Author: Griselda Rruci

Based on data from the Central Bank of Kosovo Open Data Albania has conducted a research related to FDI by sectors of the economy for 2007-2013. Foreign direct investments are an important source of capital flows and economic development. Most of FDI in Kosovo in 2013 consists in the real estate sector (35%), followed by construction (15%), transportation and telecommunications (14%), financial services (11%), energy…

Open Data Albania has conducted a research related to economic enterprises operating in the Republic of Albania according the legal form. This research is based on data from the National Registry of Enterprises, register that contains data from the General Directorate of Taxation; National Registration Center as well as statistical surveys from the Institute of Statistics. Enterprise as an economic term includes any entity that…

Open Data Albania has conducted a research on FDI in Kosovo and Albania, and the ratio or the share of Remittances to Foreign Direct Investment. Both these indicators are inflows in the balance of payments and are two important indicators for the growth of national economies. The data used were obtained from the Central Bank of Kosovo and the Bank of Albania. Source: Central Bank…

Open Data Albania has conducted a research related to foreign nationals who have residence permits to live and work in the Republic of Albania for the period 2011-2013. In 2013 in our country it is reported that two thousand one hundred and eighty-nine foreign nationals were given the employment permit from the National Employment Service. According to the national legislation, any foreign national who is…

Open Data Albania has conducted a research related to situations of road accidents in the Republic of Albania in 2013. During the year the majority of accidents on roads have happened in urban areas, respectively 1,386 accidents from 2,075 in total. In rural road there were recorded 686 accidents and 3 happened on the level grounds. Source: Ministry of Transport and InfrastructureComments and analysis: ODA…

Open Data Albania has conducted a research regarding reserves of gold and precious metals in Albania during the period 2007-2013. Reserves of gold and other precious metals include non-monetary gold, platinum and silver in the domestic or foreign banks vaults in a given moment of time. The data in the survey were taken from the database of the Bank of Albania. In 2013 the value…

Open Data Albania has conducted a research related to economic enterprises operating in Albania according to geographical origin of their ownership. This research is based on data from the National Registry of Enterprises. Enterprise as an economic term includes any entity that carries out an economic activity, whether these entities are domestically owned or not. In 2013, there were 106,429 active enterprises domestically-owned, 3,046 foreign-owned…

Open Data Albania has conducted a research related to economic enterprises operating in the Republic of Albania by the economic activity they pursue. Enterprise as an economic term includes any entity that carries out an economic activity, whether goods or services. Manufacturing enterprises are classified in “Agriculture, forestry, fishing”, “Industry” and “Construction”, while enterprises providing services are classified in “Trading”, “Accommodation and social service”, Transport…

Open Data Albania has updated data on road accidents happened in the country in the period 2009-2013. During these five years the number of road accidents has been increasing due to road signaling problems, lack of caution from drivers and pedestrians on the road etc. The only exception is the year 2012 during which the number of road accidents decreased by 0.3% compared with a…

Open Data Albania has updated data on the number of marriages and divorces listed in the National Civil Registry till the year 2013. In the past five years (2009-2013) the number of marriages has been decreasing to score in the last year an increase of just 4% compared to the previous year. So if year 1990 marked twenty-eight thousand nine hundred and ninety-two marriages, 2013…

Open Data Albania is exploring related to International Nonprofit Organizations operating in the Republic of Albania from 2005 to 2013. A Non-Profit Organization, according to the Law No. 8788, dated 7.5.2001 is a juridical person, foundation or center, which doesn?t aim to ensure profit and operates as independent from the state or political party influences and engages primarily in activities that contribute to the public…

Open Data Albania has conducted a research related to the economic enterprises operating in Kosovo according to the size and economic activity they exercise. An enterprise as an economic term includes any entity that carries out an economic activity. The data used in the research were obtained from the Statistical Register of Businesses in Kosovo. According to the size, enterprises in Kosovo are classified as…

Open Data Albania has updated data for 2013, regarding the cases of reporting and controlling of transactions with a suspicious financial source. During this year 34% of suspicious cases for money laundering are related to money transfers. 189 transfers are suspected to be involved with money laundering activity. “Cash deposits in considerable amounts” with 96 suspicious cases is another category of typology, “Operations outside the…

Open Data Albania is updating the data associated with cash and its equivalents for 2013. All accounts and deposits with maturity of less than three months, as well as gold and other precious metals held within and outside the country are considered equivalent to cash. Data related to cash and cash equivalents were obtained from the Bank of Albania as the main issuer of our…

Open Data Albania has conducted a research related to the actual budget of the Public Albanian Radio and Television in the years 2012 to 2013. Data of the research for Public Radio and Television were obtained from the catalog Spending Date Albania. All transactions with value, date, description of expenditure and beneficiaries are accessible through the application State Treasury Monitoring. A special characteristic for the…