One year ago this week, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia experienced the heaviest rainfall on record in the past 120 years, triggering massive flooding in both countries. In the immediate aftermath, I...
Published in the Monitor Magazine on January 12, 2015. The next year is likely to bring economic gains for Albania. Growth has revived during the last months of 2014 due to improved credit growth, clearance...
Date: January 14, 2015Type: Opinion Language: English
This summer, a boat ride between the Komani and Fierza dams is as spectacular as ever. The ferry that I took two years ago is no longer there - local residents have switched to using an improved road network...
Date: August 20, 2013Type: Opinion Language: English
Helping the Roma people to climb out of poverty is not only the right thing to do, but also makes economic sense for Europe It was an impressive group of young men and women who gathered on Europe Day...
Date: July 17, 2013Type: Opinion Language: English
Group identity in the form of family, ethnicity, or gender is a powerful predictor of social preferences, as shown by theory and empirical work. In particular, people generally favor in-group over out-group...
Date: April 15, 2013Type: Opinion Language: English
Shekulli: Have you visited other cities [outside of Tirana] in order to discover this country in your own way? Kseniya Lvovsky: By now, I have visited virtually every part...
Date: February 13, 2013Type: Opinion Language: English
New Year festivities are around the corner. A magic time is, once again, upon us when people put behind the disappointments of the past to eagerly embrace a better promise of the next year. This time,...
Date: December 27, 2012Type: Opinion Language: English
With double-dip recession hitting the eurozone, leaders across Europe are rightly turning attention to restarting the growth engines of their economies. The continued eurozone turmoil has translated into...
Over the decade before the global financial crisis and the Eurozone turmoil hit, Albania made remarkable strides in reducing poverty. The share of individuals who consumed less than what is required...
Date: June 28, 2012Type: Opinion Language: English
Policy makers under pressure can get preoccupied with the fixation of the moment. For the eurozone, that idée fixe has been “the firewall”. How big is big enough? Who contributes and how? Now that the...
Date: April 16, 2012Type: Opinion Language: English
In palatial rooms at the Berlaymont, Brussels, EU finance ministers have been discussing how to save the Eurozone and balance growth with austerity. Across the globe in Mexico City, G-20 ministers have...
Date: March 8, 2012Type: Opinion Language: English
Ms. Lvovsky, you are Country Manager in the Tirana WB office and you have a long carreer in the WB. Can you tell us what is the key of your success? Answer: For me, the key is to enjoy what you are doing,...
Date: March 5, 2012Type: Opinion Language: English
1. What is the situation with prices especially food prices in the global markets? A few days ago the Bank published its Global Index Price, which is only 3 percentage points lower than the highest...
Date: February 22, 2012Type: Opinion Language: English
*As published on the Financial Times online on Tuesday, January 24, 2012For almost 60 years, Germans have maintained that it is their responsibility to participate in a modern Europe. Today, Germany’s...
Date: January 24, 2012Type: Opinion Language: English
The Spring Festival travel season, or chunyun, is back and a total of 3.1 billion trips are expected during the 40-day peak season. It's understandable that for many it is hard to get a train ticket as...
Date: January 13, 2012Type: Opinion Language: English
From cave drawings to navigational charts to GPS, people have created and used maps to help them define, order and navigate their worlds. Four hundred years ago, in the Age of Exploration, it was cartographers,...
Date: January 13, 2012Type: Opinion Language: English
He returned to Tirana after several years of studying and working as a licensed electrician in the UK, set up a small business of his own, and started a family. For some time, things worked well, it was...
Date: December 9, 2011Type: Opinion Language: English
Imagine if a city of almost four million people disappeared every year. A Los Angeles, Johannesburg, Yokohama. It would be hard to miss. Yet it goes largely unnoticed that almost four million girls...
Date: September 19, 2011Type: Opinion Language: English
The seaside of Ksamil, a small town south of Sarande, is one of the loveliest places on earth. A golden sand beach merges with strikingly blue waters half-ringed by gorgeous tiny islands. A...
Date: September 10, 2011Type: Opinion Language: English
1. The World Bank has established the office in Tirana since about 20 years now. What is the total of World Bank financing during all this years? Albania joined the World Bank in 1992. Since then, we have...
Date: July 27, 2011Type: Opinion Language: English
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