Author: Griselda Rruci

Open Data Albania has updated information on 2014 cash and cash equivalents. According to the Bank of Albania, current accounts and deposits with maturity of less than three months term, as well as gold and other precious metals held within the country and abroad are considered as cash equivalents. Source: Bank of AlbaniaComments and analyses: ODA In 2014, deposits in foreign banks amounted to ALL…

Open Data Albania is updating data on financial entities that are licensed by the Supervision Unit of Gambling in August 2015. This institution provides not only licenses, but it also supervises and controls the activities of entities dealing with gambling organization in the whole territory of the Republic of Albania. In August 2015, a total of twenty-two entities were licensed by the Supervisory Unit, namely…

Open Data Albania is updating data related to foreign exchange rate in 2014. The official exchange rate of foreign currencies to ALL is represented by a single value and is published by the Bank of Albania. In a country with a small and open economy just like ALL exchange rates plays a significant role in the price level and the balance of payments. A sustainable…

Open Data Albania is updating the number of Non-Profit and International Organizations operating in the Republic of Albania for 2014. According to Law no. 8788, dated 7.5.2001, a Non-Profit Organization (NPO) is a juridical association, foundation or center that doesn’t intend to extract profits and operates independently from the state and political influence of parties and mainly engages in activities that contribute to the public…

Open Data Albania is carrying out research concerning foreign nationals supplied with residence permits and that live and work in the Republic of Albania for 2011-2014 period. According to 2014 reports, 2054 foreign citizens have received permits from the National Employment Service i.e. 135 less than a year ago. In compliance with the national legislation, any foreigner provided with employment permit is liable to have…

Open Data Albania is updating its data on the number of marriages and divorces in compliance with the National Registry of Civil Status until 2014. In 2014, the number of marriages decreased by 0.2% compared with the previous year. While in a longer span (1990-2014) the number of marriages went down by 18%. So if in 1990, the number of marriages was twenty-eight thousand nine…

Open Data Albania has updated FDI according to the country of origin during years 2010-2013. Foreign direct investments are an important source of capital flows and economic development. They include investments of foreign individuals and institutions in the local economy, if the investment makes the investor owner of more than 10% of the capital of an enterprise. During the 2013 the county of origin of…

Open Data Albania has updated data regarding Foreign Direct Investment FDI by sectors of the economy 2010-2013. Foreign direct investments are an important source of capital flows and the development of an economy. Most of FDI in Albania in 2013 was constituted from the Transport, storage and communication sector (24%), followed by Financial and Monetary Intermediation (24%), extractive industry (22%) etc.Source: Bank of Albania Comments…

Open Data Albania has conducted a research on victims of road accidents by identifying child victims up to the age of 15 years old as well as driver victims, passengers or pedestrians. Statistics show that the number of accidents in which children under the age of fifteen years died, stand at levels of 20 to 30 accidents every year. The year with the highest number…

Open Data Albania has carried out a research on FDI in Kosovo by country of origin. The analysis focuses on data from the period 2007-2013. Foreign direct investments are an important source of capital flows and economic development. During 2013 the state of origin of most of FDI in Kosovo is Turkey with 82.8 million euros or 28% of the total. Other important countries with…

Open Data Albania has conducted a research related to loans of Other Depository Corporations (ODCs) in Kosovo in 2007-2013. The data used in the survey were obtained from the Central Bank of Kosovo. In 2013, total value of loans issued to businesses in Kosovo marked the value of 1.2 billion euros, while in the same year in the Republic of Albania this value was 2.8…

Open Data Albania has carried out a research on the gold reserves in Kosovo during the period 2009-2013. If we refer to quantitative terms, for the gold reserves in Kosovo, the amount calculated according to the measurement unit ounce, has declined in the years 2009-2012, respectively from 7,868 to 5,017 ounces. In 2013, this amount has increased compared to the previous year marking 6,831 ounces.…

Open Data Albania has conducted a research on the number of financial entities that are licensed by the Central Bank of Kosovo in 2010-2013. Financial entities that are licensed by this Bank are Commercial Banks, Pension Funds, Insurance Companies, Microfinance Institutions, Non-Bank Financial Institutions, money transfer offices, insurance intermediaries and foreign exchange offices. Commercial banks are banks that accept cash deposits or other repayable funds…

Open Data Albania has carried out a research on the External Debt of the Republic of Kosovo as an important part of the indicators of the Public Debt. Public debt, which is issued in the country and held by non-residents is called external debt. The External debt consists mainly in bilateral or multilateral financing agreements with international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund,…

Open Data Albania has conducted a research related to exports and imports by countries and the balance of trade in the years 2005-2013 in the Republic of Kosovo. The Balance of Trade measures the difference between the value of exports and imports of an economy. Exports represent the value of all goods and services sold abroad, while imports represent the value of all goods purchased…