Albania: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

March 10, 2005

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Albania: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed November 23, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix paper examines the issue of dollarization in Albania against the background of rapidly evolving banking, policy and prudential systems, and of growing importance of monetary policy as a tool for demand management. The period covered is 1998—the immediate aftermath of the pyramid scheme collapse—to the present, which is a period of impressive, though gradual, transformation rather than of abrupt structural changes. The paper also analyzes the poverty situation in Albania, and discusses the poverty alleviation mechanisms that have worked.

Subject: Balance of payments, Education, Monetary policy, National accounts, Poverty

Keywords: Albania, Banking sector, Central Asia, CR, Deposit rate differentials, Dollarization, Education attainment, Europe, Foreign currency, Foreign currency deposit, Income, ISCR, Middle East, Migration flow, Payments dollarization, Poverty line, Remittances, School expectancy, South America

Publication Details

Pages:

79
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2005/090
Stock No:

1ALBEA2005003
ISBN:

9781451800814
ISSN:

1934-7685

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