prioritized crosscutting all reforms in the strategy.
- Maintaining a stable macroeconomic environment requires a continuation of policies that ensure low inflation, and fiscal and external sustainability.
- The implementation of the National Strategy for Socio-Economic Development has been satisfactory.
- It is important to strengthen the government's capacity to formulate, implement, and monitor policies.
Policy recommendations and priorities
- Prioritize anti-corruption efforts as a crosscutting element across all reforms in the strategy.
- Continue policies that ensure:
- low inflation
- fiscal sustainability
- external sustainability
- Strengthen government capacity for:
- policy formulation
- policy implementation
- policy monitoring
Thematic focus areas
- Poverty reduction and Poverty reduction strategy
- Education
- Government governance and institutional capacity
- Monitoring and implementation of the National Strategy for Socio-Economic Development (NSSED), including NSSED indicators and NSSED targets