New Report Available: Albania Country Risk Report Q4 2015

Albania will remain attached to a relatively low growth trajectory over the coming years, amidst weak private consumption and government fiscal consolidation efforts.

More efforts need to be made to implement structural reforms aimed at tackling corruption and improving labour market flexibility, if Albania is to have any hope of converging with historically more developed regional peers.

Albania's large and entrenched trade balance shortfall will ensure that the country's current account remains firmly in deficit over the coming years.

Uncertainty in neighbouring Greece throughout the country's 2015 debt crisis will increase the scope for regional instability. It will also weigh on demand for Albanian exports to Greece and remittances inflows from Albanian workers based in Greece.

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Key Risks To Outlook

Flooding in February 2015 could weigh on real GDP growth more than we currently forecast. This could happen through two main channels. The first is that damaged agricultural crops could weigh on the incomes of the significant proportion of Albanians employed in the agricultural sector. The second is that the Albanian government may have to spend more money repairing flood damaged buildings and infrastructure. We wait before more data on the impacts of the floods becomes available before adjusting any of our forecasts.

The Albania Country Risk Report helps businesses with market assessment, strategic planning and decision making to promote growth and profitability in Albania. It is an essential tool for CEOs, Chairmen, Finance Directors/CFOs, Managing Directors, Marketing/Sales Directors with commercial interests in this emerging market.

An influential new analysis of Albania's economic, political and financial prospects through end-2019, just published by award-winning forecasters, BMI Research.

Key Uses

* Forecast the pace and stability of Albania's economic and industry growth through end-2019.
* Identify and evaluate adverse political and economic trends, to facilitate risk mitigation.
* Assess the critical shortcomings of the operating environment that pose hidden barriers and costs to corporate profitability.
* Contextualise Albania's country risks against regional peers using BMI's country comparative Risk Index system.
* Evaluate external threats to doing business in Albania, including currency volatility, the commodity price boom and protectionist policies.

The Albania Country Risk Report by BMI Research includes three major sections: Economic Outlook, Political Outlook and Operational Risk.

Economic Outlook:

How will the Albania' economic policy-making and performance impact on corporate profitability over 2015-2019?

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