Open Data Albania has conducted a research on the number and causes of abortions in Albania. The gathered data for this indicator refer to all modes of pregnancy interruption, including spontaneous (involuntary miscarriage) and voluntary interruption (clinical intervention). Since 1994 voluntary abortion was legalized in Albania, reducing the cases of maternal mortality as a result of performing abortions in unsafe and primitive conditions. Abortion cases…
Birth rate over time, 1960 – 2009
Open Data Albania has conducted a research on birth rate in Albania for the period of time 1960–2009, based on World Banka data. Crude birth rate indicates the number of live births occurring during the year, per 1,000 population estimated at midyear. Year 2009 marks the lowest level of birth rate for Albanians, with 12.8 births per 1000 inhabitants. This indicator has been steadily declining,…
Malnutrition in children under age of five
Malnutrition is measured as the percentage of children under five who’s weight or height is more than two standard deviations below the corresponding median of the World Health Organization (WHO) international reference population. Open Data Albania has researched malnutrition in Albanian children, based on data obtained from World Bank and World Health Organization. Referring to the table below, it results that in 2009, the percentage…
Economic damages in the customs sector during 2005-2010
Open Data Albania has conducted a research about the economic damages in the customs sector during the period 2005-2010. Economic damages are caused in the customs sector as a result of actions: avoidance of customs duties and erroneous calculations of tariffs, the difference in calculating the customs clearance and transportation costs, reduction of fines values without legal basis; non application or poor application of penalties…
The structure of economic damages for operating expenditures, wages system, bonuses and other expenditures 2005-2010
According to the research of Open Data Albania, the economic damages caused in public administration is represented by the economic damages in the area of operating expenditures, wages system, bonuses and other expenditures. Economic damages noted in the area of operating expenditures results as a consequence of illegal actions such as travel expenses and per diem, expenses exceeding the limits for mobile and unjustified costs…
Compensation of economic abuse during 2005-2010
State Supreme Audit objective is the compensation of economic abuses. The level of realization of the compensations shows the responsibility of the public administration managers in exercising the obligations undertaken. State Supreme Audit provides measures for compensating economic damages aiming the smooth of the economic abuses through the collection of cash from entities who have committed financial misconducts. Other measures are organizational and administrative ones…
Eurobond effects on the cost of Public Debt
One of the main reasons of the issuance of the first Albanian Eurobond was to reduce the cost of public debt. Such a goal is also reflected in the Strategy of Public Debt Management of 2011, which is a document that is updated annually by the General Directorate of Public Debt Management. According to the Ministry of Finance, funds mobilized by the issue of Eurobonds,…